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Academic Perversions, Courtesy The Oxford DON-Keys
Photo courtesy A Chump at Oxford (1940), Hal Roach Studios starring Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy
American art historian and museologist Homa Nasab began her doctoral research at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, in 2004. Prior to joining the OI, she had been awarded three graduate degrees from Harvard University (Extension), Courtauld Institute of Art and the Department of History of Art at the University of Oxford… Today, Nasab, an institutional critic, is advised that the only way through which she ought to deal with Oxford is a human rights lawyer.
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Nasab is now writing a screenplay about her experiences in academia called The Don-Keys: an ode to the late Right Honourable Alan Clark’s The Donkeys (1961). A former minister in Margaret Thatcher’s government, Clark was the son and the brother of eminent art historians Sir Kenneth Clark and T.J. Clark. Drawing on the expression “lions led by donkeys,” The Donkeys criticizes the actions of British Army commanders during World War I. Clark’s book inspired a musical and later the movie Oh! What A Lovely War (1969). Directed by Lord Richard Attenborough, the movie stars Baron Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir Michael Redgrave, Dame Maggie Smith, Sir Dirk Bogarde, Sir John Clements, Sir John Mills, Colonel Sir Jack Hawkins, Sir Ian Holmes, and Dame (declined) Vanessa Redgrave …among others.
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Posted by Playhouse of the Muses
on 4/05
| tags: University of Oxford Tim Stanley Victoria & Albert Museum Homa Katouzian Edmund Herzig
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Q&A with Dutch Artist Bas 'The Boss' de Wit
In his hilarious, slightly ominous & politically incorrect fashion, Dutch artist Bas de Wit turns our Q&A upside down. In response to who have been the "Most influential - person, character, artist, filmmaker, writer, etc -" in your life, the artist sites his "Top 100 Most Influential People’s List (starting with…):
Thomas Edison, Christopher Columbus, Martin Luther, Galileo Galilei, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Ferdinand Magellan, Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Thomas Jefferson, William Shakespeare, Napoleon Bonaparte, Zheng He, Henry Ford, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Nicolaus Copernicus, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Albert Einstein, Mohandas Gandhi, Kublai Khan, James Madison, Simon Bolivar, Mary Wollstonecraft, Guglielmo Marconi, Mao Zedong, Vladimir Lenin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Alexander Graham Bell, Rene Descartes, Ludwig van Beethoven, St. Thomas Aquinas, Abraham Lincoln, Michelangelo, Vasco da Gama, Suleyman the Magnificent, Samuel F.B. Morse, John Calvin, Florence Nightingale, Hernan Cortes, Joseph Lister, Ibn Battuta, Zhu Xi, Gregor Mendel, John Locke, Akbar, Marco Polo, Dante Alighiere, John D. Rockefeller, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Niels Bohr, Joan of Arc, Frederick Douglass, Louis XIV, Nikola Tesla, Immanuel Kant, Fan Kuan, Otto von Bismarck, William the Conqueror, Guido of Arezzo, John Harrison, Pope Innocent III, Hiram Maxim, Jane Addams, Cao Xueqin, Matteo Ricci, Louis Armstrong, Michael Faraday, Ibn-Sina, Simone de Beauvoir, Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi, Adam Smith, Marie Curie, Andrea Palladio, Peter the Great, Pablo Picasso, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Phineas T. Barnum, Edwin Hubble, Susan B. Anthony, Raphael, Helen Keller, Hokusai, Theodor Herzl, Queen Elizabeth I, Claudio Monteverdi, Walt Disney, Nelson Mandela, Roger Bannister, Leo Tolstoy, John von Neumann, Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Jacques Cousteau, Catherine de Medicis, Ibn-Khaldun, Kwame Nkruma, Carolus Linnaeus...
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Posted by Playhouse of the Muses
on 12/22/11
| tags: dutch artist Bas de Wit Netherlands Holland sculpture painting
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Charlotte Gainsbourg will be on Jury Duty @ the BERLINALE 2012
The daughter of French singer Serge Gainsbourg and British actress Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg is no stranger to performance arts. She made her first film as a teenager in Parole et Musique (Love Songs, 1985; directed by Élie Chouraqui). Gainsbourg went on to work with such prominent filmmakers as Agnès Varda, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Jacques Doillon, Eric Rochant, Bertrand Blier and Andrew Birkin.
In 2009, she won the Best Actress Award at Cannes for her role in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist. Most recently she starred in L’Arbre (The Tree, 2010, directed by Julie Bertucelli) and in Melancholia (directed by Lars von Trier), which won the 2011 European Film Prize for Best Film.
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Posted by Playhouse of the Muses
on 12/21/11
| tags: Charlotte Gainsbourg festival 2012 film Berlin Berlinale
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Rob Reiner to direct George Clooney in a stage reading of (Proposition) "8"
When thinking about theatre, in or out of Hollywood, heartthrob George Clooney’s name does not appear anywhere on one’s list of considerations. However, the director of the Ides of March and the star of The Descendants will appear in a one night (only) reading of the play “8” at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre (in Los Angeles) on March 3, 2012. Written by Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk Dustin Lance Black, “8″ is a response to the federal trial that overturned Proposition 8 (California Marriage Protection Act) thus eliminating the rights of same-sex couples to marry.
Posted by Playhouse of the Muses
on 12/18/11
| tags: George Clooney Rob Reiner Proposition 8 theatre
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Cinematic Jewels in Elizabeth Taylor's Life
Aside from the rich cinematic legacy that Elizabeth Taylor left behind, her greatest contribution to humanity – the most precious jewel in her crown – was the establishment of The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, in 1991. The Foundation’s mission has been “to raise funds and awareness to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS, and to provide assistance for those living with the virus. With its focus on direct care and prevention education, ETAF provides funding to AIDS organizations throughout the world, providing support services to populations in needs.” Two decades in existence, ETAF has raised more than $250 million since its founding. Parts of the proceeds of yesterday auction at Christie’s will be contributed to Taylor’s AIDS Foundation.
Posted by Playhouse of the Muses
on 12/14/11
| tags: elizabeth taylor cinema Christie's auction AIDS Foundation
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The Adlon, Berlin's Most Cinematic Hotel
David Lynchin the Presidential Suite of Hotel Adlon Berlin, 2006 - Photo courtesy Deutsche Nachrichten Agentur
From a historical perspective, Hotel Adlon in Berlin is one of the most glamorous purpose-built hotels in Germany. Certainly, there are numerous Schlosses and villas turned hotels, or part-time residences, for affluent clients throughout the country. However, very few can compete with the Adlon’s dramatic, or shall we say cinematic, history.
Since its founding in 1907, the hotel has embodied standards of luxury in mythic proportions. In its early years, the Adlon was host to Emperor Wilhem II, the Tsar of Russia, the Maharajah of Patiala, as well as such historic figures as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Marlene Dietrich and Charlie Chaplin. However, perhaps the most famous star who put the Adlon on the international cultural map was the Swedish film actress Greta Garbo.
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Posted by Playhouse of the Muses
on 12/12/11
| tags: Berlin germany cinema Grand Hotel Kempinski Hotel Adlon
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Q&A with American Artist Sarah Dueth
Artist’s statement - I am a mother, a wife, a friend, a daughter, a sister, and an artist. I have painted for more than half of my life. I am lucky, lucky to have found an outlet that is so honest, addictive, and inspiring to me. Painting has enabled me to learn what is truly important in my life. Painting has led me to create/choose a better life, healing old wounds, and diving into the new, unknown paths of an exciting, magical future. Painting has helped me recognize my deep inner strength.
Favourite movies & directors - I have been enjoying the more magical, side of the movie world, Alice In Wonderland, Harry Potter, Edward Scissorhands (as I can enjoy this with my son), but also a fan of movies with serious sides like Shawshank Redemption, or movies with brilliant costumes/set, Elizabeth, The Golden Age. The visuals and story lines in all of these movies inspire me to want to keep creating…
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Posted by Playhouse of the Muses
on 12/10/11
| tags: american contemporary Sarah Dueth artist
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