In the 1980s, when old-fashioned fan clubs were all the rage, a 14-year-old “Monty Python” devotee named Matt Hyde wrote to John Cleese and asked whether such a club existed in his name. Thankfully, the answer…
Christie’s started off the spring auction season strongly with a three-part auction in London and Shanghai, racking up $334 million in works from the 20th and 21st centuries. Die Fucshe (“The Foxes”), a 1913…
I can’t remember where I read it, but over the next two decades something like $70 trillion will be passed down from America’s Baby Boomers to their kids and grandkids. About $40 trillion of that will go to…
“I now write from an old mind and an old body, long beyond the time when most men would ever think of continuing such a thing, but since I started so late I owe it to myself to continue, and when the words…
