Michael Baxandall, 1933-2008

From the Times obituary:

"A 15th-century painting is the deposit of a social relationship."

- Michael Baxandall

John Russell, 1919-2008

From the Times obituary:

"When art is made new, we are made new with it.  We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and of psychic energies shared and redoubled, which is just about the most satisfying thing life has to offer."  

- John Russell

The Selling of France's May of 1968

Remembering May 1968 in France:

Even Fauchon, the expensive gourmet store whose color is hot pink, has lined up with the zeitgeist. The store is selling a metal box containing green tea from China called “le thé Mai 68” and adorned with slogans (including: “poetry is in the streets” and “imagination to power”). Described as “subtly perfumed with exotic fruits, grapefruit, bits of lemon peel and rose petals,” Fauchon calls it “the tea with the perfume of revolution.” Price: about $23.50.

Works Cited: Steven Erlander, "Barricades of May '68 Still Divide the French," The New York Times, April 30, 2008.