“Young people like to play, so if you can make the material they’re trying to learn more kinesthetic, it helps it to stick a bit better. It’s a way to transform the classroom into a living, breathing art, so that it becomes a part of them, as opposed to material that they’re supposed to absorb and spit back out.”
Tag: 08.06.17
After 51 Years, Uncensored Version Of Joe Orton’s ‘Loot’ To Be Staged For First Time
If you know much about Orton, it won’t surprise you that “before its West End debut in 1966, [his] play fell foul of the lord chamberlain, who removed scenes that hinted at homosexuality and mocked the church and police.” The original version of the piece premieres next week in London to mark the 50th anniversary of Orton’s murder by his lover.
How Do Looted Antiquities End Up At Museums Like The Met And The Getty, Anyway?
Noah Charney, co-editor of the Journal of Art Crime, fills us in on the tombaroli (Italian tomb looters who emerged in the 1970s), how they get their looted antiquities onto the market (the story has a villain named Medici), and how museums do (or don’t) check the objects’ provenance.
Cleveland Museum Of Art’s Director Wants To Pull In A Million Visitors A Year
“William Griswold, the museum’s ebullient and well-liked director and president since August, 2014, says his goal is to engage a larger and more diverse audience. And he sees no reason why the museum can’t achieve annual attendance of 1 million – a sizable increase over the average of 650,000 over the past three years, and the 707,000 visitors the museum drew in 2015-16, which included its centennial year.” Griswold tells Steven Litt how he plans to do it.
In Search Of The Lost Sylvia Plath Novel That We Know Exists
“While the hope for new finds continues unabated, one known text eludes all who seek it. In the summer of 1962, Plath began work on her second novel. We know what it was about—a fictionalized autobiography in the vein of The Bell Jar about an artist who discovers her husband has cheated—and we know that she completed a number of pages of the book before her death. But in the years that followed, the manuscript for Double Exposure vanished.”
Ty Hardin, Who Carved A Niche Playing ‘Bronco,’ Has Died At 87
Long after Bronco, Hardin got in trouble with the I.R.S., and then, “while living in Prescott, Ariz., he formed an anti-tax, anti-government protest group that evolved into the Arizona Patriots militia movement, which was accused in 1986 of planning to blow up an I.R.S. complex in Utah.”
The Movie ‘Dunkirk’ Is Inspiring A Tourism Boom In Northern France
In Dunkirk, Nicolas Idasiak “spends 90 minutes daily showing visitors around town in a tour based on the Hollywood hit. The walk stops every few minutes along the beach and outside nondescript houses — spots where the movie was filmed.”
If Amazon Is Going To Have A Drone Delivery Army, It’ll Need A Drone Repair Platoon As Well
Drone infrastructure update, ahoy: “In this new filing, the company provides a thumbnail sketch of how its system works right now: products are manufactured, brought to a fulfillment facility, from which they’re dispatched to a customer.” Yes, drones are going to buzz back and forth from moving vehicles … or at least that’s one plan.
This Show Lost One Emmy Nomination After A Costume Controversy Erupted
Basically, the nominators made a rookie movie for the show This Is Us, and they submitted an episode that takes place more in the past than in the present. (In a peculiarly appropriate move, House of Cards will take its place.)
What Happened To ‘Detroit’ This Weekend?
The movie collapsed in a wider release. But why? After all, Zero Dark Thirty was just as bleak if not bleaker, and that movie did just fine in wider release. Here are a few reasons this movie fell off the face of the moviegoing earth.