{"id":5553,"date":"2017-06-17T17:33:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T21:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=5553"},"modified":"2017-06-17T17:33:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T21:33:41","slug":"weekly-round-up-6-17-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/06\/17\/weekly-round-up-6-17-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Round-Up, 6-17-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hellooo and welcome to the Weekly Round-Up, the weekly installment of Core news and articles of interest from around the web. We&#8217;re your host, the Core Blog. Let&#8217;s get started!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Actor and ex-hobbit Martin Freeman hopes to bring John Milton&#8217;s &#8220;epic, exciting, and surprisingly modern&#8221; <em>Paradise Lost<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/tv\/global\/sherlock-hobbit-martin-freeman-paradise-lost-tv-1202464040\/\">to a TV screen near you<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Unable to make the trip to the Vatican to witness the Sistine Chapel for yourself? Fear not, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityguideny.com\/article\/up-close-michelangelo-sistine-chapel-oculus-westfield\">an exhibition closer to home<\/a> may satiate your interest. &#8220;Up Close: Michelangelo&#8217;s Sistine Chapel,&#8221; a touring exhibition of reproductions of such works as <em>The Creation of Adam<\/em> and <em>The Last Judgment<\/em>, visits the Westfield World Trade Center in New York City for a month beginning June 23.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 339px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/18\/Last_Judgement_%28Michelangelo%29.jpg\/800px-Last_Judgement_%28Michelangelo%29.jpg\" width=\"329\" height=\"362\" alt=\"Where's Waldo for the Renaissance age.  Via Wikimedia Commons.  (Public Domain)\" class=\"\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Where&#8217;s Waldo<\/em> for the Renaissance age. Via Wikimedia Commons. (Public Domain)<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rembrandt in China:<\/strong> The National Museum of China in Tiananmen Square in Beijing presents <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2017-06\/17\/c_136373035.htm\">works by Dutch artists Rembrandt and Vermeer<\/a> in what is being lauded as the largest exhibition artwork from the Dutch golden age in Chinese history.<\/li>\n<li>Germany&#8217;s first liberal Muslim mosque, the Rushd-Goethe mosque, opened amidst controversy, criticism, and police protection this Friday, June 16. The mosque <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germanys-first-liberal-mosque-opens-in-berlin\/a-39281805\">takes its name from the German poet Goethe<\/a> and the twelfth-century polymath Ibn Rushd (also known as Averroes).<\/li>\n<li>Remember that we mentioned the Public Theater&#8217;s recent depiction of Shakespeare&#8217;s <em>Julius Caesar<\/em> with the titular character resembling <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/06\/10\/weekly-round-up-6-10-17\/\">a certain president of ours<\/a>? Turns out hate mail has found its way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/lifestyle\/style\/2017\/06\/16\/knives-are-out-for-theaters-that-bear-name-shakespeare\/BjIuTepxxULJHZvTAQmF6H\/story.html\">a variety of unaffiliated Shakespeare companies<\/a>, including the nearby Shakespeare &amp; Company in Lenox, Massachusetts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this week! We hope to see you e x t r e m e l y soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hellooo and welcome to the Weekly Round-Up, the weekly installment of Core news and articles of interest from around the web. We&#8217;re your host, the Core Blog. Let&#8217;s get started! Actor and ex-hobbit Martin Freeman hopes to bring John Milton&#8217;s &#8220;epic, exciting, and surprisingly modern&#8221; Paradise Lost to a TV screen near you. 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