It's getting closer to scurry-under-the-blanket time: The Doomsday Clock has just moved up to two minutes before midnight.
Egad! Everything about the news today is so scary and dismal, we knew we needed something to cheer us up. Looking around frantically, we were starting to feel hopeless — until we spotted this:
"The emailed response from the Guggenheim’s chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: The museum could not accommodate a request to borrow a painting by Vincent van Gogh for President and Melania Trump’s private living quarters.
"Instead, wrote the curator, Nancy Spector, another piece was available...an 18-karat, fully functioning, solid gold toilet — an interactive work titled 'America' that critics have described as pointed satire aimed at the excess of wealth in this country."
We won't comment on whether an art museum would respond to another White House this way, except to say that you get what you dish out. Trump has coarsened the national discourse and perceptions of public behavior to such an extent that others have no fear about responding in kind.
Quite a message to the Drumpfs about where they can — shall we say, van Gogh? Thanks, Guggenheimers! We cats PURR.
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