“If even Marshall McLuhan, the 20th century expert on the merging of media and politics, would require a crash course in Twitter, Facebook and “The Apprentice,” how could we expect Shakespeare to shed light on this reality TV star turned standard-bearer of the GOP?”
Tag: 05.26.16
Dublin Is Losing Its Artists. Here’s Why
“Dublin is again renewing a chronic pattern of hemorrhaging its artists. Many of Irelands most important artists – Dorothy Cross, Alice Maher, or James Coleman – have born the brunt of the Dublin property market, lost their studios, and subsequently moved out. Very few established artists remain here. And right now the sense is that, just as my own generation are attempting to consolidate firm working arrangements in the city, we are being forced out too.”
Sydney Theatre Company Director Quits After Just 9 Months On The Job
Jonathan Church “has stepped down from the post in Sydney, stating that he had not been able to do the role alongside his other ventures. The outgoing Chichester Festival Theatre had already announced his own production company, Jonathan Church Productions. Earlier this week, the company announced its first production.”
Asian-American Actors Speak Out About “Whitewashing” In Hollywood
“The mainstream Hollywood thinking still seems to be that movies and stories about straight white people are universal, and that anyone else is more niche. It’s just not true. I’ve been watching characters with middle-age white-guy problems since I was a small Indian boy.”
The Redemption Of David Hume
“In 2009, he won first place in a large international poll of professors and graduate students who were asked to name the dead thinker with whom they most identified. … This is quite a reversal of fortune for Hume, who failed in both of his attempts to get an academic job. In his own day, and into the nineteenth century, his philosophical writings were generally seen as perverse and destructive.”
Botticelli In Hell: The First-Ever Illustrated Version Of ‘The Divine Comedy’
Yes, that’s exactly what the artist (and his Medici patron) set out to do circa 1490. While he never completed the project (he evidently felt as unequal to the task of depicting Paradise as Dante did), quite a number of his illustrations have survived.