{"id":5594,"date":"2017-07-29T21:04:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T01:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=5594"},"modified":"2017-07-29T21:04:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T01:04:08","slug":"weekly-round-up-7-29-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/07\/29\/weekly-round-up-7-29-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Round-Up, 7-29-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh hello, scholars. This week we take a look at some dead people heads, share some relationship advice, and offer an Instagram account to spice up your feed. Read on!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over at Stanford University, celebrations of the 200-year anniversary of Jane Austen&#8217;s death continue as a professor and two doctoral students take a look at &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/2017\/07\/27\/stanford-literary-scholars-reflect-jane-austens-legacy\/\">one of the biggest literary figures in English<\/a>,&#8221; focusing on her popularity, her place in the literary canon, and her style of prose.<\/li>\n<li>The Laurence Hutton Collection, located at Firestone Library at Princeton University, contains the death masks of <a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/2017\/07\/27\/out-from-behind-this-mask\/\">iconic figures like Walt Whitman and Isaac Newton<\/a> as well as a cast of Goethe&#8217;s right (write) hand. This funerary practice was especially popular during the 19th and early 20th centuries, during which celebrity cults and physiognomy saw their rise in American and European culture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4308\/35351942553_c1364d7ef5_b.jpg\" width=\"287\" height=\"369\" alt=\"They saved Walt Whitman's brain (uh, head).\" class=\"\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">They saved Whitman&#8217;s brain (uh, head). Cast by Samuel Murray with the help of Thomas Eakins. Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.princeton.edu\/libraries\/firestone\/rbsc\/aids\/C0770\/\">Laurence Hutton Collection<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Foolproof way to force someone to love you:<\/strong> Co-star with them in a performance of <em>A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream<\/em>. So say the four starring actors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/24\/theater\/you-create-that-chemistry-how-actors-fall-in-instant-love.html\">Shakespeare in the Park&#8217;s production of the Shakespearean play<\/a>, which runs from July 11 to August 13 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park (for free!). As the actors discuss the chemistry that they &#8220;make&#8221; if it does not exist naturally, <em>New York Times<\/em> contributor Alexis Soloski notes &#8220;how strange and funny it is that actors&#8217; bodies have to substitute for the bodies of their characters&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fun fact:<\/strong> Emily Dickinson, in addition to her love of poetry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2017\/05\/23\/emily-dickinson-herbarium\/\">had a passion for botany<\/a>, visible in her <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herbarium\">herbarium <\/a>in which 424 flowers had been carefully arranged by the poet&#8217;s hand. Today, the fragile book is held\/guarded by Harvard University&#8217;s Houghton Library.<\/li>\n<li>Similar to the Twitter account Tabloid Art History (@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TabloidArtHist\">TabloidArtHist<\/a>), which we covered in an <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/01\/13\/5221\/\">earlier Weekly Round-Up<\/a>, Instagram account @<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/youngthugaspaintings\/\">youngthugaspaintings <\/a>compares hip hop artist Young Thug to such works in the art historical canon as Sandro Botticelli&#8217;s <em>The Birth of Venus<\/em> and Rembrandt van Rijn&#8217;s <em>Nicolas Berghem<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/i-d.vice.com\/en_gb\/article\/this-instagram-account-compares-young-thug-to-historical-paintings\">among others<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8;line-height: 0;margin-top: 40px;padding: 50.0% 0;text-align: center;width: 100%\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0;padding: 0 4px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BIdk3IADevf\/\" style=\"color: #000;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 17px;text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\">The birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (1484-1486)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 17px;margin-bottom: 0;margin-top: 8px;overflow: hidden;padding: 8px 0 7px;text-align: center\">A post shared by Young Thug as paintings (@youngthugaspaintings) on Jul 29, 2016 at 3:27pm PDT<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for this week! Don&#8217;t forget to check back next weekend for moooooreneeeews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh hello, scholars. This week we take a look at some dead people heads, share some relationship advice, and offer an Instagram account to spice up your feed. Read on! 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