{"id":5590,"date":"2017-07-22T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=5590"},"modified":"2017-07-22T20:01:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T00:01:32","slug":"weekly-round-up-7-22-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/07\/22\/weekly-round-up-7-22-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Round-Up, 7-22-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scholars? Is that you? Sorry, we can&#8217;t see so well in this blinding sun that has been so persistent this week. Not that we&#8217;re complaining (actually, we are; we are book-dwellers who screech when exposed to the light of the sun). Anyway, here are the weekly links.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The MoMA has released a digital exhibition of<em> Entartete Kunst,<\/em> or the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/calendar\/exhibitions\/3868\"> &#8220;degenerate art&#8221; that was condemned by the Nazi regime<\/a>. Part of the museum&#8217;s Provenance Research Project, the exhibition consists of works that derive directly from MoMA&#8217;s collection of art.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> A rather gory letter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddillingworth\/status\/888197355089960960\">from Virginia Woolf<\/a> addressed to her mother, written at the age of six.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One of two surviving letters Virginia Woolf wrote to her mother. She was six years old. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/om0Hy9Rel0\">pic.twitter.com\/om0Hy9Rel0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dustin Illingworth (@ddillingworth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddillingworth\/status\/888197355089960960\">July 21, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/artery\/2017\/07\/21\/shakespeare-boston-common-guide\">Shakespeare on the Common<\/a> takes place on the Boston Common through August 6. This year&#8217;s performance (which is free to attend!) is <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, put on by the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company.<\/li>\n<li>Did you know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/why-paradise-lost-translated-so-much-180964137\/\">John Milton&#8217;s <em>Paradise Lost<\/em> was once translated onto toilet paper<\/a> by Yugoslav communist politician Milovan Djilas during his nine-year imprisonment? This act as well as a number of attempts to censor the work around the world point to the little-known political side to<em>Paradise Lost<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelangelo vs. Raphael:<\/strong> A Renaissance artistic rivalry for the ages. Seems Michelangelo was <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/5-greatest-art-rivalries-993350\">more than a little peeved<\/a> at the youthful upstart. Raphael, meanwhile, responded in the only way artists know how.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2017\/06\/Raphael_School_of_Athens_Michelangelo.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"289\" alt=\"A moody Michelangelo, by Raphael in his work School of Athens. (via Artnet)\" class=\"\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A moody Michelangelo, by Raphael in his work <em>The School of Athens<\/em>. (via Artnet)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Have you had your fill of weekly knowledge? Come back next weekend for another dose of Core-related insights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scholars? Is that you? Sorry, we can&#8217;t see so well in this blinding sun that has been so persistent this week. Not that we&#8217;re complaining (actually, we are; we are book-dwellers who screech when exposed to the light of the sun). Anyway, here are the weekly links. The MoMA has released a digital exhibition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6590,2671],"tags":[48685],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5592,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590\/revisions\/5592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}