New site. New blog?
After far too long, as you can now see, we have finally re-launched our website. The process has involved a tricky transition from a previous developer and a previous CMS. So now we are faced with how best to use this new blog, and whether we need to transition to a new approach. I intend to offer some thoughts about that over the holiday weekend, but just a way of easing myself back into contributions – which I intend to be as regular as I can make them – here are some links to stuff that has engaged me over the past week.
The “starting over” image above comes courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, and its wonderful open access policy towards reproductions. It is a detail of the gelatin silver print ‘About to Start’ by Geldolph Adriaan Kessler, taken in the United States in 1908.
• The Bard is back: Luke McKernan revives his invaluable site highlighting notable Shakespeare adaptations on YouTube and Vimeo.
• Our daily barbarisms: Leo Hurwitz’s Strange Victory (1948): David Bordwell on the DVD re-issue of an urgent compilation documentary with troubling resonances today.
• Jan Nemec, 1936-2016: Michael Brooke at Sight & Sound pays tribute to a key talent of the Czech new wave.
• Everything that is suffocating about French film, in one French film: Richard Brody for The New Yorker skewers Arnaud Despleschin’s latest feature My Golden Days.
• The Royal Court at 60: look back in wonder: terrific Guardian feature by Chris Wiegand about notable productions in Sloane Square since 1956; some glorious production images too.
• Imaginary spaces: Andrew O’Hagan for The New Yorker on the great stage designer Es Devlin.
• Murder in Mayfair: in the latest London Review of Books Peter Pomarantsev reviews Luke Harding’s book about the Litvinienko affair.
• In the capital of Europe: Ian Buruma’s essential report from Brussels for the New York Review of Books.
• Will the Brussels Attacks Tip the Brexit Scales?: an interesting ‘outsider’ view from
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