A two-story library and conservation facility has opened within the ancient Coptic monastery complex at Deir al-Surian in the Egyptian desert. The archives there “include the earliest dated Christian literary manuscript (AD411), the earliest dated Biblical manuscript (AD459) and the earliest dated Gospel manuscript (AD510).”
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Dominic Dromgoole To Leave Shakespeare’s Globe In 2016
“Dominic Dromgoole has announced he is to step down from his position as artistic director at Shakespeare’s Globe … He will leave the company on April 23, 2016 after a decade in the post. This will coincide with the end of a global, two-year tour of Hamlet, which the London venue announced this week.”
Things Are Getting Better For Black Actors In Britain, Says David Harewood
“‘There’s something particular about the European experience,’ [a respected director] said. I don’t think you’d quite understand.’ Thankfully, those days have largely gone, at least in the UK; audiences are quite used to seeing black actors in anything from Edwardian comedies to Victorian dramas, contemporary writing as well as revered classics.”
David Lynch Was Traumatized By A Disney Song
“The cerebral Lynch has a very personal relationship with music, so much so that The A.V. Club was requested to refrain from actually saying the title ‘It’s A Small World’ throughout the entire interview. A code word for the song, ‘Flappy,’ was predetermined before the interview.”
How Ballet Is Like Porn, According to Tamara Rojo
Both are all about the male gaze, says the former star and current director of English National Ballet: “Female sensitivity is different, dnd there are issues that I want to see on stage approached by women. Very often we see relationships approached from a male perspective. Like in porn, it shapes the way you look at things.”
Canadian Painter Alex Colville, 92
“Colville had been a pre-eminent figure on the Canadian art scene since the Second World War, when he was a war artist and chronicled the Canadian assault on Juno Beach in France.”
After A Summer Of Fantasy Blockbusters, Reality Intrudes
“While Hollywood still loves the summer escape movie, sophisticated real-life dramas are filling up the latter part of the year, attracting top-flight stars and directors and finding a niche with audiences continually wired into unfolding news events.”
Too Big To Fail – Have We Been Over-saturated With Blockbuster Movies?
“Blockbuster cinema may have finally reached the point where it’s eating itself. With something new and exciting every week, the turnover has become so rapid that it’s almost ridiculous.”
Attention William Blake Fans: Want To Own His House?
The estate agent describes the property, priced at £650,000, as: “A most picturesque 17th century brick-and-flint period cottage … set in a sheltered walled garden in the heart of the old village within 250 yards of the foreshore.”
Falling To Pieces – Fragmented Fiction Puts It Together
“The comparison with musical polyphony is fitting because, as with the counterpoint, the voices in these recent novels are made to fit together with a virtuosity akin to that demonstrated by the great contrapuntal composers. Instead of ‘messy cacophony’ these novels delight with their complicated coherence.”