Provoked by the inaugural speech of the new president on Jan. 20, 2025, calling his second installment in Washington a new “Golden Age,” Matthew Rose writes a sidewinding story of other golden ages and the use of gold as a commodity and in art as a symbol of power and wealth.
Read MoreIt’s past the holiday, but our Paris correspondent, Matthew Rose, offers up a story from his childhood, one in which the hero has an obsession with a Halloween costume that triggers an identity crisis. Happily, the hero solves the crisis.
Read MoreSome subjects touch a nerve. The idea of “too much art” propelled our friend and former Paris correspondent, Matthew Rose, to write about his own art, of which thousands of pieces have been shown and stored and sold and traded and given away.
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