In Brief
Turns Out Derrida Has Always Been Incomprehensible
Not only did Derrida do poorly on his Shakespeare essay: he also went on flunk his university entrance exams, which he had to take three times.
Shakespeare
News
Mysterious Engravings Question Authorship of Shakespeare's Works
William Shakespeare was a commoner who wrote witty plays attended by Queen Elizabeth. Sir Francis Bacon was a noble who served as her Attorney General. Right?
Art
An Exhibition Brings Us Face to Face with the War on Terror
LONDON — Outside The Mosaic Rooms, a small gallery and cultural center in Kensington, a red and white-striped air sock hangs improbably from the otherwise uniform stone façade.
Art
How Looking for Ciphers in Shakespeare Shaped Modern Codebreaking
The theory that statesman and scientist Francis Bacon was the ghostwriter behind Shakespeare, and embedded the Bard's plays with ciphers, had a major influence on modern cryptography.
Art
Two NYC Macbeths and the 1849 Riot Sparked by Their Rivalry
This week the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, announced that its Digital Image Collection is now under a Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Performance
Kenneth Branagh's Stab at the Bloody Business of Macbeth
Thunder and rain hurtle over the violent, staged sorrow of this new spectacle of Macbeth, installed heath and all in the gaping drill hall of the Park Avenue Armory.
Art
The Impossible Joy of Finding Meaning
BERKELEY, California — Ratio 3 gallery's new show of work by Lutz Bacher is a must see. The large, skylight-lit, raw gallery space is perfect for Bacher's captivating installation of audio, visual, and sculptural work. Upon entering the gallery one immediately focuses on the small black spheres scat
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Ravishing Shakespeare Portrait on View in NYC
Even though we all think we know what Shakespeare looks like from our middle school Hamlet textbooks, only one portrait was (probably) painted in the writer's lifetime. In this singular work now on view at New York City's Morgan Library, Shakespeare is a total 17th century hottie with glowing skin,