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Tag: 11.26.13
Unknown Canvas By Constable Discovered At V&A Museum
“A previously unrecorded oil sketch by British artist John Constable has been discovered at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The painting, of trees underneath an unsettled sky, was found concealed beneath a lining canvas on the back of Branch Hill Pond: Hampstead, another work by the English Romantic painter.”
Barnes & Noble Posts Profit Despite Falling Sales
“Barnes & Noble Inc, the largest U.S. bookstore chain, on Tuesday reported a higher than expected quarterly profit as it cut store workers’ hours scaled back its money losing Nook business, helping it offset sharp sales declines … [of] 8 percent.”
The Struggle Facing Broadway’s Latest Terrific Musical
‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder opened last week to some of the best reviews of the fall, but now comes the hard part: increasing its ticket sales. [The show] lacks big-name stars and songwriters who can generate buzz, and it isn’t adapted from a popular film with a built-in fan base like many modern Broadway musicals.”
Meet The Woman Who Knew Mahler And Kafka
Alex Ross recounts a visit with 110-year-old Alice Herz-Sommer, a former pianist who is the world’s oldest living Holocaust survivor, who met Gustav Mahler as a child, and who played Beethoven for Franz Kafka after a family Seder.
Race And Gender In Angry Birds
(Yes, you read that headline correctly.)
Backstage At The Old Vic’s Create-Six-Plays-In-24-Hours Festival
The director of the project announces to the assembled artists, “The writers will begin writing at midnight, and will have roughly six hours to make a play about 10 to 15 minutes long, each with about four actors. They then go to bed and you guys come back in the morning. You rehearse from about nine to seven – and then we open the house to 1,000 people.”
Why Some People Find Video Games Where You Shoot At People So Addictive
Psychologists believe that the games collectively called “first-person shooters” – Call of Duty, Battlefield, Doom and the like – induce in players (strange as this might seem to anti-violence folks) that state Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls “flow”.
Two Oscar Favorites Lead Independent Spirit Award Nominations
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave leads the field with seven nominations, followed by Alexander Payne’s Nebraska with six. The two films face each other in the best feature, director, lead actor, and supporting male and female actor categories.
So What’s In That Long-Lost Orson Welles Film Discovered In Italy This Summer?
Richard Brody: “The film was intended to serve as prologues to the three acts of Welles’s stage production of the play Too Much Johnson … [It] is far more than a curiosity; it’s a major rediscovery, one that deeply traces the roots of Welles’s art, both stylistically and thematically.”