NY Times, Bruce Weber, June 4, 2014 Maxine Greene, a teacher and education theorist who promoted the arts as a fundamental learning tool and in nearly 50 years at Teachers College, Columbia University, became its resident Pied Piper, known for her persuasive scholarship, her vivid writing and her imbuing teaching with a spirit of endless adventure, died on May 29 […]
NY Times Book Review By NOAH MILLMAN MAY 29, 2014 Who is the American Shakespeare? The question has an odd, anxious quality that it wouldn’t quite have if applied to Germany, say, or Russia. It’s not just that in those cases, there is an answer ready at hand (Goethe, Pushkin), but that in the international context we know what the question […]
Emma Brown, The Washington Post May 28, 2014 Maya Angelou, a child of the Jim Crow South who rose to international prominence as a writer known for her frank chronicles of personal history and a performer instantly identified by her regal presence and rich, honeyed voice, died May 28 at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C. She was 86. Her literary […]
Esther Zuckerman, The Wire May 14, 2014 Today we got our first glance at Michael Fassbender’s Macbeth, in the form of a poster out of Cannes. Of course, Fassbender is not only the latest star to play the Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, but also the latest member of the X-Men to play the part. As others have realized—and McKellen himself […]
Open Culture May 15, 2014 Even from just what we’ve posted about Salvador Dalí, you can tell he had a mission to spread his distinctive sensibility far and wide: he made films with Luis Buñuel, collaborated with Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock, showed up for Andy Warhol’s “screen tests,” and illustrated some of the best-known texts in western history, like Dante’s Divine Comedy, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Shakespeare’s Macbeth.All those projects […]
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