Getty Museum Buys Record-Setting Adélaïde Labille-Guiard Work at Women-Only Christie’s Sale
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/getty-labille-guiard-christies-women-in-art-sale-angelica-kaufmann-1234596358/
Last week in Paris, Christie’s auction “Women in Art,” the house’s first-ever sale dedicated solely to female artists, attracted a big buyer: Los Angeles’s Getty Museum, which purchased Adélaïde Labille-Guiard’s pastel Portrait of Madame Charles Mitoire with Her Children (1783) for a record-setting sum of $764,000.
…It was sold by descendants of banking dynasty heir Baron Eugène de Rothschild.
Feinstein Doubles Down On Saying Democracy Isn’t In Jeopardy Ahead Of Election Bill Vote
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), on the eve of the Senate vote on Democrats’ sweeping election reform bill, reiterated her reasoning for opposing the elimination of the filibuster even as progressives grow increasingly frustrated at her reticence and Republicans prepare to use the rule to block the bill.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/06/21/feinstein-doubles-down-on-saying-democracy-isnt-in-jeopardy-ahead-of-election-bill-vote/?sh=17595aac25b0
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The Mossad’s international brigade in Iran
The Mossad uses foreign citizens for its operations in Iran and elsewhere.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/the-mossad-s-international-brigade-in-iran-1.9908056
https://web.archive.org/web/20210617053715/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/the-mossad-s-international-brigade-in-iran-1.9908056
I hope the Biden portrait doesn't disappoint; I have high kekspectations.