The Morgan Library in New York has reopened the McKim Building containing, among much else, a Dante lunette which is also the basis for an ornament on sale at their shop.
Contributed by Patrick Molloy
A. R. Gurney, “Office Hours” (2010)
“A.R. Gurney resurrects the culture clash over dead white males in his latest play, Office Hours, a wispy but congenial comedy structured as a series of tutorials tied to classical literature’s greatest hits. The play, which opened on Thursday night at the Flea Theater in a production directed by Jim Simpson, makes a gentle plea for the enduring worth of Homer, Dante, Shakespeare and the rest of the dear, derided DWMs as writers whose works illuminate everlasting problems of human life, even the lives of disgruntled feminists and deranged veterans of the Vietnam War.” [. . .] –Charles Isherwood, The New York Times, September 30, 2010
Meghan Healey, “Subterraneo: A Cruel Puppet’s Guide to Underground Living” (2010)
“…The piece is a puppet mash-up of Dante’s Inferno and real-life subway stories gathered by Ms. Healey and a half-dozen student volunteers at Queens College, where she is an assistant professor of costume and scenic design.
Plans call for Homeless Bob to guide the Commutrix — an earnest rider not unlike Ms. Healey — through the subway the way Virgil led Dante through the nine circles of hell, from Limbo to Betrayal. Along the route, they will be serenaded in Spanish by the Undead Mariachi Trio and watch beggars like Legless Joe bewail their afflictions to tug on the heartstrings and purse strings of weary commuters.
Depending on the scenes, to be written by Ms. Healey and several collaborating playwrights, Homeless Bob will be funny, friendly or furious. ‘I think of him as a modern-day New York Virgil, if Virgil was homeless in New York,’ Ms. Healey, 34, said. ‘He’s not as benevolent. He’s angry.'” [. . .] –David Gonzalez, The New York Times, September 17, 2010
Sotheby’s “Divine Comedy” Exhibition (2010)
A detail from “Mankind’s Eternal Dilemma — the Choice Between Vice and Virtue” by Frans Francken the Younger, circa 1633
“…Now Sotheby’s is encroaching on dealer territory yet again but in a slightly different way. This month it is opening ‘Divine Comedy,’ an exhibition of some 75 works organized around the theme of Dante’s epic poem.
The show, on view from Sept. 30 through Oct. 19, will include about 75 works dating from the first century to the present and culled from collectors, artists, dealers and foundations.” [. . .] –Carol Vogel, The New York Times, September 9, 2010
“For Mets, Gloom and Doom…”
“‘Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.’ That’s what I would write if I felt like paying $395 for a commemorative brick outside the Mets’ ballpark. That sentiment from the poet Dante Alighieri’s Inferno is applicable to the new baseball season, normally a time of hope, but not in Queens, not this year and maybe not anytime soon.” [. . .] –George Vecsey, The New York Times, April 2, 2010
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