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Archaeologists Claim Pig Painting in Indonesian Cave Is World’s Oldest Figurative Artwork
By Alex Greenberger for ARTnews As a craze for contemporary figurative painting continues on in the art world, archaeologists have uncovered what may be the world’s oldest representational artwork. In a new study published on Wednesday by Science Advances, a team of experts claims that a pig painting discovered in a cave in Sulawesi, an … Continue reading
A Midsummer Night’s Sax Comedy: The Return of the Lost Shakespeare Jazz Musical
By James Shapiro for The Guardian It had the hottest musicians, the coolest singers – and Louis Armstrong playing Bottom. But Swingin’ the Dream was a $2m flop. Can the RSC breathe new life into this big band take on the bard? When Swingin’ the Dream opened on Broadway on 29 November 1939, the creators … Continue reading
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Pioneering Writer’s Life
By India Office Records for The British Library Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Britain’s greatest woman poet, changed the course of literary history not only as a pioneering, modernising writer, world famous in her day, but as an influential political campaigner. Born in 1806 in Coxhoe Hall, County Durham, she died in 1861 at Casa Guidi, her … Continue reading
Megha Majumdar: ‘Books do nothing for a lot of people’
By Anthony Cummins for The Guardians The author of acclaimed debut novel A Burning on how being an editor informs her writing, and why her childhood alerted her to literature’s limitations. Megha Majumdar grew up in India before moving to the US at the age of 19 to study at Harvard. Her debut novel, A … Continue reading
The Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture on 3.3.2021
By Nina Dubin, Meredith Martin & Madeleine Viljoen for Bard Graduate Center Nina Dubin, Meredith Martin, and Madeleine Viljoen will present at the Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture. Their talk will be followed by a moderated conversation and Q&A session. “Fortune and Folly in 1720: Picturing … Continue reading
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