Today’s roundup includes questions on a museum item’s authenticity, the final resting place of a monarch’s bones, and more –all below the jump!
Old Man in an Armchair (1652)
Photo: National Gallery, London (via artnet.com)
For years, experts at the British National Gallery have believed that Old Man in an Armchair is not a genuine Rembrandt –just a painting from one of his many followers. That belief has recently been challenged by leading Rembrandt expert Ernst van de Wetering.
After much deliberation following the discovery of Richard III’s remains in 2012, the monarch’s bones will finally be interred at Leicester Cathedral.
Book Expo America is tomorrow, but there is still time to sign up! If you live in or around New York City, you may want to consider registering for the event.
For poets in the UK and Ireland, the Poetry Book Society is searching for the “Next Generation” of poets, and are asking for submissions. Read the eligibility requirements here.
Thanks to the tireless curating done by OpenCulture, thirty-three classic short stories by legendary science-fiction author Philip K. Dick have been made available in ebook and audiobook forms –for free!
In Britain, American classics like To Kill a Mockingbird and The Crucible have been part of the school reading list for years. That is about to change, as the reading list is excising these texts in an effort to make English Literature studies more…English.
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