I just wanted to highlight what has to be a new low for The Age website, from this afternoon:
They tried to put themselves at arm’s length from the “hook” (it’s a story about the distasteful speculation, so that makes it okay, right?), but it doesn’t redeem it.
Who said the Fairfax websites were becoming increasingly tabloid?
(An excerpt from my 2006 travel blog).
What I discovered at the Louvre is that basically I’m a philistine. You may have already worked this out, but exposing myself to the world’s finest art collection really rammed it home. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy it: it’s all good stuff. But I just can’t get as excited about great art and sculpture as I know I should.
I mean, with the Mona Lisa, I agree that Leonardo managed a great enigmatic smile on that thing. An exceptionally good enigmatic smile even. But given the Mona Lisa is apparently valued for insurance purposes in the order of $650 million dollars – well, it’s not that good a smile.
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