The last time it was sold at auction, in 1987, it sold for $660,000. Andy Warhol’s 1963 White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times), from his “Death and Disasters” series, will be auctioned at Sotheby’s on Nov. 16. It’s estimated to go for more than $80 million.
Every time we are in Rome, K and I stop by the Ara Pacis, a museum built around a 2,000-year-old altar dedicated to the goddess of peace. The altar itself is a never-flagging source of pleasure. Enclosed, as…
After Spike Milligan published “Monty,” the third installment of his memoirs, a reader wrote to praise the book, but added that he was bothered by a reference Milligan made about “cowardice in the face of the…
Have you ever heard the name Chidiock Tichborne? My mother, who required us to memorize a poem every weekend, told me about him when I was very young. I was reminded of him earlier this week in an essay by…
Another great essay by the great Theodore Dalrymple in Taki’s Magazine, this one on junk art. Here’s an excerpt: “Empty Frames” “Only a couple of weeks after the draping of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, a…
“We get old and get used to each other. We think alike. We read each other’s minds. We know what the other wants without asking. Sometimes we irritate each other a little bit. Maybe sometimes take each other…
