Festivals and Culture
An Excerpt From Digging Up The Dead; A History of Notable American Reburials
Relocation and reburial (or 'translation' of a body, to use the traditional, Latin-derived word) are invariably all about the resurgence of the reputation of and hence respect for someone whose lamp and visage had dimmed in some way. more »
Facebook Famine Ends with Celebration of Empty Calories
But unlike face to face communication, I think online communication can only take relationships so far. It is ambient awareness that helps connect people, but not truly connect with people the way that face to face communication does. more »
Textile Exhibits, The British Quilt, 1700 - 2010 and Japanese Sashiko Textiles
Jo Budd’s diptych was bathed in soft light, accentuating the stitches and ripples, the shadows and softly curvaceous contours of ‘Female/Summer’. In ‘Virtue and Virtuosity’, Dinah Prentice was installing ‘Billowing Maenads’, seductively draping and illuminated against the peachy tones of the walls. We have won over the lighting engineers who want to know more about the Mary Parker quilt made from silk ribbons from the 1720-40s. more »
Making Movies: Brutal killings are not to be presented in detail; revenge in modern times must not be justified
Making Movies: Brutal killings are not to be presented in detail and revenge in modern times must not be justified. more »
