The second comment to this post (not by me) was "I would blame democrats for that. You get what you vote for." Meant to be satirical, but this being Nextdoor, you can figure out how the thread went from there.
David Fitzimmons has been the visual "voice" of Tucson for decades, with his cartoons in the Daily Star and his countless appearances at charity benefits, the Tucson Festival of Books, and more. The University of Arizona Library wants to house his lifetime archives of original art, awards, and ephemera in their Special Collections library. Unfortunately, since Fitz's contributions to the Star were on a work-for-hire basis, Star owner Lee Enterprises must sign off on the agreement, and they insist on a $$$$ licensing agreement that makes it a poison-pill offer.
If Lee doesn't come around to an agreement acceptable to the university, Fitz has an ominous plan: "I will burn my entire collection of works and ephemera. . . . Better a bonfire of all of my work than leaving it to pack rats." I expect he means it, too—remember Ted DeGrazia burning his paintings because he found inheritance taxes unacceptable and wanted to make a statement?
A rather bizarre piece on the history and fate of the buildings in Knightsbridge that Hariri combined into a palace. After Hariri's death it was given to Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz of KSA, sold for £210 million in 2020 to a Chinese billionaire, and has been empty for years apart from a homeless Swede who has lived on the front porch for months. It probably all means something but I don't know what.
Just posted by Church of the Incarnation in Charlottesville, Virginia. They sure do look like they're planning to attend Mass.
At least it's not faux Jeffersonian, but am I alone in thinking that the architecture of the new buildings along Ivy is particularly bland? and that the only architecturally interesting building that has gone up at UVA in the last several years is the Contemplative Sciences Center on Emmet?