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Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Henson, Briefly
Coverage on the Henson controversy from the New York Times, the BBC and the Guardian (UK).
Posted at 2.26 pm in /Politics
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Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Beckett, Day by Day
This online exhibition from the Staats- und
Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky is a fascinating
illustrated version of the daily journal that Samuel Beckett kept during
his first visit to the German city from October through December 1936. The
day-by-day presentation chronicles Beckett's interest in a
hurricane that swept through the city during his stay, as well as his
wanderings through several art galleries. He records his admiration for
paintings by Emil Nolde, Schmitt-Rottluff, Otto Dix and others. Works by
many of these artists were hidden away by curators and others as
representative of "degenerate" art, as the Nazis characterized it, and
Beckett had to ask museums and galleries to be shown these in person;
creation, exhibition and possession of these works would in a few years
mean arrest.
The exhibition also features fine photographs from the period, as well
as a virtual "Kunsthalle" featuring art that Beckett saw during his
visit. Admission is delightfully free; the Web site, once again, is here.
Posted at 1.27 pm in /Miscellaneous
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