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  • The Currency of Belonging 

    Is good taste a matter of culture or courage? I have long enjoyed The Gilded Age as a show not just as a portrait of that era and its irreversible effects on modern day America, but also a perfect example of the classic question: who decides the constituents of good taste? Although the central tensions,

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  • The Other Leonardo

    Let your eye choose before the name does I visited Rome last week, and experienced some very mixed feelings; on one hand I felt that I was seeing the best art I’ve ever encountered, and on the other, I felt a strange sadness at how the Colosseum, Forum and other places I’ve read so much

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  • Do you actually have taste, or have you just been taught what luxury looks like? The momentous beginning of this blog starts with quite a…well, substantive, topic: luxury. How much of this is talked about in the present day — investors suggest buying LVMH, influencers parade Chanel as the be-all and end-all, and we now

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