Yesterday I drove to Ithaca, New York, where I met up with Mary Smith, Professor of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine maintains a poisonous plants garden, which makes sense, if you think about it. Veterinary … Read More
In 1914, Velazquez's painting of Venus (1657) was slashed in six places at the National Gallery by an angry Canadian suffragette. The painting was repaired.