Sini Majuri forms a pair of melting sculptural eyeglasses Sini Majuri presents It’s Getting Hot in Here, a sculptural eyewear piece exhibited at Etnia House of Arts during the Venice Art Biennale 2026. Constructed from hand-worked glass, ethically produced gold leaf, and original eyeglass components, the work examines contemporary perception through the material language of […]
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Trump, 79, Forgets He Accused Army of Robbing Fort Knox
“And so over the course of seven months we just kind of found these moments where I might be able to do some work, take the kids with me, do a road trip—and our motto is, ‘To love America is to see America.’” Duffy continued, “There’s so much to see in this beautiful country.” (He […]
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Ron Paul Saw The U.S. Mint’s Gold Problems Coming
Long before he became a hero of the Republican Party’s libertarian wing, Ron Paul was a little-known Texas congressman with a fringe idea: He wanted to re-tether the dollar to gold. In 1981, Mr. Paul saw a chance to take what he called a “first step.” He joined a new federal gold commission and proposed […]
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Trump’s Mint Is Helping Cartels Launder Their Gold
“Excuse me, excuse me. I’m not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person. Uh, I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let’s say, Epstein or other things,” […]
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U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as ‘American’
Every year, the United States Mint sells more than $1 billion of investment-grade gold coins. Each is stamped with an icon like the bald eagle, signifying the government’s guarantee, required by law, that the gold is 100 percent American. “To hold a coin or medal produced by the Mint is to connect to the founding […]
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Trump Finds a New Way to Force Us to Stare at His Face
It should be unsurprising to hear that the Commission of Fine Arts, one of the few federal arts commissions Elon Musk didn’t take the time to gut, is entirely filled with Trump appointees. These include Roger Kimball, whose “commentary” on Trump has for years been impressively servile, as well as one of Trump’s former assistants, […]
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