This has been in my reading queue - I cannot wait to read it.

Thank you!

All the dirt they have on him: calling a loved one an aunt who is an aunt in almost every sense of the word. We are living in the upsidedown.

Also Andrew Mellon was a robber baron before becoming Sec of Treasury for Warren G Harding and Calvin Coolidge (spearheading the financial policies that led to the Great Depression). Not surprising his heirs are repeating family history.

I thought of Bruegel's Magpie on the Gallows, the figure in the bottom left side taking a dump. It may be a reference to the phrase 'sh*tting on the gallows', which meant taking a dump on government power.

Always and forever 🤘🏼

She really did paint in that exact pose. A photo by Emily Andriesse of van der Freer painting the artist David Cornelis c. 1945.

Exactly. And in the U.S. in 2024, 50% of the country was laughing at tr**p getting to be president again. We need to take them seriously, right now.

JJ spot on. It is a brilliant show, by a brilliant and hard working curator.

The British Museum has always collected contemporary art. Always and forever.

This is exactly what the future mayor of New York should be doing ❤️🤍