October 30, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmVictoria and Albert Museum’s "Hollywood Costume" exhibition features costumes from the Ransom Center The rich history of costume design and its most visionary personalities takes center stage in Hollywood Costume, the latest exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, which opened October 20. Some of Hollywood’s most iconic characters are the focus of the exhibition, which spans a century of… read more
July 12, 2012, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsIn the Galleries: John Speed’s Postdeluvian Genealogy from the First Edition of the King James Bible Historian John Speed (1542–1629) worked with Hebrew scholar Hugh Broughton to create a 36-page genealogy to accompany the first printing of the King James Bible. The genealogy traced “euery family and tribe with the line of Our Sauior Jesus Christ obserued from Adam to the Blessed Virgin Mary.” Speed’s genealogy… read more
June 27, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmIn the Galleries: Robert De Niro’s King James Version-inspired tattoos in "Cape Fear" The 1991 Martin Scorsese–directed thriller Cape Fear may seem an unlikely candidate for documenting the use and influence of the King James Bible, but its central character, Max Cady, as played by Robert De Niro, wielded biblical verses like weapons. This aspect of Cady was absent in both the original… read more
