Franco Zeffirelli is one of Leonardo da Vinci’s descendants. (Well…sort of.)
Dame Carol Ann Duffy (no, you’re thinking of Carol Anne—I’m talking about Britain’s Poet Laureate) won’t be writing anything for the Queen’s 90th birthday. Seems she’s busy penning an ode “celebrating the end of the old gas and electricity meters, which are to be replaced by 2020.” Totally understandable.
Speaking of poetry, James Parker makes the case for Les Murray as “the greatest poet alive.”
Next month, the Guggenheim will install “a preposterously scatological apotheosis of wealth whose form is completed in its function.” Donald Trump is gonna be hella jealous, as the kids say.
Just two days left to catch Rob de Oude’s solo exhibition at DM Contemporary in Manhattan. Can’t make it? Check out some of de Oude’s remarkable work here.
