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Mick Flick has made an amazing collection of twentieth century art (original pieces, not 'prints' like mine) at a cost of more than $300 million dollars. They weren't earned as dollars though, the money began as Reich Marks paid for by forced laborers and enslaved Jews in Germany during the war years just before Mick's birth.
That initial wealth was multiplied by major investment in Daimler Chrysler, W. R. Grace and other staples of our culture. Unwilling - no, unable - to repay the debt of his Nazi capitalist grandfather, Flick has sought to assemble an artistic collection representing the best of the half century that followed his grandfather's era.
Rebuffed for years the Flick Collection has found a home. According to what I heard this afternoon on NPR, Berlin will provide the backdrop this collection deserves. The apprehensive and experimental second half of the last century was shaped by our reaction to World War II. In the thoroughly trounced, then turned inside-out by communism, old capital of Germany is an opportunity to host the beauty of imagination along side the violence of hatred.
I usually listen to Smooth Beats but they cut out on me so I tuned in We Funk. Nice
Niek points out that a conservative candidate who offers sex for votes is not considered pornish in the Netherlands (and kinda explains Dutch politics.) Thankfuly it's not like that in Arizona, eh?
