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art historian with eclectic interests early modernist & medievalist, believe it or not

  1. Incidentally this is about a verbatim replication of the conversation my spouse had with his conservative homeschooling sister. She avowed facts are unknowable, information is unfindable, we cannot know anything. It's not an age of disinformation; it's an age of no information.

    Warner: "Do you accept the fact that a million Americans died from COVID?”

    RFK Jr. "I don't know how many died.”

    Warner: “You're the Secretary of Health and Human Services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from COVID?”

    RFK Jr: “I don't think anybody knows.”

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  2. The Paul McCartney photo exhibit at the de Young got extended, which is a dismal sign of what brings people into museums. There are too many celebrity-gawking shows in San Francisco. I want museums to take themselves seriously. Commiserated with the ticket desk staff about it on the way in and out.

    a bunch of framed b/w photos arranged 'artfully' on a museum wall with three people in front. Only one of them is actually looking at the photos; the other two face away and are 'in conversation' with each other. Whatever.
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  3. The SF Symphony board fucked up so badly, the unforced loss of Esa-Pekka Salonen will become legendary. I'm glad to know that some arts orgs know how to catch lightning in a bottle. Congrats, LA & Paris. [gift link]

    Salonen’s new positions highlight the blunder made by the San Francisco Symphony in letting him walk away, former Chronicle classical music critic Joshua Kosman writes.

    Esa-Pekka Salonen’s new roles in L.A. and Paris show S.F. Symphony made a costly mistake

    Salonen’s new positions highlight the blunder made by the San Francisco Symphony in letting him walk away, former Chronicle classical music critic Joshua Kosman writes.

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