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art & photography
Back from the Club
By Charles Burton. From the Newport Museum and Art Gallery.
Scarfolk
If you’ve not visited Scarfolk, you really should. (With apologies to those not in the UK, who might not get this humour.)
Super Metro
Washington DC’s Metro map is given the Super Mario 3 treatment.
The Tulip Folly by Jean-Léon Gérôme
“Gérôme illustrates an incident during the “tulipomania,” or the craze for tulips, that swept the Netherlands and much of Europe during the 17th century. The tulip, originally imported from Turkey in the 16th century, became an increasingly valuable commodity. By 1636/7, tulipomania peaked, and, when the market crashed, speculators were left with as little as 5 percent of their original investments. In this scene, a nobleman guards an exceptional bloom as soldiers trample flowerbeds in a vain attempt to stabilize the tulip market by limiting the supply.”