Wednesday Reads

Neil Diamond? Bill Buckner? What's next: Roger LaFrancois appreciation day?

The New York Philharmonic is giving a free concert on Governors Island on July 5. But what's more interesting is the idea that the performance could lead to a permanent summer home in New York. Would that have any impact on Tanglewood?

Adrian Ellis, in a cautionary essay, references the Hartman jade situation at the Museum of Fine Arts. It is one case of several in which "museums serve as accomplices, albeit unwilling, to a sequence of events in which their standing is appropriated for private gain. The lenders who subsequently dispose of their loans may have had this intention all along or their circumstances may simply have altered—force majeure."

I take my daughter skiing.

Check out Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens all jacked up before they were jacked. The images come courtesy of Topps and its giant bomb of a baseball card set from 1992.