CultureGrrl's Summer Doldrums

I delayed this announcement for a day. After all, I just had to report on the Getty/Italy hug and to instruct Philippe on how to run the Met during the next 10 years of his tenure!

But now I have distressing news for those of you who depend on CultureGrrl for your daily dose of dyspepsia: I'm going AWOL (more or less) from my blog for the month of August, to engage in the following necessary summer activities (in reverse order of importance):

---Plowing a steam shovel through the piles of books and papers in my office (above).

---Working on my supposed book proposal.

---Perfecting my so-called tennis game with my brand new, superpowered racquet (below).

But you and I both know that I won't be able to resist occasionally popping in on you, to weigh in on the next precipitous museum resignation or the latest deplorable deaccession. (I shall also work on expanding my vocabulary, endeavoring to learn some useful adjectives besides "precipitous," "deplorable," "dicey," and that old standby, "problematic.")

I'll probably also post occasional news links, with pithy comments, to keep you up to speed in my absence. And because I have a face for radio, I believe I'll be doing a couple of public-radio gigs this summer. I'll link to those on CultureGrrl, so you can hear me, if not read me. (The first of these may be this Saturday.)

But please take heart, art-lings: I'll come out swinging again after Labor Day!

Did I just say "swinging"? Come on, let's volley!