Members of the Elmira College Community Perform A Revised Version of “A True Story”
In September 2019, the Elmira College community performed a revised version of “A True Story”
Author: Jan Kather
Twain-inspired Video by Jan Kather finalist for Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Contest
Vote for Jan Kather’s Video Submission to the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship’s 2019 “Who Wrote Shakespeare? Video Contest
EC Actors Participate in Upcoming Theatrical Production at Quarry Farm
Twain-inspired theatrical production takes place Wednesday, May 29 at 5:30p.m. at Quarry Farm.
“The Obscenest Picture The World Possesses”: A Twainian Homage to John Berger, George Michael, David Bowie, Prince
On exhibit on the terrace level of Elmira College’s Gannett-Tripp Library is an oil painting titled Head of Titian’s Venus 2015 by Elmira artist Dan Reidy. The large scale oil painting references the famous Venus of Urbino, a 1538 oil painting by Italian master Titian that was described by Mark Twain in A Tramp Abroad (1880) as “the foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world possesses.” Unlike Twain, Reidy focuses on Venus’s gaze, rather than […]
Mark Twain & Controversial Art
Last year American artist Charles Ray created a stir with his commissioned figurative sculpture Huck and Jim. Originally meant to be permanently installed along New York City’s High Line in the public plaza outside the new Whitney Museum, art critic Jerry Saltz informs us that Ray’s proposal was declined because the work would “offend non-museumgoing visitors.” Saltz goes on to explain that Huck and Jim is “a 21st-century sculptural masterpiece…. a classically traditional Western figurative […]