The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will close its Beach Street space tomorrow. The museum has opted not to renew its lease. A future location is still in question.From their announcement: We make this announcement with deep appreciation for the extraordinary support the community has given the museum. For nearly 42 years, our Board, […]
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will reopen on May 23 after building and HVAC improvements and a redesign of the layout of the exhibition areas. Chris Ware’s international exhibition Life is Complicated, will headline the reopening.From the Billy Ireland website regarding the changes to the exhibit areas: At the heart of the enhanced museum […]
This historic plaque, celebrating a great Civil War battle, can be seen on the grounds of the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. There are eight “Trump National Golf Clubs,” but the River of Blood Battle didn’t really take place on any of them.As the NYTimes reported a decade ago, it never happened at […]
Might as well start with the one for which I have no answer. Patrick Blower explores the future of the British Museum, assuming they give in to demands that looted artefacts be returned.My immediate reaction is that important artefacts should, indeed, be returned, but there’s nothing wrong with exhibiting a coin or a pot, which, […]
It being a day to debate various unclear topics, let’s clear our palates with John Darkow’s straightforward commentary on “legitimate political discourse,” in which he skips all the metaphors and the reductio-ad-absurda and goes straight to the point:There is absolutely no moral world in which what happened on January 6 qualifies as “legitimate political discourse,” […]
I’m going to start the day by taking Lalo Alcaraz (AMS) to task, though only on a linguistic point.“Misinformation” and “dysinformation” are separate things entirely. Misinformation is an innocent mistake. Dysinformation is purposeful, both in the sense of “deliberate” and in the sense of having a goal.Which is a good time to fly my Irish […]
Let’s start with the current Vintage Juliet Jones storyline, in which quiet, submissive Vassily the Exchange Student has been forced to put on the gloves with the Class Bully, and we all saw this result coming and Stan Drake sure dragged it out.The original ran in 1961, which I mention because there was a time […]