12.20.08		11.22.08
	Religulous A new film by director Larry Charles, Religulous documents the travels of comedian Bill Maher as he interviews a variety of scholars, politicians, religious leaders, and average people about the current state of religion. Despite being labeled a documentary, the film only strives to...  continue		Artists Selected for 2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial Maine's Portland Museum of Art has announced the artists chosen for their exhibition, the 2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial. A panel of jurors culled 28 pieces from the 3,800 submitted artworks. Of the 970 contributing artists, who hailed from...  continue
	10.27.08
	Four centuries later, it seems difficult to think of an epic poet as an unlikable fellow. Yet John Milton (1608-1674)—the blind, regicidal Puritan who spent his free time with heroic couplets—was not one to make friends. A king put a price on his head, publishers refused to attach his name to his works, and—perhaps most insultingly—a latter-day reader of Paradise Lost mustachioed his likeness. These historical morsels are often lost in the canonization process, through which the personalities and identities of deceased authors are mostly synthesized with their works. So it is perhaps with these oversights in mind that The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City—the public home of J. P. Morgan's library and antiquities collection—presents John Milton's Paradise Lost, a new exhibition on view through January 4th...  continue
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