The announcement of a Rafanole exhibition in Saudi Arabia. Will the show go on?
A journalist, a tennis player and the president of the United States walk into a bar….
No, it’s not the setup for a joke. Indeed, it’s no laughing matter.
Tennis stars Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic – the No. 1- and No. 2-ranked players on the men’s tour – find themselves in the midst of an international crisis not of their making….
Read MoreCaption: Hurricane Michael. Courtesy NASA.
Bruce MacKinnon’s cartoon appeared in The Chronicle Herald Sept. 29.
So Brett Kavanaugh becomes a United States Supreme Court Justice and that’s too bad, because he lacks the temperament for it, as he himself demonstrated, and because other revelations – an inability to confront a drunken youth, questionable credit card charges and a good deal of misremembering – would seem to indicate an injudiciousness that would be lethal for a judge….
Read MoreNathanial Hone the Elder’s “Portrait of Catherine Maria ‘Kitty’ Fisher” (1763-64).
#MeToo meets me first: Christine Blasey Ford testifies against Brett Kavanaugh before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The historical past is always with us to offer encouragement or caution. But the social past – the who said what to whom on Thanksgiving – is dead to us as it must be if we are to move on. The exception to this is the egregious act that we never confront and that therefore continues to fester into a cancer….
Read More: “Susannah and the Elders,” a circa 1610 oil on canvas by Artemisia Gentileschi, who was raped and then tortured to ensure she was telling authorities the truth about the crime.
Lucas Cranach the Elder’s “Justice as a Naked Woman With Sword and Scales” (1537), oil on canvas. Amsterdam Fridart Stichting.
It was perhaps inevitable that the #MeToo movement should wind its way through a variety of industries to the pinnacle of Washington D.C. For at its heart, #MeToo is about power – specifically white, male power and privilege – and what those have wrought on others, specifically the female of the species.
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