Now that Republicans are running the country again…

... are we allowed to stop pretending to like IPAs? Don't let me be misunderstood. I've had a fair number of India pale ales, and I've even enjoyed some of them. Ballast Point's Sculpin remains a summer go-to for me, and once in a blue moon Dogfish Head or even Harpoon can provide some nice …

Jeff Koons is the worst man in art and maybe the world

While I was visiting Boston last week, I had the pleasure of seeing Jeff Koons discuss his career in a lecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. You might know Koons from any number of high-profile sculpture pieces, particularly his inescapable metallic balloon animals from the series Celebration. (An architect friend who went to the …