The Fear Economy

When did reading about a woman driving sick children to a hospital become a hanging offense?

In 1981, Picasso’s Guernica came to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. This was an enormous event at the time, people bought tickets well in advance, and my best friend, then a painter (now an Emmy-award winning production designer) took a summer job as a security guard at the museum in order to be near the 11.5-feet x 25.5-feet protest painting…