Presenting the inaugural weekly round-up of links! In this newest addition to the Core blog, we gather the latest in Core-related news, events, and insights from around the Internet.
- Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016. Prof. Christopher Ricks, Dylan expert as well as Core professor, must be thrilled.
- Satan in a jumpsuit: Winsome Brown’s performance “Hit the Body Alarm” combines Milton’s “Paradise Lost” and Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” with two original monologues.
Image by Theo Cote for the New York Times
- Norm MacDonald, comedian, ex-SNL cast member, and now author of memoir entitled “Based on a True Story,” professes his love of Chekhov. “I like the endings where nothing happens.” Don’t we all?
- Sady Doyle cites Mary Wollstonecraft as a woman “we love to hate, mock, and fear” in her book Trainwreck.
Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie/National Portrait Gallery, London, via DeAgostini/Getty Images (detail)
- The First Horizons of Juno, an art show at MASS Gallery in Austin, TX, closes October 22. Juno references not the Roman goddess of Aeneid fame, but a subject that may interest our Natural Science students–NASA’s Juno Mission. The exhibition explores a future in which a alien people explore “their beginnings … clues to their origin and … things made by their ancestors.” Time for a road trip?
- Closer to home, the MFA’s exhibition Ruined: When Cities Fall ends this Sunday, October 23. Focusing on “scenes of ruin and devastation,” 40 images of the fallen cities of Rome, Palmyra, and even Boston after the great fire are on view.
Francis Frith, The Ramesseum of El-Kurneh, ThebesFirst View (Fallen Colossus of Rameses), 1857. Photograph, albumen print. Lucy Dalbiac Luard Fund.
That’s it for our first installment of the Core Weekly Round-Up! Email us interesting Core-related articles, news, or other odds-and-ends at core@bu.edu.
