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Readers, I got a late start. I will add more shortly. –lambert UDPATE All done! Bird Song of the Day The Crested Serpent-Eagle. #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching. All the charts are becoming dull — approaching nominal, if you accept the “new normal” of cases, for example. Still whoops. I guess we’ll see if Biden abandoning masks provides sufficient incentive. There’s also been a lot of discussion about polling that shows differe...

Eight Swiss in Bloomberg billionaire ‘rich list’  While rich Swiss residents figure in Bloomberg's top 500 world's wealthiest, there are nine Americans in the top ten slot. © Keystone / Gaetan Bally This content was published on May 18, 2021 - 18:00 May 18, 2021 - 18:00 Keystone-SDA/dos See in other languages: 2 In the latest version of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, eight Swiss or Swiss-resident names figure among the 500 richest people in the world.  The richest of the Alpine-based billionaires is Geneva-based Ernesto Bertarelli, who according to his own self-descripti...

  It is mid-afternoon on a Monday and Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry – despite having just turned 92 in a pandemic, completed the top floor of his building in the Grand Avenue development, and prepared for a show of new sculpture at the Gagosian Gallery – has little interest in sitting back to reflect on this potentially meaningful moment in his life and career. Instead, he is on the move – giving his first studio tour since the Covid-19 outbreak, far more eager to discuss the myriad designs he has underway, most of which have been proceeding. (Only a high-rise i...

Art Industry News: A Former Top Trump Cabinet Official Dropped $14 Million on a Major Magritte at Christie’s + Other Stories Plus, the Art Institute of Chicago names Denise Gardner its new board chair and Kanye’s Nikes could fetch $1 million at Sotheby's. April 14, 2021 Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross speaking at the SelectUSA 2018 Investment Summit June 22, 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know...

'What would I do?' Frank Gehry, 92, is too busy to retire Frank Gehry looks out from behind a model of the King Street project in his native Toronto, at his architecture studio in Los Angeles, April 6, 2021. At 92, the Pritzker-winning architect is focusing on social justice projects and dismisses the idea of scaling back. “What would I do?” he said. “I enjoy this stuff.” Erik Carter/The New York Times. by Robin Pogrebin (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- It was midafternoon on a Monday and Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry — despite having just turned 92 in a pandemic, completed the top f...