CHRIS ROPER: Musk plays his Trump card
As he settles in as owner of global media company Twitter, Elon Musk is exhibiting the kind of megalomania made famous by ‘The Donald’. In his quest for ego, he may end up destroying the popular platform
03 November 2022 - 05:00
Amid all the news about increased Russian violence in Ukraine, a footbridge collapsing in India and killing 134 people, more than 150 people dying in a Halloween stampede in South Korea and other grim events, one story stood out for me. A painting by Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down in a gallery for 75 years.
The 1941 painting by the Dutch abstract artist, who is perhaps more famous in South Africa as the inspiration for those 1980s Volkswagen Citi Golf ads, is described by The Guardian as “a complex interlacing lattice of red, yellow, black and blue adhesive tapes titled New York City I”...
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