Earlier this month, a jury found Hugo Ihosvany Rodriguez not guilty of the alleged rape of a fellow Ballet San Antonio dancer in March of 2017. He was still being held for trial on a separate charge involving another woman later the following July. Last week, that case was quietly dismissed due to a missing witness.
Tag: 11.23.18
Peeling Back The Paint (Virtually) On Brueghel’s Paintings
“What would happen if you peeled back the layers of a masterpiece by one of art history’s greatest painters? Dead bodies might suddenly appear. Take, for example, Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s large-scale festival scene, The Battle Between Carnival and Lent.”
EU Set To Double Its Culture Spending
“European politicians have added an extra billion Euros to the EU’s proposed culture budget for its next funding round, meaning that the current allocation would double from 2021. … The new position would take funding for the Creative Europe programme from the €1.4bn currently available to €2.8bn for the years 2021-27.”
Arts Columnist For Britain’s Daily Telegraph Found Dead At Age 33
Florence Waters had been reported missing last Monday; her body was discovered outdoors on Thursday evening. An artist in her own right, Waters had contributed articles to the Telegraph on books and film as well as visual arts, and she was previously the paper’s online arts editor.
Is Shame A Sign Of A Failure Of Moral Standards?
Most philosophers agree that shame is about failing to live up to our moral ideals, but stories such as Lucy Grealy’s and others’ seem not to fit this definition. For example, it’s common for people who suffer from mental illness to feel shame. People who experience povertyfeel shame because of it. It’s also common for women to feel shame more often than men, and for black people to feel shame more often than white people. To argue that all these people must feel shame because, deep down, they feel like moral failures, we’re assuming that entire populations are suffering from delusion. Maybe the problem isn’t that these cases are irrational. Maybe the problem is that shame isn’t about ideals in the first place.
Human Rights Activists, Citing Pablo Neruda’s Rape Of A Maid, Protest The Naming Of An Airport After The Poet
Neruda, in his memoir, described raping a maid when he was in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in 1929: “After the woman ignored his advances, Neruda says he took ‘a strong grip on her wrist’ and led her to his bedroom. ‘The encounter was like that of a man and a statue. She kept her eyes wide open all the while, completely unresponsive,’ he recalled. ‘She was right to despise me.'”
How Did ‘The Favourite,’ One Of The Year’s Most Original Screenplays, Ever Get Made?
The original screenplay for this movie, centered around three women leads in early 18th-century England, was written two decades ago. But getting financing? Hm. “It was very difficult … because not only was it a story where there were three female leads, but there was also a gay angle. There was always interest, but it wasn’t an easy pitch.”
What Did British Theatre Do During – And For – The First World War?
It started with recruiting: “Music hall stars of the day such as Marie Lloyd, Phyllis Dare and Vesta Tilley believed they were doing their bit for the war effort by exhorting – and sometimes shaming – the men in the audience into joining up. ‘We don’t want to lose you / But we think you ought to go,’ went one not very subtle refrain.”
What Drives The Art Auction World
In the big sales, financial guarantees do – so that the New York art world can feel reassured it’s moving at least $2 billion worth of art.
The World’s Greatest Song Partnership Is Three Decades In, With No Signs Of Stopping
Christian Gerhaher, a baritone, and pianist Gerald Huber, who have performed together for 30 years, “have become bywords for sensitivity, cerebral depth and seeming perfection in a lieder repertory that they have made their own.”