{"id":5603,"date":"2017-08-05T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=5603"},"modified":"2017-08-05T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:21:09","slug":"weekly-round-up-8-5-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/08\/05\/weekly-round-up-8-5-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Round-Up, 8-5-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, scholars! Today we look at some sizzling hot takes, looted and fairly acquired art, and more. Read on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Love the book, hate the fanfare:<\/strong> Associate professor of English at Montclair State University and <em>The Atlantic<\/em> contributor Patricia A. Matthew discusses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2017\/07\/on-teaching-but-not-loving-jane-austen\/534012\/\">her mixed feelings on Jane Austen<\/a>, her work, and the admiration the author often stirs in lovers of literature.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/393527\/metropolitan-museum-greek-vase-looted\">2300-year-old Greek vase depicting the college-favorite Dionysus <\/a>has been relinquished by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the authorities after learning that the piece had been stolen some 40 years back in Italy.<\/li>\n<li>Rembrandt&#8217;s <em>Abraham and the Angels<\/em> (now on view in the Frick Collection), alongside other Abraham-centered works created over the course of the artist&#8217;s career, reveal the artist&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdjewishworld.com\/2017\/07\/31\/rembrandts-abraham-and-the-angels-at-the-frick\/\">dedication to exploring all of the facets of the patriarch&#8217;s life<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hot take:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/24\/well\/family\/instead-of-dumbing-down-shakespeare-smarten-up-the-kids.html\">Kids can handle Shakespeare<\/a> in all his filthy, 16th-century glory. (Parents who agree may consider bringing their children to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/07\/22\/weekly-round-up-7-22-17\/\">Shakespeare on the Common<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>100 years have passed since a silent protest parade took place on Fifth Avenue in New York, during which 10,000 African-Americans&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/article164116762.html\">W.E.B. Du Bois among them<\/a>&#8211;marched in what would become a milestone in the civil rights movement. This year, on July 28th, protesters who participated in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibe.com\/2017\/07\/nyc-silent-protest-art-walk-1917-silent-parade\/\">The People&#8217;s Silent Protest Art Walk<\/a> decried the same kinds of injustices that Du Bois witnessed in his time and that carry on today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 377px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/bnr9bv\/picture164116752\/alternates\/FREE_1140\/protestpic\" width=\"367\" height=\"231\" alt=\"The original silent protest in 1917 in response to the East St. Louis riots. (via Library of Congress)\" class=\"\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original silent protest in 1917 in response to the East St. Louis riots. (via Library of Congress)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There you have it! We hope the upcoming week is filled many knowledges and ice cold beverages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, scholars! Today we look at some sizzling hot takes, looted and fairly acquired art, and more. Read on: Love the book, hate the fanfare: Associate professor of English at Montclair State University and The Atlantic contributor Patricia A. Matthew discusses her mixed feelings on Jane Austen, her work, and the admiration the author often [&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\/5603"}],"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=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5604,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions\/5604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}