IMPRESSIVE: Tony of canoe 🛶 SandGate fame escapes Brisvegas across Polish Armenian border in June to enjoy Dr Cope’s Paragon red vino and Richard’s Galway Pipe grand tawny Aged 20 years 🕺
While Another Wild Man Drove Solo Across America in 25 Hours 55 Minutes in a Mustang
In his 90s, Habermas is increasingly consumed by questions of faith and religion. His latest book spans more than 3,000 years and 1,700 pages St Matthew the tax collector
The race for domination in publishing Trump tell-alls is between Simon & Schuster and Henry Holt. For now, Simon & Schuster is winning
Art Dealer/Fugitive Angela Gulbenkian Arrested For Theft Of Andy Warhol Print And Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin
“Angela Gulbenkian, who married into one of Europe’s most prominent art families and allegedly leveraged their name to conduct fraudulent art deals, has been arrested in Portugal. The jet-setting art heiress is facing two charges of theft in the UK, including one in connection with the £1.1 million ($1.4 million) sale of a Yayoi Kusama pumpkin sculpture in 2017.” – Artnet
THE BIRTH OF THE CULTURE WARS: This century-long conflict is born of the Western elites’ loss of cultural and moral authority.
Writing in 1973, Irving Kristol, a leading conservative commentator, drew attention to the moral depletion of Western culture:
‘For well over 150 years now, social critics have been warning us that bourgeois society was living off the accumulated moral capital of traditional religion and traditional moral philosophy, and that once this capital was depleted, bourgeois society would find its legitimacy ever-more questionable.’
Photo Taken By Thieves Of Stolen Van Gogh Made Public
The artist’s Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring (1884) was taken by a robber from the Singer Laren Museum near Amsterdam on March 30. Now a “proof of life” photo, showing the painting between a May 30 newspaper and a biography of a (different) convicted Van Gogh thief, has been obtained by well-connected investigator Arthur Brand and turned over to authorities. – The New York Times