Fallen Idols Exhibition_The Van de Veldes and the Japanese tea ceremony

and the Japanese tea ceremony elevated it to an art form

We spent the sunset here

from reproductions and people’s recollections of the now-lost original drawings of the Cutty Sark

I started to aim my camera at the comet

Painted by an unknown artist working in the Dutch style of the 17th century

Fallen Idols Exhibition_The Van de Veldes and the Japanese tea ceremonyIn the past few years, there has been a rush to topple statues. Across the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Belgium and elsewhere, Black Lives Matter protesters defaced and, in some cases, took down statues of slaveholders, Confederate icons, and imperialists. Author: Alex von Tunzelmann In Bristol, Edward Colston was knocked off his plinth and hurled into the harbour. Robert E. Lee was covered in graffiti in Richmond, Virginia.