Pastry tradition articles
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Charles III: A portrait of quiet traditionalism
This week, King Charles III's first royal portrait as king was unveiled in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Jonathan Yeo, son of conservative politician Tim Yeo, painted the oil-on-canvas work. Immediately, online observers were struck by the hellishness of the image.The portrait depicts Charles clad in red formal military garb against an abstract field of the same color. Yeo's circular, churning brushstrokes make the background and foreground appear to melt into one another. In the deeper,...
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Bridgerton has totally obliterated the traditional costume drama
Netflix’s Regency romance has changed the rules of the fusty period genre entirely. Katie Rosseinsky asks whether that might be a mixed blessing
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On Outrage Mobsters, Harrison Butker and Tradition Haters
Do you remember what your college commencement speaker said? I don’t. I’ve attended multiple graduations. I usually spend more time crowd-gazing when commencement speeches start – but I vaguely remember when Michael Bloomberg told my niece’s 2013 graduation class at Stanford: that there was a flaw in America’s immigration policy that needed fixing. I don’t recall what that flaw was, but Bloomberg spent a good deal of his speech making political statements that he knew the mostly leftist students...