Context Connoisseur Gifts

"We've all said things about heliocentricity that look bad when taken out of context."

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

'Things have really livened up down there since You introduced SEXUAL reproduction.'

"Please hold applause until end of dragon."

Men gossiping

"The Leonardos, the Raphaels, Titians, Veroneses, Giottos... Italy wants them back, all 427 of them."

Sundar Pichai's first doodle.

"He's an abstract artist."

"I guess when your husband dies you'll really understand what they mean by a statistical death."

"By 'genius' do they mean the artist or the marketing department?"

"No, no, that’s in a bar, Mr. President — you can talk politics and religion here."

The Kali De Milo.

Counselor. It's annoying that he always has to have the second-to-last word

'Kafka! Kandinsky! Kokoschka!'

"Can you take a video of me attacking the garbage so I can post it on Instagram?"

"It's called 'Sold'."

Count Valmont- Proposed Titlepage to 'Les Liasons Dangereuses'

"Nope! He'd never set eyes on a water cooler in all his years in the office!"

Multi-Species Employment Agency. Did you hire the octopus for that job opening? Yeah, but I did interview other applicants. The frog was a strong candidate ... I'm flexible on location -- I'm an amphibian! The whale seemed to be hiding something. The gap in my resume? Uh ... I was beached for a while. And the pig wasn't smart. I see "USDA Approved" on your resume --- I don't think you understand what that means. The octopus got the job because he was a great multitasker!

Chinese History: Redwash

"I like them. They hate the same things we do."

'I wish you wouldn't bring your work home with you!'

'If content is king, why doesn't anybody want to pay for it.'

Antonin Leopold Dvorak

"You have an air of Camille Paglia about you."

S**t Threw a Goose

"Now we're leaving the hall of stuff we stole from other cultures and entering the hall of stuff we paid too much for."

'I may not know much about art. But, I don't know what I like either.'

"We should probably talk about the elephant in the Roomba."

"I said, you know why women talk more than men?" "What?" "I said, you know why women talk more than men..." "What?"

"Who's the artist?"

White Wine Wisdom (2)

Can I ask you a question, man-to-man? Sure, little buddy. What do "man-to-man talks" usually consist of? What? I've never really had one, I don't think. What usually goes into them? Sports? Shaving? Carburetors? A little of this, a little of that. There's a proper ratio, of course. I'm not good at math.

Burger stall at an art gallery

Australia's role in the Asian century.