Statute of David

16 August 1501: Statute of David Commission Awarded to Michelangelo

AoSHQ: Morning Report 08.16.23

Western Civilization RIP: Western Civilization and Man at Yale

Vincent Scully taught art and architectural history for decades at Yale. 

Yale just officially gave up that legacy. 

As William F. Buckley Jr. described in God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom":

A “laissez-faire education” that allowed professors to teach whatever they wished and students to study whatever they wanted, he declared, represented an abdication of standards. And the inculcation of secular and progressive values under the guise of the openness to all ideas constituted educational fraud.

Instapundit: Too White, Yale Cancels Western Art, Shut Up Loser, "Pain Monsters", and Fascism at Yale

Babaylon Bee: Yale to stop teaching medicine invented by white doctors

90 Miles from Tyranny: Yale set to dump art course

TOM: God and Meth at Yale

Ingrid Bolsø Berdal

Armistice: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal

She tore it up in last night's Season One Finale of Westworld

Yes there are spoilers

Instapundit: No one tell notorious robophobe Matt Yglesias

Den of Geek: Review of The Bicameral Mind

WaPo:  Westworld Season 1 Finale

Rule 5 and FMJRA

She manages to pull it out in the end

EBL: Crazy Episode, Evan Rachel Woods, HBO's Westworld, Talulah Riley, and last but definitely not least Thandie Newton

Hidden meaning in Michaelangelo's Adam and God Fresco

Vulture: Biggest Questions and Michelangelo's Adam

Inverse: Ten Easter Eggs from the Westworld Finale

Deadline: Samurai World and Season 1 Finale

Instapundit: Love in the time of Robots

Heat Street: Real Life Westworld?

THR: Westworld S2 and Reddit

Delos Incorporated

Hillary Clinton isn't the only one with bad ankles...

New York Times: Michelangelo's David has a serious flaw...

I found this to be a very interesting, if a bit disconcerting, article. Sam Anderson does a great job.  I enjoyed the mix of history, art, kitsch, bureaucratic inertia, and potential disaster.  

Here is another story about sculpture that I enjoyed:

Monstrance for a Grey Horse: James Acord, the sculptor, was the subject of a forty-thousand-word Profile by Philip Schuyler, published in The New Yorker in two parts in 1991. You have to be a New Yorker subscriber to get it, but essay describes Acord's inspiration and creation of his sculpture (while not Michelangelo's David, had its own technical challenges, such has carving Barre, Vermont granite).

Acord wanted to create a piece to mark a nuclear waste site that could last 10,000 years.  Hence his choice of the most durable (and some of the hardest) carving stone available. Acord did all the carving with hand tools.

Sadly James Acord committed suicide in 2011

Can't say I am a big fan (as art) of these Trump statues or paintings or these Hillary paintings, or this one, Hillary down under street mural or Hillary Bust, but since I referenced Hillary's cankles I have to link them.

Instapundit: What would the media say, Virginia Postrel: Michelangelo's David had the right to bear arms and Arthritic Hands?

T.S. Elliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Why the small penis? 

Separated at Birth: King David and...?

David vs. The Donald: It might be a bit of a stretch...

Link to Tweet

Donald Trump and King David? If Donald Trump said he was sorry about what he did (and meant it) I might be more persuaded. Trump is not sorry about it at all. I would take Trump's position over the hypocrisy of Bill or Hillary Clinton any day, but that is hardly a high standard.

I remember people saying Newt Gingrich could never win the Republican nomination based on his philandering. Many were saying the same thing about Donald Trump not too long ago. That has obviously changed, and instead (and now the left are getting into it) they are saying he won't win the general. It is not going to be easy with a Republican Party in disarray, but Trump can win (although be careful what you wish for). As Cole Porter predicted: Anything Goes.

Fun Facts: Michelangelo's David has over proportioned hands

On The Other Hand: Trooper York: Donald Trump's a douchebag but he's our douchebag

Instapundit: The New Republic is a freak show,  Fields and Shapiro resign from Breitbart, #NeverTrump, they hate you too you know, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Trump Supporter and the KKK for Hillary Clinton

EBL: Hugh Hewitt says Trump still preferable to Hillary

Mark Steyn: The GOP's circular firing squad

Politico: What's wrong with Hillary?

RedState: Boehner for Kasich?

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pietà

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pietà (1499)

Compare this to Michelangelo's later Pietà, or the Deposition of Christ (that he was working on when he died)

The attack on the Pietà and the restoration.

The Agony and the Ecstasy Trailer

The attack on Michaelangelo's Pieta and the restoration

Ave Verum Corpus