To: Retort
From: JT/IB
Via: LW
Out at the Bella Centre (think Fresh Kills Landfill, Staten Island) in the hours before the boss flies in with the bailiffs & bagmen to read out the terms of the new round of structural adjustments, an agent from the International Emissions Trading Association makes notes for the circle of commitment, perhaps on the cost of "adaptation" in the Maldives. On the other side of the city, in Nørrebro, Eshelman and Boal burn the midnight oil honing final dispatches. Iain is staying near the lake in an old five-storey building that used to be home to the Free University. Yesterday Mikkel Bolt, author of the lately published Suicide of the Avant-garde, led a small party around the National Art Gallery. To his surprise a large landscape by Queen Mathilde - cyclist, textile designer, archaeologist, illustrator, political scientist, mother of the nation - that used to hang opposite a major post-CoBrA canvas of Asger Jorn's, has been removed. Along with habeas corpus.
