Mantel’s multi-award-winning novel about Thomas Cromwell will be part of a trilogy. The second volume, titled Bring Up the Bodies and concentrating on the downfall of Anne Boleyn, will appear next May. Part Three, The Mirror & the Light, will recount Cromwell’s own ruin and execution.
Tag: 11.17.11
The Torah – Is It Mosaic, Or A Mosaic?
“In a marriage of traditional biblical scholarship and the latest in computerized textual analysis, a team of Israeli scholars has … [given further support to] a scholarly consensus that the Torah, traditionally attributed solely to Moses, is based on two primary sources.”
Salzburg Festival Commissions Four New Operas
“The Salzburg Festival has embarked on an ambitious program to commission contemporary work under new artistic director Alexander Pereira. New operas will be coming from composers György Kurtág, Marc-André Dalbavie, Thomas Adès and Jörg Widmann, Pereira announced Thursday.”
Unknown Tagore Manuscript Discovered
“A rare notebook, unheard of before, belonging to Nobel laureate and Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore will be auctioned in New York in December. … It contains 12 hand-written Bengali poems and 12 lyrics for Bengali songs.”
Sedition: A New Platform For Limited-Edition Digital Artworks
The venture “has signed up some impressive names, including Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Shepard Fairey. These artists will produce pieces in editions of between 2,000 and 10,000, which are numbered, signed and sold for between $8 and $800, with Sedition taking a cut of the revenue.”
#OccupyWallStreet Vs. #TeaParty – A Twitter Comparison
“Those tweeting about the Tea Party emerge as a tight-knit ‘in crowd’, following one another’s tweets. By contrast, the network of people tweeting about Occupy consists of a looser series of clusters, in which the output of a few key people is being vigorously retweeted.”
Is It Time For A New Black National Anthem? Asks Touré
“I love ‘Lift Ev’ry Voice,’ it’s a moving song, but it was written in 1900 and chosen by the NAACP to be the Negro National Anthem in 1919, and there may be another song that expresses who we are now a little more sharply.” (He suggests on old Marvin Gaye tune.)
British Theatre’s Champion Canine
“He has never missed a performance, been hailed as a ‘joy to work with’ by his current co-star Su Pollard and is expected to set a world record next week for his 50 years-plus in show business.”
What Should Dance Critics Be Writing About?
“Modern dance is becoming an increasingly threatened medium, and it needs attentive, educated critics…”
The Worldwide Museum Battle Over Antiquities
“The majority of museum directors agree that the next crucial matter for the AAMD is finding a solution that deals with these works, specifically those collected between 1970 and the present. But no one is ready to outline what that solution may look like.”