Ford’s Theatre Still Stuns & Saddens

I’m in Washington on a research project, working with material about the great dealer and collector Allan Stone at the Archives of American Art. I’m writing an art-history-centered biography of Allan, who discovered artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Estes, and John Chamberlain and represented Joseph Cornell and Willem de Kooning, again, among many other heavy hitters.

It’s been a while since I’ve been in D.C. The place has certainly made hay from Covid. I can’t say “gold-plated hay” since the $4 trillion Congress spent to fight an unstoppable respiratory virus, of all things, is entirely funny money. And almost the entire federal government “worked from home” for a year and a half, causing a run on bedroom slippers and golf clubs. Praise the Lord, the Swamp’s not saving us from the Nazis.

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Brian T. Allen

Brian T. Allen is National Review’s art critic.

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I’m in Washington on a research project, working with material about the great dealer and collector Allan Stone at the Archives of American Art. I’m writing an art-history-centered biography of Allan, who discovered artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Estes, and John Chamberlain and represented Joseph Cornell and Willem de Kooning, again, among many other heavy hitters.

It’s been a while since I’ve been in D.C. The place has certainly made hay from Covid. I can’t say “gold-plated hay” since the $4 trillion Congress spent to fight an unstoppable respiratory virus, of all things, is entirely funny money. And almost the entire federal government “worked from home” for a year and a half, causing a run on bedroom slippers and golf clubs. Praise the Lord, the Swamp’s not saving us from the Nazis.