I’ve always wondered about museums having corporate sponsors for shows featuring artists who were very anti-corporate/anti-capitalist. One of the museums in San Francisco had an exhibition of works by Käthe Kollwitz; its corporate sponsor was a tech company that had just gotten lambasted for refusing to give its workers more than a week of parental leave, and most specifically, leave for female employees who were experiencing difficult pregnancies. I thought how Kollwitz would have loved to scorch them on paper.
The gala evening… etc. is a direct steal. Every time I use it I wonder if the author knowingly wrote it to be as funny as it is and how many others caught the humor in its original setting, Vanity Fair magazine.
Ersatz Lascaux
I’ve always wondered about museums having corporate sponsors for shows featuring artists who were very anti-corporate/anti-capitalist. One of the museums in San Francisco had an exhibition of works by Käthe Kollwitz; its corporate sponsor was a tech company that had just gotten lambasted for refusing to give its workers more than a week of parental leave, and most specifically, leave for female employees who were experiencing difficult pregnancies. I thought how Kollwitz would have loved to scorch them on paper.
The gala evening… etc. is a direct steal. Every time I use it I wonder if the author knowingly wrote it to be as funny as it is and how many others caught the humor in its original setting, Vanity Fair magazine.