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Blockchain News
UKs Bank Regulator to Propose Rules for Digital Asset Issuance
"9 a.m. Monday March 6th, 2023. UK's bank regulator to propose rules for digital asset issuance. The Prudential regulatory authority PRA in the United Kingdom is set to propose rules for issuing and holding digital assets, according to Vicky's supporter, executive director of the Prudential policy directorate at the Bank of England. The rules will be developed in compliance with the Basel three rules and the financial services and markets FSM bill currently being considered by parliament. Read more
CryptoGlobe
Majority of Retail Bitcoin Investors Likely Lost Money in Last 7 Years, Finds BIS Report
"11 a.m. Sunday, February 26th, 2023. Majority of retail Bitcoin investors likely lost money in last 7 years finds BIS report the bank for international settlements BIS has published its bulletin number 69, titled crypto shocks, and retail losses, which investigates the behavior of crypto investors and whether the sector has impacted broader financial markets. BIS was established in 1930 and is based in Basel, Switzerland its aims are to serve central banks in their pursuit.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
"basel" Discussed on CoinDesk Podcast Network
"And social media, because a lot of the content and the information that's consumed is through social media. So I think that Latinos that have gone through the process of understanding crypto and have been able to seize the opportunities within crypto or them to share what they've learned in Spanish is extremely important for others to start adopting it. And so that's really one of the main reasons why we started. But I think that it's important also to recognize that one of the first steps for a person especially for women to for it to be believable for them is to have someone that is relatable to them, you know? Once you see in any industry, you see people that are making it that are doing things that don't look like you, chances are you're going to say that's not for me. And so I think that part of our mission to become more public and to provide a public platform for others to come and chat and learn et cetera is the visual representation to where not only are we out there, but we're also encouraging other Latinos in the space. I can't tell you just this week at art Basel. In which we have been speaking to other women, and we kind of explain what it is. And it turns out they're Latino. They speak Spanish. They have not once spoken Spanish in the space. And yet now that they see us in their like, oh wow, there's latinas that are doing this. What's the show? Let me participate. I would love to be able to do this. With the vast majority of the news regulation groundbreaking technology, et cetera, typically comes first in the English language. And it's completely unfair that just because you speak another language, you don't have access to that. So we take that responsibility pretty seriously because it impacts us. It's what we speak at home. So why wouldn't we want to show that in a professional way? I want to add to that because
CoinDesk Podcast Network
Unpacking CES 2023: Where Was Web3?
"How is CES? How is a consumer electronic show? What did you think of it this year? I didn't make it, so I'm really curious if web three was everywhere, or if it was anywhere. Great question. CES was a little bit of both. One, there were some amazing people, great conversations that were had. We interviewed, I think almost 20 people and did a bunch of great Sessions on stage. And so that was fantastic. The thing that I was most interested in is how much web three was not showing up on the show floor. For anyone who hasn't been to CES, it is really an expo show. It is a 1 million ft² of demo space for people to show off their new wares. There was like 15 foot holograms of Mark Cuban. There was all of this amazing sort of gaming and VR tech and haptic tech that we saw and tons of autonomous cars. But when I kept looking, I was like, oh, I'm not seeing much web three here, which compared to when you go to a south by Southwest or a can or even art Basel. You see what three almost everywhere? Here it was kind of missing. And so I'm just, I was a bit surprised because I thought I would see more from not being there, but seeing the news, what was your takeaway? Yeah, well, I was thinking about going and I've been to CES a bunch of times before. This year, just timing didn't work out. So I was following along the news. I was really excited to see what Raja for Mastercard announced with Mastercard's web three accelerator. They're doing that in collaboration with polygon studios, which I thought was really cool. That seemed to be sort of the biggest web three announcement in news, but a lot of what I was seeing was more hardware developments like L'oreal, unveiled some new technology on the applicator phase for people with accessibility challenges. I thought that was amazing. I didn't see a ton about web three though, outside of Mastercard's announcement with polygon.
CoinCentral
Miami Art Week 2022 NFTs and Web3 Deepen Their Roots
"6 p.m. Monday, December 12th, 2022. Miami art week 2022 NFTs and web three deep in their roots. Art Basel, now 20 years of age, has made itself a home for digital art and the broader crypto communities the made their way into a festival that focused mostly on contemporary and fine art. Web three, NFTs, and the metaverse took over the many of the convention halls, art spaces, and music venues in the city. The post Miami art week 2022 NFTs and web three deep in their roots appeared first on coin central.
Bitcoin Magazine
Basel Committee Finalizes Policy Suggesting 2 Bitcoin Exposure Cap For Banks
"8 p.m. Friday December 16th, 2022. Basel committee finalizes policy suggesting two Bitcoin exposure cap for banks. The BIS Basel committee introduced a finalized proposal for limits to the amount of tier one capital banks can hold in Bitcoin.
Monocle 24: The Urbanist
"basel" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Urbanist
"Hello, I'm angel Tucker and you're listening to tool stories on monocle 24 brought to you by the team behind the urbanist, the show all about the cities we live in. In Basel, one evolving area of the city is bringing forward the debate over what to do with decommissioned land. On the banks of the Rhine are once bustling industrial area has been claimed by both citizens and developers alike. So who will win out? Monocles, Maya renfer, tells us more. Basel might be best known for its cultural scene. Museums and institutions offer rich program from ballet and opera to cutting edge modern art exhibitions. Art Basel draws and leading art galleries annually and buildings by Herzog and demo, adorn every other corner of the city. Located in the northwest corner of Switzerland, basil might also be associated with the Rhine. Carving its way through the romantic old neighborhoods. The river is not only used by cargo ships, but swimming locals. Once temperatures reach 20°, hundreds of basil jump into the Rhine, to make their way along the river banks. Floating on top of inflatable colorful clothing bags, they transform the river into a speckled rainbow pattern every summer. Also connected to the Rhine, but less present in the public awareness is the pharmaceutical dominance of the city. Basel has a long industrial history. To this day, lifestyle giants like Roche and Novartis are headquartered along the riverside. Quite naturally, considering the trading power of the 1230 kilometer long river, the brine ports used to be much frequented. Fueling the local chemical companies in the northern tip of the city. It was there in the Quebec area that chemical companies like BASF and Novartis produced medicine and colonized. For more than 100 years, the klebe generated the city's wealth in the form of chemical compounds. It was only recently that companies moved away. Leaving the industrial cleave abandoned and deserted. But it didn't take long for travelers to arrive in their caravans, where they set up small E trees. Similarly, the basle youth claimed the area as its meeting spot, and bars and clubs opened their venues taking advantage of the remote location. The factory pipes crippled the smoke now mainly comes from the disposable barbecues bought for family reunions, and from cigarettes of young people sitting on the concrete piers until the wee hours of the morning. With the sound of industrial production gone, the Quebec of today offers a broad soundscape, including samba from the large Brazilian communities. At a less than laughter, the consistent bus blasting from the techno ships mood on the river banks. Within months the industrial void was filled with life and diversity. But, as with any urban neighborhood in overpopulated Central Europe, city developers were quick to the expansion potential. Plans were drawn up to transform the Quebec into a brand new hip neighborhood. The interim use that the clip is now under, is only supposed to last until 2024. After that, the area of around 300,000 km² is to house 20,000 inhabitants and create 30,000 jobs. It was also soon enough that quarrels matched around the klebe's future. Local communities raced initiatives to be more involved in the transformation of their homes, and voice concerns around sustainability, affordability, and most importantly health and safety. A report published in 2019 accused both the government and chemical companies of a lazy cleanup job. When the chemical industry left the area, there were no efforts to search for toxic residues and there were no plans for decontamination prior to building the shiny new neighborhood of tomorrow. The cities chemical wealth left unwanted traces. A cocktail of 2000 types of contaminants is potentially hiding away in the neighborhood's groundwater. Basel scores high in terms of quality of life, and with its prime location in the city, the klebe is an urban gold mine. If that potential is to be harnessed without undermining the neighborhoods livability, developers will have to work with both a consideration of the area's industrial past and an appreciation of the cultural richness that has grown organically, entirely without a bulldozer. You've been listening to tall stories a monocle 24 production. Today's episode was written by Maya renfer and produced an edited by David Stevens, and remember to tune in on Thursday for the full 30 minute edition of the urbanist. I'm at your talk. Goodbye. Thank you for listening city lovers..
The Art Newspaper Weekly
"basel" Discussed on The Art Newspaper Weekly
"Life between islands, Caribbean British art, 1950s to now is it take Britain in London until the 3rd of April 2022. The accompanying book is published by Tate and is excellent. David a Bailey's book with Alison Thompson titled liberation begins in the imagination and anthology of writing's own Caribbean British art and culture is also published by Tate and price 30 pounds. Steve McQueen's 5 film series small axe is available for free in the UK on BBC iPlayer until the 13th of December and on Amazon Prime outside the UK. And Lebanese solo exhibition at Tate modern continues until the 3rd of July, 2022. And finally, it's time for our work of the week, among the countless shows around art Basel Miami Beach is heaven's gate, a new work by the video artist Marco brambilla at the Paris art museum Miami or Pam. It's described by the museum as a lavish satirical and vertigo inducing meditation on the Hollywood dream factory, a work of digital psychedelia, employing the same state of the art computer compositing technology as the films it references. Amy Dawson are deputy digital editor, spoke to Marco about the work. So I was lucky enough to view heaven's gate on a virtual reality headset and it was this incredible visual overload where I experienced time travel from dinosaurs roaming around my head all the way through to the riots at the U.S. capitol that we witnessed at the beginning of this year. So can you describe a little bit about this work? Well, this is actually the fourth work I've made using a video collage technique that the first work was called civilization in 2006. And this work is a little bit different because it takes two forms of one form as a physical installation where you're looking at this historical Tableau made up of movie samples as almost like a totemic storytelling, and then the second version is where we levitate through this panoramic and it's a much more subjective kind of immersive way of looking at the story. But both versions have their own kind of psychological impact and when you're looking at a narrative told as you would in kind of a diorama at the museum of natural history. And in the other you're actually participating in this Ascension through the different levels of I mean, they're both different levels of purgatory in different levels of history, simultaneously, I think. And can you talk about the kinds of images that you've overlaid because there's appearances from celebrities and obviously it's very Hollywood esque. So can you tell us about some of the works and Tableau is that you've taken from these inspirations? Well, in this work, I chose samples from imagery that reflected kind of post depression post World War II glamour and extravagant. So there was a tremendous amount of imagery taken from Hollywood musicals, larger than life characters, superheroes to modern equivalent now being superheroes, of course. And I think it really embodied the spirit of today in a way, because I think this was obviously made during the lockdown as you know. And we were bombarded with information about the Trump reelection campaign, the coronavirus economic situations, et cetera, et cetera. And I think this idea of post depression post war euphoria channel through film because the language of this is all taken from film, seemed appropriate to reflect this kind of dance of death, if you will. This kind of almost apocalyptic situation in which we found ourselves last year. So it really expresses itself in a much more euphoric way than the previous collages. And I didn't stay away from using recognizable characters that represented excess and glamour and consumerism. I really kind of leaned into that in this work. One of the things that I was thinking when I was experiencing the work is that this fantastical world that you create really reminds me so much of hieronymus Bosch's really detailed surrealist paintings from the 15th and 16th centuries. What were your inspirations for this piece? Does that ring any bells with you or whether other artists or works from art history that resonated? Absolutely. I think bruegel was the primary influence in her own response was the second one. So those are the two main influences on this kind of work, because it's really a kind of baroque work in a way. And I think the way it connects directly to those precedents is the fact that it's a kind of it's a nonlinear storytelling. So the storytelling is really the stream of consciousness and when you're watching 20 or 30 different scenarios unfold simultaneously and it seems they may be not connected in any obvious way, but thematically when you're looking at it as a scroll and your subjective point of view is rising through it. They do tend to make sense on a maybe on a subliminal level very much in the same way as bruegel's paintings in a more literal way, obviously the day in the life of a village and what went on in that village as a 24 hour period all on one Tableau was his contribution to that kind of storytelling and painting. And I think this has a similar way of telling that kind of story only using motion loops and visuals with computers. So it's a very high-tech version of the same kind of storytelling. It's a very high-tech version of an old master kind of vision. And one of the things about it as well is how much you want to go back and look into that detail. On first experience, it's quite overwhelming and then you hone in on those details. At the Pam in Miami, it's being shown both as a video installation as you say of these kind of totemic screens, but also can be experienced on VR and during art week. People will be able to en masse experience it with extra headsets. I wondered what your preference was because of course I think the video quality is much sharper on a screen, whereas the headsets don't allow that same kind of quality, but obviously the experience is all the more impressive. So I wondered if you had a preference. Well, I was very lucky to work with a company called vive art, which makes the state of the art headset. So there's no longer a sacrifice in the image quality when you're in the immersive version of the work versus the physical installation that's at the museum at the same time. And this will be the first time when we can have 20 or 30 people all entering this virtual reality world simultaneously because since I made the work, HTC vive have come out with a very portable headset that looks like aviator glasses and you just put it on and it works. And we can have 20 or 30 of those and have large groups of people. So it brings it back to this kind of more communal experience, which is similar to the way you're looking at a physical installation, although each person is obviously having his own kind.
The Art Newspaper Weekly
"basel" Discussed on The Art Newspaper Weekly
"Thank you. Do you remember? Yes. Yeah. And that still comes across today, doesn't it? And everybody who goes to, again, I've never been to work bars. But everybody I know who goes there always says there's this sort of certain refinement and it seems that in a sense that's part of the brand. It's only the top galleries get in here sort of thing. Exactly. It's quite stately. And it reflects you know what I should have mentioned is a very, very long deep tradition of private collecting in Switzerland. And around the Rhine area. But that's also partly why Miami is so interesting because when art Basel launched in Miami, was launching in a very different type of place with a very different type of fair, but that was around the time. In fact, it launched in 2002. It's another twist in the roller coaster, as it was meant to open in 2001. But fortunately, 9 11 happened that year and no one was traveling. People were traveling even less than. But by then, the market had just become much more internationalized and a bit more fun. The story of art fairs in the U.S. is really interesting, isn't it? Because Chicago had a really major fare and again a sort of the most prominent U.S. fare for a while. But of course, now New York is the focus for fairs mainly. Tell us about that. Yeah, the U.S. is really, really interesting because it's interesting already that Chicago was the first place in the same way as Basel had all the rivers and railways, Chicago had lots of lots of airlines. And some great museums. And a love of contemporary art and contemporary music. It was the perfect place where the it was just unfortunately a mess. For 20 years, it ran phenomenally. It was the fair in America and at the right time. Because what has also happened since in the U.S. is it's a lot more fragmented as a fair location than anywhere else in the world. Everywhere else has one definite leading fair. And yes, the Miami art Basel mummy is probably the biggest fair, but it's not in New York. As you say in all the money, I mean, throughout the book, the theme is that the art fairs follow the money and the money follows the art fairs. And that moved from Chicago to New York and the art as well moved to New York. I mean, the abstract expressionist scene was really happening. There. But then what you get is a huge financial crash. So you've got a spare that is whose organizers are in a mess. There's a ton of infighting. And then you have a huge market crash. And that combination, I think, was the death knell, really, although I should say chicken the Chicago has revived. It still exists. It is doing very well on the tiny car. But it died briefly. And then New York was able to take over and what happened through the terrible depressing years of the 90s through the 90s crash was you get these more grassroots sea more fun, more artists basically. No one really expected to make money. But they hung out in a hotel and sold out. That was the gramercy hotel. And that's quite a legendary fear. It's one of those art world events that you hear stories about you meet people who went there and they were all sorts of chaotic happenings. And it almost doesn't sound like an art fair when people describe it. It sounds like a kind of an installation in which involved galleries in some ways. It was really radical, right? It was in the Chicago fares eventually were brought by merchandise march or a very corporatized. You know, they were in a convention center as was Basel. The maastricht also existed by them. These are much more conventional trade fares. And this was a crazy hotel. And the lift broke down. And people were kind of drinking and smoking up the staircases from what I hear. But I think also I think we do one other theme that came through the book because we all rather romanticize that. That's what we want art an artist to be. And it can be like that. When there isn't much money sloshing around, we're all quite happy to be creative and fun and almost artist in a Garret in hotel. But as soon as that market came back, the gramercy, which eventually became the, which is now the armory show, the army show is now a bit more corporatized and indeed owned by merchandise Mart to end the Chicago fare. Right. And interestingly freeze the London fare emerged partly out of a kind of interest that emerged from the gramercy hotel fair. It was part of the inspiration behind it. Absolutely. Yes, I mean, I think there was another fair and cologne called unfair, which itself was slightly the inspiration for the gramercy hotel. And Matthew slot over who founded cofounded frieze says this absolutely they saw these fairs. And again, that was the only way to see contemporary art. Freeze was terribly lucky in a way that an alternative sort of venue had been experimented with and seemed to be a success because friezes tent has been quite a signifier really of its brand. Although I think that is also challenging in the 21st century environmentally conscious age, but that's skipping, that's skipping ahead. Yeah, I wanted to talk a bit about freeze because one of the things I think about freeze that I found interesting is that obviously a being in London and therefore seeing the ecosystem develop. Before that, there was the London art fair which still exists and it was in the islington business design center, which was always had other bits in it. And when you go back to the London art fair, it sort of rather quaint now, and you can't believe that that was a sort of top London art fair, really. But freeze was this sort of it burst into the London scene in a way, which I don't think even those who knew it was going to be impressive could have ever predicted, right? Yeah, I mean, I think I call I call Matthew and Amanda accidental entrepreneurs. I don't think even they thought it was going to be. But that was the time of accidental entrepreneurs. I mean, it was outside the art world. What frieze was incredibly lucky with really? Was it coincided with this enormous boom and wealth that came through London and London was not only the sort of European center of financial trade, but it was also it was between the U.S. and Asia. And it was just in a prime position. Everything was people were making fortunes, investment banking was the job of choice, and it was self made money and what these people wanted was young fun, art, and we did have the artists. Now, how much, as you said, it's an ecosystem and this all relates. But the artists who came up through the less prosperous years through the 90s that we now caught in the YBAs coincided with this with money, it's a match made in heaven, really. Freeze now is the catalyst for everything that happens in that season in London. And what I mean when I say that it has that surprising effect is it's extraordinary that, for instance, the National Gallery's programming is worked around freeze, the tates, programming, fits around freeze. The extent to which you can have a commercial fair, which dictates the whole cultural moment seems to me to be indicative of the kind of boom affairs that you write about. I think you call it the glory years. I do call it the glory, it's exactly that that was what it all became or the gold of the golden years. Yeah, that was I think that was when most powerful in a positive way. And I think being able to have that sort of cultural power within a city that already has phenomenal. And I think I'm not sure people at the National Gallery intake really like to admit that that is what they do, but they know they're doing it. It's a sort of begrudging acknowledgment. The what happens in October in London is.
The Art Newspaper Weekly
"basel" Discussed on The Art Newspaper Weekly
"I talked to Melanie Gurley about her book on the past present and future of art fairs as a huge new show life between islands Caribbean British art 1950s to now opens at Tate Britain. I talked to its curators Alex farquharson and David a Bailey. And in this episode's work of the week, we're back in Miami. Amy Dawson talks about heaven's gate, a new work in virtual reality or VR by Marco at the Perez art museum. Before that, the new series of our sister podcast are brushed with continues featuring in depth conversations with artists about the art music literature and film that's influenced them and the cultural experiences that have shaped their lives and work. The latest episode is with Pablo bronstein. Do subscribe to a brush with and this podcast wherever you're listening now, and if you like what we do, please give us a rating or review on Apple podcasts. It helps others to find us. Now art Basel Miami Beach is the latest outfit to return after an enforced sabbatical because of the pandemic. It coincides with the publication of the art fair story, a new book by the Financial Times art market columnist and editor at large at the art newspaper, Melanie guerrilla, Melanie has been in Miami this week, and I spoke to her about the fair and the book. Melanie, before we come to talk about your book, you've just come back from Miami. How was it? It was lively. It was buzzy. It wasn't crazy daisy. I mean, I think I'm sure you've been as well to the Miami fair and the beach and when you can barely walk in the hours of the fair come through o'clock in the afternoon. And then actually no never. Okay, well there comes a point because and what they've done is that they've done extra timed entry to the fair. So across two days. And I think that the reality is not as many people are traveling a few galleries were very, very conscious of not holding parties and not all of them. But a few were. Just to sort of reflect slightly different times. But it was still buzzing. The sunshine, there were some great museum openings, the rebel collection looks amazing. And yeah, people were pleased to be there. Right. And obviously there's this new variant of COVID-19, which is emerged. Was there much talk about on the Corona? Oh definitely. I mean, a lot of us were at the airport trying to reorganize tests because not to get too technical, but we'd really organize lateral flow tests and then you had to change those to PCRs and we were all on the hop. And there were a few jitters there obviously a few South African galleries who all made it in some shape or form or other, but possibly not the same people who were meant to come came, William kentridge, the artist was meant to come out to see a show at his gallery Goodman gallery who had a pop up and he couldn't come. I think it was more that it was a reminder of the fragility of all this. That we keep saying we're in a post pandemic time. And we're not. Absolutely. And actually that's a neat segue into your book, because obviously you wrote your book the art fair story at that moment where after this extraordinary growth in the art fair world it suddenly hit a buffer. So can you say what was it like to write a book in that context? Because here you are talking about this roller coaster ride, and it suddenly had the completely new twist. Yeah, exactly. It was interesting. One thing I realized straight away was that the reason I had time to write a book was because I wasn't jumping on fair planes and going to art fairs. And it made me think a little bit about our choices and what we're all doing around the world. But the other thing I would say, when I started it, I think I thought it's dumb. This art fair industry is over. We tried. Because I think more people may be remembered even before the pandemic, there were moons and groans. And it's just economically for galleries, never mind there are lots of tired journalists. The galleries, it's economically quite tricky for most galleries. It adds to the risk of it all. And during the 6 months of writing, it became apparent that they weren't completely going away. In a positive way that there are reasons why we still need some art fairs. It was quite for me. It was quite an interesting journey, actually, I probably went from these a dove into they've suffered a few blows before, but this will change things. Right, it's actually really intriguingly the book looks at the gestation of the art fairs and one of the things I think that would surprise many readers is in a way there was actually quite a noble intent. It wasn't all about money in the first instance. It was actually about making sure that people could see contemporary art because of course it was the pre the booming contemporary. Every museum now, all the National Gallery's the old master galleries won't contemporary art now, but that wasn't the case back when art colon begins, and you begin with art colonial 1967. I do, yes. I think the model of art fairs was around in some ways before cologne, but in terms of the modern day outfit and indeed as you're saying for contemporary art, Columbia was the first of its kind. And yes, absolutely. There was a real need to jump start a market pretty much from zero, especially in Europe, where because after the war, you know, everyone had moved to America and no one wanted anything German and cutting edge. And just yeah, it's really, really hard to imagine that auction houses didn't sell contemporary art, there was nowhere you had to make your way to a gallery in a slightly difficult place and really, really love it to find it. So there was a real need. Indeed. And one of the interesting things about the book is that you chart in a way that growth and the decline of certain fares and obviously arc loan therefore was a real trailblazer. But it was actually art Basel that followed slightly in its wake that's become this sort of unbelievable bier moth. And still the fear that everyone always says is their favorite. It is its interesting to see why some fares survive and why some fares wax and wane. And the reality is most wax and Wayne and quite a lot don't make it through. But yes, it's interesting to look at maybe why art Basel. And I think one reason is that it started up a bit more internationally than cologne it started out being open to people from overseas and the Americans were very important. And there are some really prosaic reasons. Basel was in June. And June is the end of the year when dealers have inventory to get rid of. And everyone's making their way to Venice. It's the end of the art market season. There's some fascinating. Sometimes it's venues, you know, to make the difference. So there's some serendipity, but also I think Basel was just very strict with its selection. And sometimes, I think someone said to me, you need to be a little bit elite. Right, that's it. Is it Monica? Exactly..
AP News Radio
Bob Dylan artwork show opens in Miami, new cinema paintings
"Bob Dylan's artwork goes on display on Tuesday in Miami at the Patricia and Phillip frost art museum as art Basel Miami kicks off you know it's views it but do you know his artwork it's the most comprehensive exhibition of Bob Dylan's visual art to be held in the U. S. as frost art museum director Jordana Pomeroy touristic that he's eighty years old and ready to be recognized in this new way into this new land the exhibition includes more than a hundred and eighty acrylics watercolors drawings and ironwork sculptures the show runs through April seventeenth I'm Julie Walker
The Art Newspaper Weekly
"basel" Discussed on The Art Newspaper Weekly
"Thank you so much for telling us thank you. It's really great to be hit her over latest art basel reporting at the art newspaper dot com or on our app for ios an android which is available from the app. Store or google. Play coming up. I speak to. Mary bid about her new book. And we look at cristo and jan close final fabric repping of a building in paris. But i hear a few of the top stories on our website. This week is national. Gallery has just acquired a painting which once formed part of hitler's fury museum as massing bailey reports the swiss artist alexandra columbus shelly at region from eighteen sixty one may have once been owned by a jewish victims of the holocaust before being looted for hitler's collection. It was recovered by american troops in ninety.
The Art Newspaper Weekly
"basel" Discussed on The Art Newspaper Weekly
"But you always need some reason to make people part with their money again sort of so basic. But if you don't need another coat a new coat in a shopping you know it's going to be there for the next two years. What's the motivation to go and buy it. And i think a lot of people felt that off as provide that kind of moment where you've got a chance to say to the people make decisions now or somebody else is going to buy it and again if you think about the digital space and you think about what say galleries like a goes. You did in the lockdown with those forty eight hours sales. They were absolutely quite clearly trying to create an event with fixed moment. Where somebody has to say. Actually i need to buy this now because otherwise i mean it's human nature. A lot of us would sit and think about it for quite a long time and might even think about it so long that we've gone off the coat or the picture we with so what about the makeup of galleries at the fair. Does it look much as it has done. In the past overall i would say that the gallery list does look pretty similar. The cool gallery list. The vast majority of galleries who come to basel will want to come to basel. I don't think you can see less bellwether affairs in general It's reached a particular level. I think in the modern contemporary world unoccupied the leading fathom the basel. Fair is the leading factor. So if you're gonna come to any offer you'll get to come to this one. Even in corona virus. Yeh because you will at the very least get access to all these very top. European collectors is nice. I say i heard rumors that some really big americans had come in probably on private jets. So you know. Some very collectors came and the galleries are going to want to come and see them. So the coolest. I think does look pretty similar. I mean the was moment when i turned a corner and saw some. What's by correct fits. And i thought it wasn't the same works. But i really did. Have a sense of deja vu. I was like. I'm sure i saw something very similar here. Two years ago having said that. I mean like all fairs puzzle has sections are specifically designed to encourage new galleries to apply so one of my very laker galleries. Emily which has gone the sort of east end bethnal..
The Art Newspaper Weekly
"basel" Discussed on The Art Newspaper Weekly
"Is one of the things i wanted was to reduce click to base at the fair with that necessarily mean that people conservative in what they did bring because then they would be more guaranteed to sell. Yes absolutely i think for me. Often limited was the first. Let's say not the only one but was the bellwether fat because it opens opens on the monday evening before the main fabric the following day auto limited show mr listeners. Know but just in case you. Don't it's a warehouse space and it's used for very large scale works so could be very big sculpture. Very large paintings often has a lot of video. And it's going to be an early or something up also says it's curated but it's not curated in the way of being is curated so the route themes running through. It does depend what the data's have decided to bring but it can vary from some very very exciting out there installations. You could even have very long video. Just gives a flavor of what people feel is like sell. And i think the thing that was very noticeable. Some years it's very risk-taking some years. It is full auto ferry largest relations. That might have a lot of digital elements incorporated. You could have big videos long videos difficult videos and people are really showing them to show their program. This time. i thought it actually looks really good because it is surprisingly large amount of minimal. Older artists establish masters. Who look very good in this kind of space. So there was a huge. Dan flavin pink. Dan flavin from nine hundred. Seventy four in the middle. The john chamberlain. It's not one of the crushed cars. It's like this huge of tinfoil structure and know it looks absolutely great in there. There's a pink sort of set of pink minimal canvases by tourists baletic. But i just kept thinking. Gosh there's a lot of classic americans hair. There's a lot of mid-century italians here. There's a really fantastic installation of works. By sherrie levine reflect graphs other artists. And this one is cooled off to wrestle lee. Now it's actually quite a more recent work. But when i think of sherrie levine. I think to the seventies early eighties. It's actually so that runs throughout unlimited. A few people have been a little bit more experimental say lawrence. Abby hamdam sound installation installed but by and large. I'm not saying it looks like deer that would be aggrandizing auto limited but it definitely has an odor dare if you notice. I mean it's really curious because of course the fact that this is happening is a landmark moment because the major fairs we had we had the armory. Just have the armory in new york for instance. But you know so. Many major fair postponements. It's been the sort of crisis area of the market really. Does it feel to you like there's a sort of general sense in which this is getting back to normal. What does it feel more like. They still this'll tyrannous. They're still the sense that we're not sure what's coming next. People like this is the first step towards normality. I would say this is the first step towards normality. Actually i think what i would start by was people with very very happy to be back in the fair. The was a bit of a sense of the number of people said it back to school reunion because so many of us there. It was much easier to see people. You know your friends you know. It was also easier to talk to people. You didn't so. I found that i could go up and talk to galleries that i didn't know tool and people were very friendly. Very happy to speak..
The Art Newspaper Weekly
"basel" Discussed on The Art Newspaper Weekly
"Five conversations now after being cancelled last year and postponed earlier this year. The art basel fair finally opened in basel. This week galleries have been nervous about a dearth of collectors. After the us issue do not travel advisory for switzerland at the end of august prompting art basel to send a letter of reassurance and concessions to exhibitors pledging to foot the bill for any hotel quarantine and create a solidarity relief fund apportion doubt to any gathering disappointed with their sales of the fair. So what's it like in basel now. The fares open jane morris and editor at large for the art newspaper has been at the week and i spoke to her about her impressions. Jane teaches ahead of the fair. Because of this advice from the us government about traveling to switzerland where the justice founded or unfounded. Say they will obviously lots of justice before the fast started because if the us travel advisory people didn't expect the americans to come by and large They didn't really expect many visitors from asia. Obviously the america is still the largest section of the market. It's probably won't forty five fifty percent of of the market And asia as we know is growing rapidly now. It has turned out that it was true. The very few americans had the awesome opinion. Sperry on on who and why. But the awesome And i'm sure there will be the old agent collector hair. But but in general there are very very few americans and very very few asians nevertheless it does look like the european collectors have turned out in force. It inevitably feels a little quieter eleven. Am on the first day. I stood outside domestic plots that i went into the central area where i was a little bit earlier because they allow people to flow into the central area and it felt quiet within an hour or two again it felt quieter but there were loss of conversations happening on both floors and several dealers said to me that although they were nervous about those first top lavar actually things started to improve very quickly and i think it would be fair to say that the european collectors have enjoyed certainly the ones. I've spoken to have enjoyed the fact that it's nothing like as crowded you know. The americans often russia in and start making deals really quick. I mean these are gross simplifications. But but this is what tends to happen. Europeans have had longer. They've had more conversations. It's been slow but there's no doubt that the loss of sales have happened. Can you tell me about some of those sales of the galleries. Been you details of. What about what they've sold. Yes i mean. There's actually quite long lists of reported sales coming out now. This been reporting about this scare that song fantasy go as far as i'm aware that's not yet sold. It's priced at reportedly forty million and it's a really good one. It's one thousand nine hundred ninety three. It's called hardware store. It's.
Monocle 24: The Bulletin with UBS
"basel" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Bulletin with UBS
"I guess that big audience then that big a market bring other sensibilities in but interestingly one stat. That really jumped out at me. From the report was about sustainability which we know is a real core theme for particular millennials young entrance into the market but in intriguingly i think in in the piece almost eighty percent even of high net worth existing collectors. Surveyed said they're really thinking about sustainable options when it comes to purchasing are the management of collections and so forth. And this is another interesting thing. I think that brings in one of these big key. Global secular themes that informs all of the discussions. We have on this program. Sustainability is a is a critical issue even within the market. Absolutely i think this is part of sustainability becomes embedded in people's thoughts a across the board. It's not. I recycle bottles. Therefore i am sustainable. That's enough people are being very holistic about sustainability in such a crucial part of of how people live now. And yes that is going to include things like your collection and we've seen obviously there's been been interest in oxford is commenting on the environment designed to manage collections in a sustainable way. If this is something which i think is becoming a key. Part of people's lives and it's very important for the millennial generation who have particularly embraced the stability and the millennial generation of becoming really quite significant as art collectors. They were more significant as purchases of arms than mine generation for example. So you'll start to see a generation that is very very conscious of sustainability in the imperative dealing with the environmental credit crunch actually also becoming a local significant in the art world. And now i think he's. He's going to be setting a trend for years to come paul pastures. Finally i wanted to ask you to reflect just briefly actually answered overall. Ubs house few about about arts and collecting. Generally you alluded to this already. Because it doesn't function just as a pure market. It's very human. It's very sort of intuitive. It's very personal. In fact we're hearing some reflections from my colleague bound here at monocle earlier about the importance of that humanity that immediacy going to art fairs again in person. You get your eyes on works particularly if you think something like painting. It's you can't really capture that truly perhaps or online. Is it difficult. As looking through an economists lens to put a value on that kind of aspect of it the human the emotional and presumably offers a one of these examples because it could be the fact that you could make a big sale. You couldn't make their impression. Is that a hard thing to have. Quantifies the right word but to make sense of it is because in theory if you decided to purchase a piece of opposite matters fair enough but it is an emotional experience people become emotionally involved with. I mean that's awful. Partly point of art is supposed to generate an emotional response can be quite difficult to generate an emotional response over zoo or an emotional response which is in danger. I suppose because that's quite easy to generate on any kind of video conference call. This need to experience in person. Is i think very important but of course it is very difficult to pose a hard economic number on the tend to be honest. And that's because of course what we talking about here with with emotional responses. It's not necessarily a rational response. Frankly too much economics. His is grounded in this nonsense of people. Rational point clearly not so it could become very very difficult to sort of mobile together possession of it. I think as we look for is what we are probably going to win with is more hybrid world as we're seeing in in many other aspects of the office or retail. Whatever think we will end up with a situation where for example affairs will be in person and.
Monocle 24: The Bulletin with UBS
"basel" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Bulletin with UBS
"People are not necessarily turning back and again. That's something we're seeing in other areas of consumption as well where the rise of digital spending has become so important. We are an pull. This is one thing. I really wanted to talk to you about specifically which was how some of these themes in the report fit into. I guess what we would call the conventional economics off spending patterns consumption as you've described. It's interesting reading some of the remarks if your colleague. The chair of the board crystal nevada is talking about the fact that yes that digital acceleration continuing and the fact that that brings with it. These evolutions and challenges to traditional market structures along with new opportunities and again does art mirror. I guess the rest of the economy in that sense in that there are very obvious challenges but also very clear opportunities whether they're two protagonists to already active in the market auto people looking for new opportunities. I think it does up to a point so when we are talking about art in the sense of of the art market report. We have to recognize the galleries in the dealers are not conventional retailers. They it's not like going to a supermarket or a department store that they are providing a service which is the experience the expertise. I mean employees in the arts sector are very highly educated. Overwhelmingly have degrees in very large number have higher degrees doctorates master's degrees which is necessarily because they're providing that expertise as well so this is an area where there are similarities to other areas of retail. But because this is providing a service there is something slightly different about the art market and that personal experience and the interaction with human beings who have expertise in their subject. Matter is very very significant. But i think that the art market was generally quite slow to embrace digital selling the online sales that we've seen in other sectors and the pandemic essentially has forced hot issue. Now what i think is interesting here is that i think by moving to have at least some online sales potentially the art market is opening itself up to new buyers who might have felt quite intimidated about walking into a gallery for the first time you. If art is something that you'll just starting to learn about i and it can be very intimidating world. I mean i. I always found art galleries and dealerships actually quite intimidating spaces but having access online and sort of acquiring a certain amount of knowledge and so easing yourself into the art market initially pass to ally and then acquiring knowledge in discussions. We've gallery owners and dealers and solve that seems to me to be a way of increasing the accessibility of the art market. So i think this shift to digital. It's not going to be quite the retail because of the necessity of having expertise but what it does do. I think he's break down some of the barriers some of the perceived elitism. Because i don't think it's necessarily fab the perceived elitism around the market and democratizing these opening off to our wind up the pulse of the next few years. So i think that's a huge area of potential and pull opening up that democratizing. Call it what you will continues to happen..
Monocle 24: The Bulletin with UBS
"basel" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Bulletin with UBS
"All of those human connections as being in itself enough strategically. What does that look like. Do you think yeah. It's a really interesting question. And i think it's one of these things that you know. Once you've opened the boxes difficult everything stuff away. Your toys back in online sales will make up a lot of sales. They'll make up. A lot of absentee bids were not about auctions but the asian american buyers collectors will be thinner on the ground in switzerland this year. So maybe those online sales would be sort of prearranged that'd be viewing rooms for vip and that sort of thing thoughts but the physical sort of stamps's authority on the digital by virtue of the fact that you can reach out and touch it. I mean i think that that's everyone has missed so much. And i think painting is in the primacy again in an op turned into sort of upside down world. Everyone turns to paintings the thing to invest in the kind of the half the warm hof in the well together around right and people want to see paint. That's not like a photographic prints or something that you can kind of look online and probably fall in love with you need to see this stuff up close and personal. I think that's how the physical stamps authority on it. And as i say again by the all these spokes in the wheel but by by the physical meeting of people missing each other i think is a massive sort of underplayed deal that amount of amazing online viewing rooms and zoom links can ever ever put out a fashion to that point in the galleries and i guess in particular artists who are working and are looking to show their work and they want it to be in front of people's as you say is it simply the case that they they continue to care more about us than digital or do you think in some ways. The lost eighteen months have challenged some of the preconceptions. Even from if you like traditionalist. And i don't mean that pejoratively. Yeah i think well. I think i mean think all this is interesting question autism more into art never ever been before because they're a huge name. A lot of your mark is disappeared. The middle ground has fallen out of the market. Because it's not so easy to see that stuff online. The bigger artists boosted up the larger galleries have the better online viewing rooms and the big production values and all the rest of it so think artists having been occasionally you know you don't see too many office offers but you see doing the talks and you see them hanging around at the policies and things like that but i think you see more. I think people realized how much they've missed them. I went to london a couple of weeks ago and was really really busy and it was really nice to see as kind of test you might say for something as big as art. Basel was really nice to see. It was nice. See lots of photographers there. Lots of people really engaged and using it as a curatorial exercise and as a social gathering as much as marketplace so all these ingredients go into that. That's her happy suit. I think experience in basel robbo bound. Thank you very much. well next. Let's take the temperature of the art market in the week that art basel returns and also reflect on the bigger economic picture. Ubs an art basel last week jointly published that media review entitled resilience in the dealer sector here to talk to us about some of the findings to put them in a broad economic. Context is our good friend and regular contributor paul donovan polls chief economist and ubs global wealth management pull. It's great tiffany as ever. Thanks for joining us on the program. Let me ask you a little bit about the peace. Which once again klay mcandrew has helped. Ubs art basel to produce here..
Monocle 24: The Bulletin with UBS
"basel" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Bulletin with UBS
"Thinkers in finance. Take you beyond the numbers in height right to the heart of the big issues of the day. Today we're off to the fair basel to be more specific which is making a much anticipated. Return this week as well as gauging. What the appetites themes in conversations might be on the floor of the fair itself on the program. We're also going to take timely. Dip into ubs basel's jointly published mid year review resilience in the dealer sector authored by the renowned cultural economist. And friend of this program don't declare mckendry in the lead up to basel's returned the survey presents and analysis of the global dealer sector in first half of the year amidst he continued challenges of the pandemic. The analysis is based on responses from over seven hundred dealers operating in art and antiques markets in more than fifty regions or countries. It also integrates fresh insights from a survey of five hundred high net worth collectors across five key markets before we hear from ubs global wealth management's chief economist on themes like the role of sustainability collected engagement market resilience and attitudes around the digital realm. Let's start with a quick thought on what art basel itself might have in store for. Attendees this week and maybe a reflection or to also on just what we've been missing over the last eighteen months or so during various lockdowns and limits on fares and travel joining nato ponder. Those questions is robert bound monocle senior editor and a man who seen quite a lot of fairs in his time robot bound. Can i describe you as a veteran tender in a polite way. Just did yeah. You're saying of being around. What can we expect art. Basel returns kind of the end of the week. And it's very exciting for a lot of market watchers and so forth. But i guess maybe give sense given. You've attended art basel often and lots of other fairs. What have we been missing over the last kind of eighteen months. So that physical moment on we've be missing. Getting eyeballs engage with the paint with sculpture with wonderful works of art. Those physical meetings with gareth with friends with dealers with curator so much businesses done that is not art market business. Not the sort of top line of commercial galleries. Of course a little of that will be done next week. I'm sure basel looking forward to a profitable fair. But i think most of all all of us are kind of wishing for a fair. That's sort of profit on a bit more of a sort of pasta sense right. We want to meet the people. We've missed and this is the real the first big deal fair. That's gonna come back physically there. Hong kong iteration kind of came back in the in the spring Which was good but it had these kind of famous ghost booths where people kind of flu in there that works but not their staff as a bit of a strange one. This is the first one. It'll be back as it kind of real deal. I think you know the the market and curator's and all sorts of different sort of spokes of the wheel just super excited. I'm rob how do you think then fares go about the job. Which i suppose is kind of important of reclaiming that primacy if you like we know about the shift to digital. It's been expedient it makes sense we understand it but how defers go about. Doing that is about the works. They show ken. They rely on people's joyous returns..
The Community Cats Podcast
"basel" Discussed on The Community Cats Podcast
"What millennials are for for their pets than you're gonna miss it completely so we like to focus on that particular mix of products well and as an entrepreneur you have to invest to grow and as an investor and entrepreneur and an investor in a company. You know companies take off and companies. Don't and you know what you need to do. In order to make them take off. So you know you've got that experience in your background so you know what it needs to take in order to get there so as a business owner and with a lot of successful business experience in your background. Those of us. We have a lot of nonprofit folks that listened to us. But i still think of them as business owners to. They're still running a business. They still have to do all the things that they need to do. They report to a board which is very challenging in many cases. Do you have any advice for folks that are managing businesses as well as many times. They're also the folks that are out there doing the trapping for the tr. And they're they're doing the doing as well as managing the business and you know since you've worn a lot of different hats. Do you have any advice for our listeners. Persistence you know. I think over the last thirty years. I've learned a lot about sticking to your execution plan and then executing unfortunately it's a pitfall a lot entrepreneurs will fall into very early on as bills. Mount and costs tend to exceed revenue. Surround yourself with a tremendous team. I've had the same group of people with me for about fifteen years. And i think it's indicative of the way retreat our group and vice versa. And so that's critical and to get down to the pragmatics of what really happens. It's getting through the financial gaps. You know it's finding away to cover those those gaps in and grow your business in a lot of times. The doorways to do that and i think a lot of times people quit too soon and then the other one. I think the last one would be fail fast to win big. Sometimes you're wrong and you need to recognize that get out and do something else. And so there's a fine line between quitting too early and not recognizing dead vehicle or that product right right understanding when to get out and find that exit plan pretty quickly will tolerate when you have something. Good all right right exactly. I mean we've all had to be game. Changers with regards to cova. businesses changed. Dramatically opportunities have opened up as well as many doors have closed. Unfortunately but i'm going to segue back to your team because this is a big question. I get a lot from folks which is how do you find good team members. I mean how do you find these people. And then how do you hold onto them. And i mean i maybe the holding onto him. We treat them with respect. We treat them with care. We clarity maybe those kinds of things but the findings seems to be an incredible challenge. Do you have any tips on that for me. This less about finding and more about cultivating the right person. I have a couple of people that were managing millions of dollars in the office in our last concern that had no college degree twenty year house persons. That haven't worked in but had the right. The right attitude came in and you know we took what we call our entrepreneurial spirit..
The Community Cats Podcast
"basel" Discussed on The Community Cats Podcast
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The Community Cats Podcast
"basel" Discussed on The Community Cats Podcast
"You wanted to adapt your cat to the products that you offer or else even like if you're feeding a colony of cats that you know who knows what they're eating at other places. How would you recommend you know. Transitioning them to this food or are we okay. Offering this food to our community cats With respect to transition when it comes to raw we start with slow transition. So we'll do a little bit of whatever they're accustomed to mixed in with the raw to clean quarter twenty five percent of whatever the recommended serving is for the size of the cap and then slowly increased that over time. You'll see very quickly whether or not your cats could be able to will reject it or not. I would say by and large. There's usually a process where there's the finicky miss that goes on whether or not there. We haven't had any cats by the way. Turn away straight protein in both our chicken and turkey format but usually within about four days. I'm up to about one hundred percent feed all of the animals in our house now on one hundred percent raw diet and i'm comparing that to they on a traditional kibble standard diet about two years ago and then as we continue evolve the brand. We'd move to one hundred percent. Ron the differences are tremendous just overall coat the mouth the amount of waste that they produce in the yard. It's pretty significant. We're firm believers raw. Because yeah i mean. I think what goes in the mouths of our pets as well as what goes in the mouths of ourselves to. I don't know if you're a low carb. Guy by reducing grains in humans diet is probably not a bad idea. Either so i you know. I can imagine you'll see the same results with regards to your pets too. And there's so many grains involved in the commercially processed foods that really impacts you know their digestion and that kind of thing give your feline friend. Protein packed meals..
Flash Forward
"basel" Discussed on Flash Forward
"Law hello and welcome to flash forward. I'm rose and i'm your host. Flesh forward is a show about the future every episode we take on a specific possible or sometimes not quite so basel future scenario. We always start every episode with a little field trip into the future to check out what's going on and then we teleport back to today. Talk to experts about how the world that we just heard might actually go down. Got it great this episode. We are starting in the year. Twenty forty four. And we're actually going to do this episode a little bit differently. Today we are tackling two different futures. Both centered around nighttime. So what if humans tried to become nocturnal or what if we tried to do the opposite and really run a fully twenty four seven society. What might drive us to adopt the night and what would happen if future children were born into it. Could we all take shifts throughout a twenty four hour day or would that drive us off a collective cliff so join me as we enter two versions of nightmares morning. Sunshine house work. Nothing super exciting report. Nancy forgot to chefs so prison down. But.
AP News Radio
Barzal shines as Islanders beat Sabres for 4th straight win
"The islanders scored four goals in the second period to a race of one nothing deficit and defeat the Sabres five to two it was a highlight reel worthy goal for Matthew bars all that open the floodgates as cal Clutterbuck Brock Nelson and Scott may feel each found the back of the net unders Lee added the final goal in the third period Lee credited Basel's goal with energizing the bench in the second sets the Wade party scored that goal I think and I mean we've seen him do stuff like that all the time especially this year he's got a few pretty highlight reel goals but I mean that's just it's high level hockey right there the win helped extend the under control of the east division lead and move their home record to nine into the loss of buffalo six in a row Christian Arnold Uniondale New York
Bloomberg Businessweek
Jack Ma's Ant Group: World's biggest market debut suspended
"The top of his report about really? What is our top story are most red Story number one. On the Bloomberg terminal about China, suspending the Shanghai and Hong Kong debut of Aunt groups $35 billion offering. It was supposed to be the world's biggest IPO was supposed to happen Thursday. But it's not you knew about it. Thanks to Bloomberg New Economy editorial director Andy Brown. He's written and talked About how Antz biggest obstacles maybe the Chinese government and he is with us again on the phone in New York City, and I am so glad you're here. You know this headline hit and I think for a lot of people, it was a bit shocking. But you did write about this and kind of gave us all a heads up in a column he wrote last month. Why is it though China is doing this. You know, Jack Ma has always had an uneasy, ambiguous relationship with Chinese authorities he wants with his famously quoted saying, Love the government. But don't marry them. In other words, keep your distance, and regulators have never quite known what to make of Jack Ma. On the one hand, they look at him as the big opportunity. He's clearly a disruptive He's bringing a lot of small and medium sized enterprises into the formal economy. Putting capital that way. On the other hand, there's always being the sense among regulated that he's an accident waiting to happen. They haven't been able to decide and yesterday or today, rather They did. They decided that he's too much of a risk. And they're reining him in well. And why wait, though? Kind of to the 11th hour. You know, Andy, this is obviously a company that they've been looking at for some time. Why is it You know, is it just because Thie AIPO finally said to them we've got we've got a really now look at this more closely and maybe do something about it. Well, he made me He made a terrible a terrible political mistake. It was at a conference recently in Shanghai lit into Chinese and international financial regulators basically called them all a bunch of rusty old folks holding back innovation, stunting the dreams of young people. No, not under not understand. He said that the Basel accord with an old people and old people, he said banks in China were basically had a had a pawnshop mentality and settle this at a conference where the headline of the keynote speaker with one Cheap son He's one of the most powerful man in China, formerly he was the anti corruption czar. It is also one of the godfathers of the Chinese banking system. And once she Shawn's line at that conference with completely opposite his line was we have to be cautious. Safety First and Jack Mark comes in and says, We gotta rip it all up and start again. Long Qi Sean. Obviously, his arguments have won the day. Yeah, I
Freakonomics
Is NYC on its deathbed?
"Last month executives from more than one hundred and sixty of New York City's largest employers, banks, and law firms, sports, leagues, and Real Estate Developers sent a letter to the Mayor Bill De Blasio. They warned that his poor management of the pandemic was threatening long-term damage. There is widespread anxiety the wrote over public safety cleanliness and other quality of life issues that are contributing to deteriorating conditions in commercial districts and neighborhoods across the five boroughs. The five boroughs of New York. City to see you know are the Bronx Manhattan Brooklyn Queens and Staten Island. Also just so you know Bill de Blasio is Democrat who even before the pandemic was almost comically unpopular. We don't need to get into the details, but if you want to read up on him, just do a search for de Blasio that's DB L. A. S.. and. Then arrogant or hypocrite even schmuck. Considered this campaign ad from a fellow Democrat. The less bill de Blasio is the worst mayor in the history of new. York. City and that is. Rose. Congressman. You don't sound very happy about that. Blacks Rose Macau. Grossman now you and I happen to know each other a little bit through a family connection. My son, has worked on your campaign in in your office in DC. Do you saw me swear to not let that relationship influence this interview I solemnly swear rose represents new. York's eleventh district historically the only congressional district in the city, the votes Republican it includes all of Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn one of the highest rates of unionization of any district in America cops firemen. Teachers. Nurses. First. Responders Sanitation Workers, folks who we just recently started calling essential workers but quite frankly, they were always essential like every member of the House of Representatives rose is up for re election in. I don't care about politics my friend. Not Right now. On employment skyrocketing the economy in disarray people fearful further. Fearful. For their future of their families the time to be thinking about how to help people making government finally work again, people are so disgusted with their government that's on the left, the middle and the right. You recently said there is no reason that every single teacher in New York City should not be tested at least every other day as far as I know that's not even close to happening. It's not happening because a failure of leadership a failure of imagination nobody has confidence in this city right now there's no plan there's no solidarity. There's no resources with a system of pool testing with a system with New York City is acting almost as if it is a venture capitalist, it comes to figuring out the most innovative ways to beat the pandemic investing in them early on with private partnerships and then dramatically scaling them. There's no reason we couldn't be testing every single teacher every other day we asked Mayor de Blasio for an interview but he declined there are at least two reasons why in political circles de Blasio is considered particularly unskilled last year he spent a lot of time outside the city for president even though he had virtually no constituency. He's also managed to annoy the one person a New York City mayor can't afford to annoy the governor of New York Andrew Cuomo. New York mayors have a history of acting like the most powerful person in one of the most important cities in the world which to be honest it's not entirely inaccurate. A lot of the city's leverage runs through Albany the state capital what we need, and what this has not done is we need someone who's willing to exist in reality. Guess what if you want the city the prosper you need the governor. If you want the city to prosper, you shouldn't be at tagging housing them. You should be working with him but as Max rose season, the Basel Administration was failing New York long before covid hit in some ways the mayor and his administration took up a new form of laissez faire economics where they said well, we don't have to invest in the future of this city because people have to stay here, people will need to stay here. People will always come here and build their businesses. We don't have to do anything. Well, that's of course, not the case this is a competitive country and it is a competitive world. During the pandemic New York City's been competing with neighbors like New Jersey and Connecticut, and New York suburbs also Florida and Arizona in Nashville Austin those at least are a few of the places that some New Yorkers have fled to. But how many? The truth is no one really knows yet. Pre pandemic the city's population was eight point three million. The New York Times analyzing cell phone data from that four hundred, twenty thousand people had left the city between March and may most of them wealthier residents with a second home. But that measurement has an obvious limitation leaving the city with your cellphone doesn't mean you won't return especially if you own your home since right now is not the easiest time to sell a New York apartment. Here's another probably better metric since March, roughly two, hundred, fifty, thousand New Yorkers have filed with the post office to change their mailing address. That's about double the number from the same period last year. So that suggests roughly one hundred and twenty-five thousand higher than normal outflows that goes with a significant decline also hard to measure in the number of people moving into new. York. Still in a city of eight point, three million, this doesn't seem to qualify as a mass exodus. To. Get a slightly finer greened look at population outflow. We called up Nancy Wu I'm an economist at St Easy where I look at the trends about real estate and then create analyses to tell stories about the data street easy is listing service used by landlords and renters, buyers, and sellers and real estate agents. It manages a pretty impressive database. I have access to all of the market data on the sales and the rentals listings in the universe of real estate listings in New York, city and what has seen since the. So Manhattan rental inventory as of July there's been thirty seven thousand listings on the market that is a sixty five percent growth from last July and how about in say Queens and Queens you should now has two point, two, million people whereas Manhattan has only one point six, million in Queens there six, thousand, six, hundred listings on the market, and that's a twenty six percent increase from last July. So inventory grew everywhere when looking at the borough level but grew way more Manhattan. So that's some rental data. What about home sales in July? There's thirty seven percent fewer Manhattan. That went into contracts than in the same month last year there's largely been a fast forwarding of the natural attrition of the City so New Yorkers were planning on moving to the suburbs within one to two years are doing. So now instead so these New Yorkers are taking advantage of the low mortgage rates to move to the suburbs. So that's another hint that the outflow may not be as apocalyptic as some people think at least not yet that may be more of a one time acceleration of constant trend. Although of course, those outflows are usually countered by inflows will keep moving into New York. There are a lot of reasons to suspect not particularly in the short term, the city is diminished and it remains relatively expensive especially housing although that too is changing at least a bit in Manhattan rents fell by three percents year over year since last July that's the biggest decline we've seen since agree recession when rents fell ten percent but Wu says, we may be seeing only the beginning of this trend we do expect Manhattan rents could fall by more than ten percent because there's a lot of factors where the pandemic has more impact on rents than the great recession did. That may be especially true for two reasons. The first is that a recovery from pandemic is likely even more uncertain than recovery from a financial crash. The second is that the pandemic isn't done doing its damage on the economy just last week, we saw tens of thousands of new layoffs and furloughs announced by firms like Disney and united and American Airlines and even when jobs aren't based in New York City, there is a trickle down effect on the financial services and banking industries here on consulting and accounting firms on commercial real estate and the hospitality sector. A recent audit by the New York State Comptroller reported that over the next year between the third and a half of New York City's restaurants and bars may close permanently.
5 Minutes in Church History
The History Of Martin Micronius
"On this episode, five minutes in Church history. We are returning to the reformation and talking about a reformer that you might have never heard of before Martin Micronesia's he was born in fifteen, twenty, three engagement and Flanders when I hear the word gant or the place can't always think of the altarpiece that beautiful painting. So Martin Mike Kronius is Dutch. It appears that he was a medical doctor and studied medicine, and there's even testimony that he published medical works. But then he got intrigued by the reformation and became a reformer he studied at Basel at Strasbourg, and then in fifteen forty nine, he went to London there in London he became associated with John Alaska this was the Polish reformer who also ended up in London And he and Martin my Kronius and a few others were intent on establishing a little Geneva in London. This would be a place for a European reformers to be in. London, they were not Lutherans. Anglicans they were reformed and they were trying to carve out a place for themselves. Well, he lasco published a few works to help for the liturgy and in the work by Martin. Is was published in London in fifteen, fifty four. He says this on the Ministry of the word. No church gathering is ever held among us in which the church is not taught to some extent from God's word in order for it to be edified, admonished and comforted, and for very good reasons, the scriptures are not expounded in sermons on is located parentheses as in the practice among the papists. Instead we take some book of the Bible either from the old or the New Testament, and we expound it from the beginning to the end in all sermons. We successfully read from this book as much as can be edifying, -Ly and properly expounded and explained within one hour. If necessary the ministers of the word are also admonished not to go too much beyond the scope of their text in their preaching rather they should as much as possible take all their teaching admonishment exhortation rebuke in comfort from the present text. So there you have it, you stick with the text, but you also see that this sermon was an hour long. So these Dutch as we know are tough the service that he also was trying to get established. There at this church in London, we not only have the sermon. In fact, it would start off with a prayer prayer for elimination. Then there'd be the Lord's prayer. Then they'd read a psalm. Then they'd read a scripture that the sermon was from and then you'd have the sermon the hour long sermon. Then they would pray for strength and by that, they mean to live out the meaning of that sermon and to live out the application of that sermon. then. They would read the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments. Yes. Every Sunday reading through the Ten Commandments. Then there would be a brief admonishment related to the Ten Commandments. Then there would be a confession of sin than there would be a prayer of forgiveness and then there would be a warning to the impertinent those that were not willing to confess their sins. Then, they'd recite the apostles creed than there would be prayers for intercession of the congregation than the Lord's prayer. Then another psalm, then a- benediction and that was the service that Martin my Kronius was trying to establish there in. London. Well, all of these efforts came to a halt when Edward the six died and he was replaced by his half sister. Mary. And you know this is the time of Marian exiles and One of those exiles was Martin my Kronius he ended up in Norton in Germany, which is on the North Sea. while. He was there. He held some debates with Meno Simon's yes of the Mennonites and he also published his catechism in fifteen, fifty five in Dutch and it was there in Norton that he died fifteen, fifty nine well, that is Martin, my Kronius, the Dutch reformer in London.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
Update On The Leadership Conference In Sweden
"The world is ripe and ready for restarting and looking ahead. So where better to get a clear and uninterrupted view than from the eastern Swiss Alps and that is the setting for the chiefs. Monaco's. Conference which welcomes visionaries, founders and industry leaders for look ahead how business and indeed the whole world could move forward from here well. Is, tyler lay and he students all through the day's event at Subaru in summer. It's and I'm delighted to say he's taken a moment out of the conference to join us now to tell us what is happening where he is tyler apart from the obvious attraction from the chairlift right to an Alpine dinner, it must feel good to bring people together again. Good afternoon. Good afternoon Emma absolutely, and I think that has been one of the probably. Comment people just feel so good to be out in the world again and just meeting people in a setting which feels pretty normal I. I don't think there's much going on here that would make you think otherwise that we are still in in the midst of course cases rising in Europe, we have Orrin teams being imposed and and and borders also going up as well. So I I think that is. One of the people are just happy to be together and be listening to great ideas and and and I think also to be challenged. A little bit as well. We'll Tennessee little bit more about these challenges because people are coming together facing momentous challenges. What is it the world trying to focus on here? Well number, we just had a failed bomb nora failed bomb is the CEO of vitro. Of course, one of the world's most respected design brands I imagine in many many listeners right now are right likely sitting on a beatrice AU faux or chair or stool or in front of a desk. Here's a business, which is which is completely focused on the topic of what is going to happen to our city centers you know will work from home account for fifty percent of the workforce is going to be twenty percent. So we tackle that issue. It. With her and it was interesting. You know she was talking about are we may be moving into a world of spoke Yes. They'll be a main office in a city that will there almost almost More like owned and operated co working spaces where people come together. So that was one topic but then we just had a our he's the head of the the intermeshed. With the Red Cross and the and he was looking at at the current crises. The fact that we have a pandemic Emma but of course, get thirty messy parts of the world is he talks about this hasn't gone away and he's just a literally almost fresh off the plane from a mission in Mali, And Burkina into Hell region. What I find interesting is is the names of the people you've gathered that. We oversee have world of of of of vitro, but then. We have the head of security policy in the Swiss Federal Department of Defence Civil Protection and sport you mentioned now we have the head of the red. Cross. These are figures from the world of dealing with emergencies. Does that reflect the kind of times that we're in? Will it does because you're going to have an informed view about about risk and where the world is going. Then I think you do need people who are at the pointy end that that point he and might be how is a small but very economically successful. Country like Switzerland, how is it going to navigate geopolitical issues that wide Switzerland potentially need forty new fighter aircraft at a time when people talk of drones and and country, which is known as being neutral, and at the same time, you also want to hear from someone who's the head of risk for one of the biggest banks who can of course, apply some of these elements as well to a of. Course, the end consumer, the person who wants to go in byproducts from that that bank and how does that impact your day to day? How are we able to look ahead at the moment I mean is what we're talking about today stuff that we need to deal with at that pointy end in the next six months to one year or is there any sense yet that people can sink a little further ahead? Well I think actually North Alabama interesting because someone else oppose a similar question about short-term. What are you doing right now with marketing just how do you look at advertising? How do you promote a brand right now how do you stay top of mind and then what you do long term and her response with where we're a family company from Basel we have time and and so of course, we continue to develop an invest in great furniture and we and we take we take a long-term view. And yes you also have to be mindful of of the realities of up today as well. I mean is she's a little later on the conference to be talking about. The chiefs as a future when you talk about sustainability. And yesterday, the president of the European commissioners of a funder line was saying that we will rebuild our way out as a covert pundit DEMOC following an entirely green agenda. But when you have things like you know you're orderbook isn't as full as it should be your staff coming back from furlough and you're thinking, how am I going to make it through the next six months and people are saying actually you need to be green a you need to think about this you need to think about that. The priorities become quite quite challenging they. Absolutely. And I think that you know that that is one of the topics I mean, how much does you could talk about sustainability all you want but you know does. Your does your program, which of course has the best intentions is that we need to take a back seat for because you know that was going to involve retooling your factory. You knew that it was going to actually mean of course, upping the prices or accepting a more expensive supply chain, and maybe that has to get not kicking the grass necessarily, but it maybe has to drift out maybe three years I according to your plan and i. think that is also something we've heard you today is well, if if you're going to do these things aren't easy a lot of his. Let's walk at first before we talk and try to either talk green credentials are sustainability agenda and I think actually on that probably the one thing that I think is really coming out of the conference so far I'm as is. Being a by the let's let's let's invest in things that last And it really interesting to hear. You have MS failed I'm talking about you know if you go and buy an eames chair and I believe you're probably sitting in an email chair right now if I know it studio you're in. Those comes with a thirty year guarantee. Extraordinary and you know that has to be now and again you know is the entire chair perfectly sustainable no but it's not going to be in in five years either it's absolutely not in it's been comfortable for very long time finally looking into this afternoon. You're taking the floor talking to us about a few things that have caught your eye that you like and that if it's inspired you I mean we we have to be lifted out of this somehow what are you talking about them? Well. After lunch I I do a spin around the world and of course, the look at some things that yeah. Basic things that I that I experienced in everyday life, which which I think are are interesting that we we might need we might need more of so and I think probably one thing I was going to slide them. And you'll appreciate this. There's a lot of Austria and they're the world maybe needs a little bit. You know even though of course I'm standing in Switzerland at the moment. But if I if I look across the the mountains look across the border I know that Austria lies beyond and there's definitely whether it's brands whether it's the urban interventions that the world needs a little bit more Austria it full of wisdom of real and I'm just Sitting next to our affairs at a Christian mccue is half Australian I've never seen warranties thumbs up in all my days time. Thank you so much.
America First with Sebastian Gorka
Chocolate snow dusts Swiss town after Lindt chocolate factory malfunction
"A fine cocoa powder. After a ventilation system and a chocolate factory malfunction. The chocolate company confirmed reports that there was a minor defect in the cooling ventilation for a line of roasted cocoa Nibs. In its factory in Alton between Zurich and Basel. The company says one car was lightly coated, and it's offered to pay for any cleaning needed more on these stories, a townhall dot com Balance
5 Minutes in Church History
James Montgomery Boice
"Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in Church history on this episode we will be in the twentieth century visiting with James Montgomery Boyce. Doctor Boyce was born on July seven, nine, thousand, nine, hundred, thirty, eight. He lived in a bedroom community of Pittsburgh. was quite a high school athlete. His Dad was a doctor and position voice for a fine education as a high school student voice was sent to the Stony Brook School and New York. He was mentored by Frank E. Gabe line, Biblical, scholar and theologian in his own right. Well after Stony Brook Voice went to Harvard for his undergraduate, and then he went to Princeton for his give. After that he was on his way to Basel for a PhD in theology while he was in Basel all there were a group of people who pressured him to start a Bible study, and he started a Bible study that became a church and to this day there is an evangelical church there in Basel that great, reformation city. And there's a church there founded by doctor. Boyce well. He graduated from Basel and Nineteen. Sixty six and two years later in nineteen, sixty eight, he was installed as the Minister of Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church near Rittenhouse Square on Spruce Street and Philadelphia Historic Church its. Spire went way into the sky, and its organ and its pipes could be heard throughout the city on a Sunday morning. Well in the nineteen seventies and nineteen, seventy, four to be exact Boyce started the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology. And in those early years people would gather there and intense church to hear John, Gersh ner and a young RC sprawl and J I packer and others, this constellation of reformed theologians in Nineteen, seventy, eight, a number of them joined together informed. The International Council for Biblical and A boy served as the chairman Dr. Scroll served as the President and see put out the Chicago statement on an errand see. They established themselves for a ten year run, and that was the life they had a voice also helped establish the Alliance for confessing evangelicals and nineteen ninety-four. That group stood strong against the evangelicals and Catholics together document, and took a stand for justification by faith alone well, in addition to those organizations. We have the books that doctor. Boyce wrote one of them. Foundations of the Christian faith is his systematic theology. It's billed as a comprehensive and readable theology. He also wrote renewing your mind in a mindless age, and another one of his books to cities to loves is subtitled Christian responsibility and a crumbling culture in addition to those books. He was known for his. Commentaries these of course grew out of his many sermons preached from Nineteen Sixty eight to the year two thousand from the pulpit of Tenth Presbyterian Church. She did a five volume series on John that was published a four volume series on Romans, two volumes on the minor prophets, three volumes on genesis and three volumes on the psalms. They're also commentaries on acts flippy in Nehemiah, Joshua Equations and Philippians and a few more books well Dr Voice was married to Linda. They had three daughters, nineteen, eighty, eighty-two Linda and Dr, Boyce. The city. Centre Academy School there in Philadelphia. On the morning of Good Friday, April twenty, one, two thousand Doctor Boyce was diagnosed with cancer. He died eight weeks later on June fifteen, two thousand. During those eight weeks he had one more thing to write in. There were hymns. He wrote thirteen in all. One of them is entitled Hallelujah. The other come to the waters, an invitation for all who have no money, but are thirsty, and those who have no funds about are hungry to come to the waters to come to the fountain to drink freely of Christ.
All Things Considered
New online platform might provide hope for Los Angeles art galleries struggling during COVID-19
"It is tough to see art in person when virtually all in person gatherings have been canceled you're relegated to seeing work online which you have to admit isn't really the same thing so what does that mean means art galleries are hurting because sales are way down some of those galleries could even close their doors for good but a new online platform that is the brain child of LA art dealer Jeffrey died chin name you may be familiar with in the art world is offering a glimmer of hope for local galleries and for the artists whose work they exhibit our art insider and greater LA regular contributor Lindsey Preston's Abbas is editor in chief a contemporary art review Los Angeles she's here to talk about it hi Lindsay Hey Steve before we get on to this new platform I guess can you give us a broad overview of what's what's the state of LA art galleries right now are they making any sales at all you know it's honestly a bit of a mixed bag from who I've talked to obviously as you said it not being able to see the working person is making a pretty big impact and and a lot of these exhibitions are kind of on hold or had to close early and a lot of galleries have reported that you know they're having to lay people off and even facing closure there was actually just an LA times article by Caroline Maranda that came out were they surveyed thirty five galleries and twenty five percent said that they might close as a result of this but other galleries I've spoken to are doing okay so it's a bit it's a case by case I'd say I do want to know about this new platform though I mean how is it different from what galleries and some art fairs are already doing online because you know we've seen that you know this this sort of coalescing of of galleries yeah I think when you first hear about it you're like okay what's going to make this different and unique but the really cool things so this was initiated as you said by Jeffrey Deitz who has spaces here in LA and also New York and he kind of had this idea and he quickly assembled an operating committee of about fifteen or so galleries and then they got sixty LA galleries on board so this is really a home grown operation dates you know for industry that sometimes can be a bit competitive it's really inspiring to see them all come together for a joint effort the goal unlike you know art fairs like art Basel or things like that that have gone online is really to support the diversity of of the LA art scene and a range of gallery sizes from tiny you know artist run spaces all the way up to the big guys well look I mean let's talk about this bigger galleries if if everybody's in competition even the small diverse is the the larger ones I mean why is it in their interest to help out the smaller struggling spaces do you think the larger galleries are acknowledging that effort that the small galleries put in to really feed what they're doing so it's almost like it's like the farm system in baseball right like minor league teams like helping out the major league teams right yes we need a sports reference that's perfect yes the smaller galleries often are in this mode of discovering young artists giving them their first shows kind of building their career you know some of these bigger galleries like the Goshen you can't just walk in and ask for a show and if they haven't already heard of you they're not gonna show you you know so it's really key that the small galleries kind of feed into the larger ones and it's really cool that the big ones are acknowledging that the smaller galleries are much more vulnerable in this time and they need to support them right how's it gonna work I mean if you if you see something on the platform that you like can you just buy it I mean do you added to your cart and then check out I believe how it will work as a site will always point back to each gallery's website to kind of close the deal or make the sale also through the site you can then finds that galleries contact and reach out to them directly and the goal is that one is featured on the scholar platform also nearer especially ones were able to kind of go back to galleries again that what's on this platform will near exhibitions that are actually at the gallery
Radio From Hell
‘The Batman' Movie Gets New Release Date
"Matt Reeves says that the the his Batman movie currently stalled in London so that's not finished yet I guess so I don't think they were about two months into production and I had to shut down yeah he says that he thinks they'll be be able to open up but it won't be until June twenty fifth next year next summer but in the first weekend of October next year October one the spot made famous by DC's are rated joker Reeves said that once it's safe to resume production the plan is to finish the batsman in London instead of relocating a quarter of the film was shot Reeves is currently sifting through footage Bettman moves to date where both paramount twentieth century studios have untitled movie slated to go in there's a there's a movie version of the flash coming she is a M. two and the Basel Armand Sabah's Warman's untitled Elvis Presley movie starring Tom Hanks I I guess that was finished book pretty much by the time Hanks got the
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
Travel to the Alsace Region of France
"I'd like to welcome to the show. Brady read from a world vegan TRAVEL DOT com. Who has come to talk to us about the all sauce Brady? Welcome to the show It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you so much for having me and I've already learned something because I was the first thing I came out of my mouth when we started talking. I was saying it wrong about who you want to put it on a map force. Yeah absolutely so the else. Region of France is in the east of France its shares but if a border with Switzerland and also Germany. So it's really in the east central part of France and there's some things that are unusual about this area which will get into. But why should someone go to the all Saas Festival frats just generally speaking is of course a very very popular destination? One of the reasons why. I think France is so appealing. Is that each of the regions So different and also is particularly interesting. In my opinion for a number of reasons so festival is a little bit of like a cultural exception to France and what I mean by that is had a huge influence from Germany over its history and indeed. Alsace has actually been part of Germany and part of France and has it flopped many times over the past hundred years and I believe that before the first world war it was part of Germany for a while and then it went back to France after nine. One thousand nine hundred eighteen when lost the war and then of course it went back to Germany during the Second World War and then went back to France after the war ended so because of this it has a huge amount of German influence in terms of the architect jar in terms of some of the cultural aspects. It even has its own dialect. Which maybe isn't so surprising because actually have quite a number of dialects there but Alsatian is actually quite similar to Swiss German. Actually and actually little trivia there. The USA foundation was actually banned in nineteen forty five however raising white was banned was because they didn't France after the war they didn't want any German influenced in the languages. I believe and when they realized that this was probably wasn't a good idea to ban language like this they actually made it sort of officially able to be used again and now it's the second largest dialect in France although not so many people speak it now and it really is a mixture of all German and French so there are so many reasons but I'll start off with that. It's very different to the rest of France Sir and you mentioned that it was German at the beginning of World War One and became German after the Franco Prussian war in eighteen. Seventy that was when it was acquired by Germany which is shortly really after Germany becomes Germany at that point in terms of Germany becoming got country. So excellent will. What kind of are you going to recommend for us? Well I mean L. S. Is just such a fantastic destination? Because it's really sort of small enough that you can get a really good sense. Some feel of the place and see a wide range of different things in a short amount of time so first of all. I'd love to chat about like getting there because this is really changed in just the past few years so the first time. I went to Alsace which was twenty years ago. Now it required. I mean we know that French trains are extremely efficient but they didn't have any TGV's at all and certainly not the fast tracks until just two thousand sixteen. I think it was so it went from being able to get there in five six hours from Paris to being in central Paris to Strasbourg. Lose in just two hours so it's really really accessible now any for French people but those people coming into France or maybe even want to just add a little. Stay IN AL's Asif that bison themselves in Paris I mean you can even come down for the day. Is that a train that is running from the guard. Dalil I believe so yes yes. It is so young in there so many wonderful things that you can do like I said. There's a real mixture between towns and villages and Cities Festival Strasbourg. That is a really great place to include on your itinerary and I can certainly talk more about what travelers can experience there and this beautiful towns of Karma which is much smaller. You also have the incredible voege mountains to the west of Al Sas and then just across the border into Germany. You have the Black Forest Mountain. They're back forest mountains. Which really beautiful. You had the wine route as well which is beautiful scenic road a scenic road. Where not only do you get to stop off in villages where you can taste wines which very scenic and beautiful but also the countryside? There is just so stunning as well. But it's also really good point to jump over and get three countries for one so to speak by going over the border in Germany. There are some really lovely towns just across the border in baden-baden Okara through and also Basel in Switzerland is a really cool destination as well. So yeah that's kind of a very brief overview. Well where are we going to start? Well I guess because stop in Strasbourg if you like. It seems like a good place to start stress. Book is I think I believe. It's the tenth largest city in France and it is quite an international city because the European Parliament is there so it's love Europeans that are living there who are involved in European politics. And not only is stressful. Like the capital of Alsace and have this focus as being the head of the European Parliament. It's also extremely scenic and the Cathedral itself is absolutely studying. It's widely considered to be one of the best and it's like the Second Tulips Cathedral in the whole of France. And it's considered to be just an incredible example of romanesque architecture and Lepetit class which is like a little region very small area in the center of Strasbourg is actually UNESCO. World Heritage as France has so many UNESCO heritage sites lepetit. Floss is is one of them and that's really famous because it has some beautiful half Timoteo houses and beautiful little couple straits. There's a little sort of canal system that runs through it and you can take a little boat and go through the Loxton and get a bit of a tool there and of course it's particularly magical like the rest of us is at Christmas Time. Where of course you have all of the Christmas markets and there's also the Palais COA which is a beautiful building and real sort of palace kind of setup and has a lot of museums in. That's so stressful is a definite must see. I would definitely recommend heading there for at least a day so if you would just going to stay in the town of stressful then. I think it is absolutely worthwhile and it's something that we do when we are there is too. You can of course find a free walking tour and these are very very popular in France. We have a guide that we use and she's absolutely fantastic with any tool off. The town is going to be so helpful because there is just so much hidden in plain view that you just would not do unless you had somebody explaining to you and professional guides just this incredible source of information in this area
Monocle 24: The Menu
The Best of Poble Sec, Barcelona's Liveliest Neighborhood
"Week. We hit to Basel Owners neighborhood off publicity to explore the flourishing food and drink see and to taste some of the city's best top US. Our Guide is Monaco's Julia Webster if you ask locals in Barcelona where to go for a bite to eat you're likely to be pointed in lots of different directions in the past few years. However the neighborhood of Bob Leszek located at the foot of the hill of Monte Week has been making its name in the local. Foodie seen this working class neighborhood used to be inhabited by factory work as fishermen and became a cultural hotspot at the beginning of the twentieth century when theaters and concert venues setup along avenue parallel more recently neighboring museums like the Monroe Foundation and the National Museum of Catalonia have attracted art lovers and tourists but today the neighborhood is worth a visit for its food offerings alone with both new and established restaurants serving a variety of different cuisines for breakfast or Brunch head to hotel twenty That opened in two thousand fifteen in of restored nineteenth century building. Take a seat. It's one of the mobile tables in the courtyard terrace surrounded by tropical plants. The menu has everything from expand addict to aside bows and strawberry topped pancakes but for most banish approach to breakfast local. Hamson cheeses on Bunko bread rubbed with tomato and sprinkled with olive oil. All the way to go on the edge of the hill is elevated. Montjeu week a small restaurants that opened just a couple of years ago as its name suggests but the main small Catalan space is limited but the bright interior is beautifully designed. Pull up a stool at the bar where you can get a good width of the Mediterranean tap on offer such as potato thirty meatballs and smoked Sardines hosted by Matha film publicist and Super Jaren. Cook at but it won't. Jake has become a popular spot for the creative crowd often with customers spilling out onto the street its proximity to some of Catalonia's most renowned performing arts status make it a great starting point for cultural evening where you can have a quick drink before heading to a show. You may even bump into some of the actors who come to unwind after hustles but the best time to visit. Is that the weekend when the chefs subs generous. Helpings of his special veal fiscus for lunch. If you don't expect Italian food to be. Oh best male in Barcelona. There's a restaurant justice short walk away that might persuade you. Otherwise twin brothers stay final and Max Columbia moved to bus of from Venice almost twenty years ago and fell in love with the city. That restaurant Chamois which means twins in Venetian has been hailed as the city's best Italian so saying the fineness local ingredients. They've created a winning version of their home regions classic recipes such as mashed with polenta and sweet and Sour Sardines. The Interior is cozy elegantly. Behemoth on and you can expect relaxed but attentive service. Finally a tour of publicity is incomplete without a visit to one of the city's oldest and best known Tapa. Spas he met. The humid- is a Standing Room. Only bar in an old fashioned Bodega. That fits around fifteen people at a time. Not much has changed since the current owners. Great-grandfather opened the establishment in nineteen fourteen to sell his homemade wine which he served with a plate of preserved food such as anchovies or olives. Today's key metric you met has gained a reputation as one of the city's most iconic eateries an attracts long queues of hungry customers. The menu includes the selection of more than eighty dishes such as an open sandwich of smoked. Salmon Greek yogurts truffle. Honey will the traditional skelly Bala burst peppers Jeans and onions. Wash it down with a glass of wine from the well-stocked seller unfit for monocle. I'm Judy Webster. You say
Big Book Podcast
The European Drinker
"Welcome back my friends to the big book podcast. My name is Howard and I'm an alcoholic sober since nineteen eighty eight one day at a time in this episode the third story in the personal story section of the first edition of alcoholics anonymous published in nineteen thirty nine. It's entitled the European Drinker. The story was also published in the second and third editions of the Big Book but does not appear in the fourth edition and now the European Drinker Preface. Beer and wine were not the answer. I was born in Europe in house to be exact shortly after it had become German and practically grew up with good Rhine wine of song and story. My parents had some vague ideas of making a priest out of me and for some years I attended the Francis in school at Basel Switzerland just across the border about six miles from my home but although I was a good Catholic. The monastic life had little appeal for me very early. I became apprentice to harness. Making an acquired considerable knowledge of upholstering. My daily consumption of wine was about a quart but that was common where I lived. Everybody drank wine and it is true that there was no great amount of drunkenness. But I can remember in my teens that there were a few characters who caused the village heads to nod pityingly and sometimes an anger as they pause to say that sought on Ray or said Pavel. Israel's who drank too much they were undoubtedly. The alcoholics of our village military service was compulsory. And I did my stretch with the class of my age goose-stepping German barracks and taking part in the boxer rebellion in China. My first time at any great distance from home informed parts many a soldier who has been abstemious at home learns to use new and potent drinks so I indulge with my comrades and everything the Faris had to offer I cannot say however that I acquired any craving for hard liquor as a result when I got back to Germany. I settled down to finish my apprenticeship. Drinking the wine of the country as usual many friends of my family had emigrated to America so at Twenty Four. I decided that the United States offered me the opportunity. I was never likely to find in my native land. I came directly to a growing industrial city in the Middle West where I have lived practically ever since I was warmly welcomed by friends of my youth who had preceded me for weeks. After my arrival I was faded and entertained in the already large colony Alsatians in the city among the Germans in their saloons and clubs. I early decided that the wine of America was very inferior stuff and took up beer instead. I soon found work at my trade in harness making. It was still an age of horses but I discovered that harness and saddle making in America was different than anything I had known. Every man in the shop was a specialist and instead of having a variety of jobs to do every day I was compelled to sit all day long at a bench. Doing the same thing and Leslie. I found it very monotonous and wanting a change I found it when I got work as an upholsterer. In a large furniture store fond of singing I joined German singing society which had good club headquarters. There I sat in the evenings enjoying with my friends. Our memories of the old country singing the old songs. We all knew playing simple card games for drinks and consuming great quantities of beer. At that time I could go into any saloon. Have One or two beers walk out and forget about it. I had no desire whatever to sit down at a table and stale whole morning or afternoon drinking certainly at that time. I was one of those who can take it or leave it alone. There had never been any drunkards in my family. I came of good stock of men and women who drank wine all lives as a beverage and while the occasionally got drunk at special celebrations. They were up in about their business the next day prohibition came having regard for the law of the land. I resigned myself to the will of the national legislators and quit drinking altogether not because I had founded harmful. But because I couldn't get what I was accustomed to drink. You can all remember that in the first few months after the change. A great many men who had formerly been used to a few beers every day or an occasional drink of. Whiskey simply quit all alcoholic drinks for the great majority of US however that condition. Didn't last we saw very early. That prohibition wasn't going to work it wasn't very long before home. Brewing was an institution and men began to search fervor shortly for all the recipe books on wine-making but I hardly tasted anything for two years and started in business for myself founding a mattress factory. Which is today an important industrial enterprise in our city. I was doing very well with that. And General upholstering work and there was every indication that I would be financially independent by the time I reached Middle Age. By this time I was married and was paying for a home like most immigrants. I wanted to be somebody and have something and I was very happy and contented as felt success crown my efforts. I miss the old social times of course but had no definite craving even for beer. Successful home brewers among my friends began to invite me to their homes. I decided that if these could make it I would try it myself and so I did. It wasn't very long until I had developed a pretty good brew with uniformity and plenty of authority. I knew the stuff I was making was a lot stronger than I had been used to. But never suspected that steady drinking of it might develop a taste for something even stronger. It wasn't long before the bootlegger wasn't established institution this as in other towns. I was doing well and business and in going around town. I was frequently invited to have a drink in speakeasy. I condone my domestic brewing and the bootleggers and their business. More and more. I form the habit of doing some of my business in the speakeasy and after a time did not need that as an excuse. The speaks usually sold Whiskey. Beer was too bulky and it couldn't be kept in a jug under the counter ready to be dumped when John Law would come around. I was now forming an entirely new drinking technique before long I had a definite taste for hard liquor new nausea and headaches. I had never known before but as in the old days I suffered them out gradually however I suffered so much that I simply had to have the morning after drink. I became what is called a periodical drinker. I was eased out of the business. I had founded and was reduced to doing general upholstery in a small shop. At the back of my house my wife upgraded me often and plenty when she saw that my periodical were gradually losing me. What business I could get. I began to bring bottles in. I had them hidden away in the House and all over my shop and careful concealment. I had all the usual experiences of the alcoholic for I was certainly one by this time sometimes after sobering up after about of several weeks. I would righteously resolved to quit with a great deal of I would throw out full pines. Pour them out and smash the bottles firmly resolved never to take another drink of the stuff. I was going to straighten up in four or five days. I would be hunting all over the place at home and in my workshop for the bottles I had destroyed cursing myself for being damned fool. My periodicals became more frequent until I reached the point where I wanted to devote all my time to drinking working as little as possible and then only when the necessity of my family demanded as soon as I had satisfied. That what I earned as an upholsterer went for liquor I would promise to have jobs done and never do them. My customers lost confidence in me to the point where I retained what business I had only because I was a well trained reputedly fine craftsman best in the business when he's sober. My customers would say and I still had a following who had given me work though. They deplored my habits because they knew the job would be well done when they eventually got it. I had always been a good Catholic possibly not so devoted as I should have been but fairly regular in my attendance at services I had never doubted the existence of the supreme being but now I began to absent myself from the church where I had formerly been a member of the choir. Unfortunately I had no desire to consult my priest about my drinking. In fact I was scared to talk to him about it for. I feared the kind of talk. He would give me unlike many other. Catholics who frequently take pledges for definite periods a year two years or for good. I never had any desire to take a pledge before the priest