{"id":5582,"date":"2017-07-08T18:10:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T22:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=5582"},"modified":"2017-07-08T18:11:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T22:11:03","slug":"weekly-round-up-7-8-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/07\/08\/weekly-round-up-7-8-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Round-Up, 7-8-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings Corelings old and new, just born and one foot in the grave. Even those Core animals, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/av\/core\/journal\/xxvi\/Almanac.pdf\">of which there are many<\/a>. Gather &#8217;round for this week&#8217;s installment of news and articles of interest!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On this day:<\/strong> Artemesia Gentileschi was born today, July 8, in 1593. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/av\/core\/journal\/xxvi\/Cubbage.pdf\">Read about her life and art<\/a> in a piece by Core scholar Caroline Cubbage entitled &#8220;Appreciating Artemisia,&#8221; included in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/core\/community\/the-core-journal\/xxvi\/\"> this year&#8217;s Core Journal<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Classicist Sarah Ruden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/arts-culture\/2017\/07\/05\/augustine-gets-makeover-new-translation-he-hardly-needed-it\">translates Augustine&#8217;s <em>Confessions<\/em> from the original Latin<\/a> in a way that separates the text from the Doctor of the Church&#8217;s religion. Writer Elizabeth Bruenig weighs the author&#8217;s word choices against past translations and finds Ruden&#8217;s Augustine to be &#8220;a dreamer, an artist, [and] a poet&#8221; rather than the saint molded by later forms of Christianity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>This week in What Is Even Happening Anymore:<\/strong> You may have read about recent shenanigans involving Hobby Lobby and 5,500+ artifacts &#8220;acquired&#8221; from Iraq. In short, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/05\/nyregion\/hobby-lobby-artifacts-smuggle-iraq.html\">mistakes were made<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Imagine Chekhov, but with a lot more puppets. <em>Suitcase and the Lapdog<\/em> is an adaptation of the play <em>The Yalta Game<\/em>, which in turn is an adaptation of <a href=\"https:\/\/financialtribune.com\/articles\/art-and-culture\/67900\/puppets-perform-suitcase-lapdog\">Anton Chekhov&#8217;s short story &#8220;The Lady with the Dog.&#8221;<\/a> Under the wing of writer\/director Albert Beygjani, the Deemak Theater Group will perform Suitcase &amp; Lapdog at Tehran City Theater in the Iranian capital through July 21.<\/li>\n<li><em>Noah&#8217;s Beasts: Sculpted Animals from Ancient Mesopotamia<\/em> is an exhibition at the Morgan Library &amp; Museum in New York City that highlights<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorgan.org\/exhibitions\/noahs-beasts\"> rare, millennia-old artifacts<\/a>, including a 1646 B.C. clay tablet that relates a similar, earlier version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antediluvian\">diluvian <\/a>tale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 336px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.themorgan.org\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/exhibitions\/noah-lion.jpg\" width=\"326\" height=\"298\" alt=\"This counts as a Core animal. Via The Morgan Library &amp; Museum.\" class=\"\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes, this counts as a Core animal. Via The Morgan Library &amp; Museum.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>All right, pack it up. That&#8217;s all we got today. Now scram. (Please come back next week.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings Corelings old and new, just born and one foot in the grave. Even those Core animals, of which there are many. Gather &#8217;round for this week&#8217;s installment of news and articles of interest! On this day: Artemesia Gentileschi was born today, July 8, in 1593. 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