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...featured. Characters meet at the Faculty Club—“a handsome Georgian Revival building with a grey slate roof”—and the Fogg Art Museum, where, in real life, Cornwell has helped bring paintings by the man she claims was Jack the Ripper. And of course, the token Harvard student answers a question with “unnecessary snottiness...
...listening of the year so far.Girl Talk: “Night Ripper”Mashups have been enjoying success over the last few years, but most people have considered them novelties; if they were art, they were of the moustache-on-Mona-Lisa variety. Enter “Night Ripper,” an ultra-tight 40 minute survey of pop music, 5 seconds at a time. Restlessly shifting beats, melodies, and vocals, there are enough ideas here to create hours and hours of lesser music. Instead, 250-some samples are fired off as quickly as they can be identified...
Cornwell first became interested in this mystery in 2001 when she had a conversation with a Scotland Yard investigator in London about Jack the Ripper. As she researched Sickert’s work, she became more and more disturbed by his live subjects’ “dead” appearance and his other paintings of actual murder scenes...
Cornwell added that Sickert was “in the right place at the right time for these murders to have occurred,” and that he had a strange fascination with Jack the Ripper. At one point, he created a painting in which the murderer appeared in front of a backdrop of Sickert’s own bedroom...
Cornwell said that such “circumstantial” evidence, while not substantial enough to prove that Jack the Ripper and the artist are one and the same, is important when added to scientific evidence...