Variety is the word

One of those newsrounds full of unrelated news today. The most interesting news item today has already been posted anyway.

First of all we read about an exhibition by Sriwhana Spong, an artist whose art is made with ordinary objects:

Sriwhana Spong, already an award-winning young artist, has a show called Candlestick Park at the Anna Miles Gallery until May 27. She, too, concentrates on objects but uses them in a variety of media. The objects evoke her past and also convert her present reality into art. [...]
Sticks from Spong's garden are polished and delicately painted to transform them into something with a history, although we would have difficulty associating them with Wuthering Heights, to which we are told they refer.

We hope the delicacy doesn't get into their look or it won't feel like Wuthering Heights.

We can't get hold of the article since it can only be viewed by subscription but we get a glimpse of famous actress Famke Janssen confessing to being a true Brontëite - nothing she has never said before: her favourite writers are Charlotte and Emily Brontë and Jean Rhys.

In an article that California inhabitants will understand better, the author ends up by rhetorically asking - as in who cares if - this highly disturbing question:

What if Emily Bronte was heavily into bondage?

And finally there are people out there who really don't know what they are saying:

A lot of the righteous condemnation aimed at movie-musicals conceals an unfortunate snobbery. Why does no one make a fuss when an adaptation of a book like Jane Eyre or Little Women opens?

Well, they don't if the musical is up to scratch. But - believe us - they most certainly will if it isn't!

Categories: In_the_News, Brontëites, Art-Exhibitions