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...thriller/crime drama concerning the infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper. Although the Victorian era legend needs no real introduction, for those living in a cultural vacuum, the story is as follows: From Aug. 7 to Nov. 10, 1888, at least seven prostitutes were methodically murdered and mutilated in the Whitechapel district of London’s East End. It was the first instance of a serial killer in the modern Western world, and absolutely unique because of the case’s circumstances. Each woman was “done” in the same manner (slit across the throat...
...assigned to lead the investigation into what would became infamously known as the Ripper Murders. What the Hughes fictionalize is Jack’s targeting of a group of six sisterly “unfortunates”—one of whom is Heather Graham—in Whitechapel, tempting them with grapes and dulling their senses with laudanum-laced absinthe before doing the ghastly deed. He’s an aristocrat, a member of the Freemasons and enlists a chauffeur to aid in his occasional excursions. However, we don’t know exactly who he is, only...
...Smith Gryphon. The tome purports to offer the authentic contents of a journal penned by the legendary London killer who slashed his way into infamy over three months in 1888 by murdering and mutilating at least seven and perhaps as many as 14 prostitutes in the city's tawdry Whitechapel district. The published edition promises to include a facsimile of the Ripper's confessional document, a transcript and material authenticating that the book is the work of Jack himself. Bill Waddell, curator of Scotland Yard's closed archives, says, "The evidence is unique. It cannot be dismissed...
Scully is 44, a pale, knobbly-faced Irishman who was born in Dublin, studied in London and since 1975 has lived in New York City. The show of his work that is currently traveling in Europe (it has already been at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, is now at Munich's Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and will go on to Madrid in September) is not a retrospective. It covers his early maturity, from 1982 to 1988. But Scully has been fixed on the stripe since he was an art student...
...solid painting in the '80s keeps being done by the English. One thinks immediately of Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin or half a dozen others. And among them, prominently, one thinks of Malcolm Morley. Morley is 52. His first retrospective-curated by Nicholas Serota, director of London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, and handsomely introduced by Art Historian Michael Compton-has spent the past year touring from Basel to London to Chicago; it opened this month at its final stop, New York City's Brooklyn Museum. With its 52 paintings, the show spans less than 20 years, from...