“Recently, a painting in the British Royal Collection was cleaned, revealing the younger van Ostade’s own lowbrow humor in the figure of a man urinating in front of a dog. Now the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena is sharing a similar discovery: Its newly restored 1641 Isack van Ostade painting of peasants butchering a pig shows a man defecating in the corner.”
Tag: 12.23.15
Sultan Of Brunei Bans Christmas
“The all-powerful Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, one of the world’s richest men, announced last year he would push ahead with the introduction of sharia law … Religious leaders in the oil-rich [Southeast Asian] sultanate warned this month that a ban on Christmas would be strictly enforced, for fear that Muslims could be led astray.”