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Welcome back to The<\/strong> Weekend Press<\/strong>! Today, Suzy Weiss<\/strong> on Ariana Grande\u2019s disturbing turn. Liel Leibovitz<\/strong> on the trouble with \u201cTed Lasso.\u201d Two Drinks with Al Roth<\/strong>, the Nobel laureate who thinks buying an organ is fine. The young man who quit finance to become a vagabond. And more!<\/em><\/p>\n

But first: Caitlin Flanagan<\/strong> wants to tear down a Los Angeles museum.<\/em><\/p>\n

Not all art is created equal. Human beings have understood this ever since a guy drew a woolly mammoth on the wall of a cave\u2014and have argued, sometimes ferociously, about what deserves to be lauded, and what can be consigned to the dustbin of history.<\/p>\n

When we do this, we\u2019re really asking some of life\u2019s big questions: What\u2019s meaningful? What makes us feel something? What will still be true a century from now?<\/p>\n

But then along came a theory that caused art history to eat itself from the inside out. It decreed that valuing some things more than others was problematic, actually. There should be no hierarchy. And the Western canon isn\u2019t based on an objective sense of truth and beauty but on racism, colonialism, bigotry.<\/p>\n

Critical theory, as it\u2019s known, has become an orthodoxy of the art elite\u2014and it has seeped into the institutions they run.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to the newly renovated Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), which was once the largest encyclopedic museum west of the Mississippi\u2014but now, according to our columnist Caitlin Flanagan<\/strong>, looks more like a sinister garage sale.<\/p>\n

Michael Govan, the CEO of the museum, scoffs at that idea. To quote him: \u201cWe\u2019re going to create knowledge by putting things in categories and distinguishing.\u201d And so, writes Caitlin, in the new LACMA artworks from wildly different eras and areas are jumbled up together, for no discernible reason: \u201cSumerian relief structures next to black-and-white photographs and, depending on the day, a performance artist on a bicycle pedaling around.\u201d<\/p>\n

The message is this: \u201cThey\u2019re all the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWould it be churlish,\u201d asks Caitlin, \u201cto point out that if people hadn\u2019t been creating knowledge by \u2018putting things in categories and distinguishing,\u2019 Govan wouldn\u2019t be able to preside over a museum that hangs in midair?\u201d<\/p>\n

The truth is, if more of our museums fall to this destructive philosophy, future generations will never benefit from the knowledge that allowed Govan to take a sledgehammer to categories<\/em>: the knowledge of how artists are linked, how one era followed another, how new styles were born. A knowledge of art history, in other words.<\/p>\n

And Caitlin, for one, doesn\u2019t want that to happen.<\/p>\n

\u201dI visited the new LACMA three times over two weeks, and it radicalized me,\u201d she writes in today\u2019s essay. \u201cHere was the first museum I\u2019ve ever wanted to tear down.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Caitlin Flanagan \u2022 Culture and Ideas<\/p>\n

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Caitlin Flanagan: How to Wreck a Museum<\/p>\n

](https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/lacma-art-history-musuem-caitlin-flanagan-los-angeles-hierarchical<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Liel Leibovitz \u2022 Culture and Ideas<\/p>\n

[<\/p>\n

The Joyless Return of \u2018Ted Lasso\u2019<\/p>\n

](https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/the-joyless-return-of-ted-lasso<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\u201cWatching the first episode of the new season of Ted Lasso is a little like running into your ex at the mall,\u201d writes Liel Leibovitz. \u201cFirst comes a burst of involuntary excitement\u2014remember all those wonderful biscuits your ex used to bake?\u201d Then, upon closer look, you realize: \u201cNow I remember why we broke up.\u201d As Liel sees it, that\u2019s because the new season, released on Wednesday, replaces real complexity and depth with empty progressive values\u2014a move that pleases pundits and academics, and precisely no one else.<\/p>\n

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Peter Coy \u2022 Two Drinks<\/p>\n

[<\/p>\n

The Nobel Laureate Who\u2019d Buy Your Kidney<\/p>\n

](https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/two-drinks-with-the-nobel-laureate<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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What is bad about prostitution? Why is it wrong to eat horses? If someone asks you if you know a hit man, do you call 911? For most people, these are the kind of sticky ethical dilemmas you hope to avoid\u2014but Nobel Prize\u2013winning economist Al Roth delights in provocative moral questions; they are the subject of his latest book. And in this week\u2019s Two Drinks, Roth persuaded Peter Coy that buying a kidney might not be such a terrible idea, even if \u201csome people think that not only is that a bad idea, but it\u2019s the kind of bad idea that only bad people have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read story<\/a><\/p>\n

Jack Raines \u2022 Things Worth Remembering<\/p>\n

[<\/p>\n

The Book That Saved Me from Wasting My Life<\/p>\n

](https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/vagabonding-young-money-jack-raines-travel-young<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou\u2019re not just wasting your time. You\u2019re wasting your life.\u201d That\u2019s the voice that rang in investor Jack Raines\u2019s head as a young man. At age 24, he was well on his way down the \u201ccorrect\u201d professional path\u2014he\u2019d secured a job as a financial analyst for America\u2019s largest logistics company, and an offer to matriculate at Columbia Business School the next fall. But then he stumbled upon Rolf Potts\u2019s \u201cVagabonding.\u201d \u201cThere are a few books in my life that have made me feel something,\u201d he writes in today\u2019s Things Worth Remembering. \u201cThere is only one that has ever made me do something.\u201d Specifically, he booked a one-way ticket to Barcelona, and left everything he knew behind.<\/p>\n

Read story<\/a><\/p>\n

Second Thought<\/strong><\/h4>\n

This week, a concerningly skeletal<\/a> Ariana Grande released a music video in which she takes a chainsaw to some entertainment executives and ends up covered in their blood. Then, a couple of days later, she announced she was taking a step back from public life after the completion of her Eternal Sunshine<\/em> tour. In the latest episode of Second Thought<\/em>, Suzy Weiss<\/strong> and Dan Ahdoot<\/strong> unpack what\u2019s going on here, before diving into some other goings-on, like MAHA\u2019s new favorite plastic-free water brand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey say there\u2019s a whole credit card in your brain full of microplastics,\u201d Suzy says. \u201cI hope mine\u2019s platinum.\u201d<\/p>\n

Click below to watch the video, or listen wherever you get your podcasts. And for more of Suzy\u2019s thoughts on the gory Grande story, don\u2019t miss her newsletter<\/a>!<\/p>\n

\u200b\u200bKnock Knock, It\u2019s Cupid!<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A new batch of ads from single _Free Press_ers is live on the site. Click here<\/a> to meet a California conservative, a recovering workaholic looking for love nearing retirement, or a man who built his own house and is now ready to build a relationship. Your special someone could be just one email away! If you\u2019d like to take a chance at Free Press<\/em> love, write a paragraph that defines you, including your age, where you live, and what you\u2019re looking for, and send it over to Cupid@TheFP.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This week, Larissa Phillips<\/strong> asked: Should I buy a gun? Read her essay on the dilemma, then read the comments, in which Free Press readers gave their advice. Also this week, Joe Nocera<\/strong> wrote about the man who just lost $35 billion, and River Page<\/strong> tried making the recipe featured in RFK Jr.\u2019s new cooking show. . .<\/em><\/p>\n

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Should I Get a Gun?<\/p>\n

](https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/should-i-get-a-gun<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Larissa Phillips<\/p>\n

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[<\/p>\n

How to Lose $35 Billion<\/p>\n

](https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/how-to-lose-35-billion<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Joe Nocera<\/p>\n

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[<\/p>\n

I Made RFK Jr.\u2019s Salmon Cakes. They Were Bad.<\/p>\n

](https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/rfk-jr-cooking-show<\/a>)<\/p>\n

River Page<\/p>\n

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How should you spend the rest of your weekend? We asked our assistant editor Josh Code<\/strong> for his recommendations\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udcdaRead\u2026<\/strong> Interpreter of Maladies<\/a><\/em>, by Jhumpa Lahiri. I picked up this book because I loved its title, and because it won the Pulitzer for fiction in 2000\u2014back when that sort of thing mattered. Ever the cynic when it comes to identity-centric literature, I was surprised to find myself incredibly moved by this short story collection themed around the Indian diaspora (yes, there were tears). The characters are desperate and unvarnished. The narrative twists and turns feel earned. The author\u2019s prose is that rare sort where you find yourself wanting to reread each story to study it, to figure out how the hell she pulled that off. My favorite stories from the mix were \u201cA Temporary Matter,\u201d \u201cSexy,\u201d and \u201cThe Third and Final Continent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udcfa<\/strong> Watch<\/strong><\/em>\u2026<\/strong> Madonna: Truth or Dare<\/em>. Awed by the catchiness of Confessions II<\/em>, Madonna\u2019s 10th chart-topping album in her five-decade career, I recently dedicated myself to the study of Madge history (herstory?). This particular documentary, filmed during her 1990 Blonde Ambition<\/em> world tour, captures the star\u2019s life on the road. There are celebrity cameos, scandals, and diva moments, but the best part is seeing the family she forms with her backup dancers and singers, whom she leads in prayer before every show. Fans of the singer will no doubt enjoy the film. For the unacquainted, consider it a portrait of a woman living the American dream, warts and all. It\u2019s definitely not the film Madonna would have made about herself. It\u2019s a time capsule of what celebrity meant\u2014and what it cost\u2014in a pre-influencer world.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udf2e<\/strong>Eat<\/strong><\/em>\u2026<\/strong> Code\u2019s EZ Tacos. If you missed this week\u2019s inane drama on right-wing Twitter, what you need to know is: The burrito prices are too damn high. If you\u2019re looking to save a buck, or the employees at your local Chipotle are starting to recognize you, try making this taco recipe at home. Cook one cubed potato in oil until it\u2019s golden brown, then add half an onion and a few cloves of garlic, season with salt and pepper, and drop in a pound of ground beef. Mash up the beef, brown it, then add your favorite taco seasoning and a half cup of water. Mix it all together and cook for a couple more minutes, then serve with whatever toppings you like. Live m\u00e1s<\/em>, for less!<\/p>\n

Last but not least: Behold this stunning photo of Madonna, captured on her Blonde Ambition tour.<\/em><\/p>\n

That\u2019s all, folks! Have a great weekend.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Free Press earns a commission from any purchases made through all book links in this article.<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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