as an exploratory journey through that old party question: if you could have a drink with anyone in history, who would it be? History is full of people you’d love to have a drink with. Let’s meet a few.
as an exploratory journey through that old party question: if you could have a drink with anyone in history, who would it be? History is full of people you’d love to have a drink with. Let’s meet a few.
Have a drink with: Maria Altmann and Elizabeth Taylor Art lovers, ladies of style, legal pit-fighters. Ask them about: goddamn Nazis. Behavioral advertising is like unexpectedly running into an ex: it seems to know an awful lot about you in ways you forgot you made possible, but for the most part just makes you feel…
Have a drink with: Akhenaten Pharaoh, gender-bender, sun-worshiper, innovator Ask him about: Starting your own religion in five easy steps It’s amazing that so much interest persists in the ancient Egyptian ruler Akhenaten, a king about whom precious little is clear: no one knows when he was born or when he died, why he made…
Have a drink with: Bruno Schulz Writer, artist, cultural property puzzle, cult superstar Ask him about: making hipsters’ heads explode. My husband recently bought a bag from a company whose gleeful tagline was, “They’ll fight over it when you’re dead.” If post-mortem squabbles are really how you know you’ve hit the big time, Bruno Schulz is…
Have a drink with: The Monuments Men Artists, soldiers, detectives. Ask them about: giving Dwight Eisenhower an art tour in a salt mine First things first: why make a movie about these guys? Was art looting really a big deal in WWII? It was a really big deal. It’s easy to assume that the scattering…
