The AIR MAIL Diary

A whole-earth catalogue.

Bears are attacking the Japanese! Snakes are attacking the Chinese! And other strange stories from around the globe …

By George Kalogerakis

As the Trump catastrophe—noxious! inhumane! global!—continues to soil and degrade everything it can, from the National Mall to the Middle East to Madison Square Garden, we remain steadfast, scanning the planet for strange, surprising, generally less appalling stories. Happily, they still exist. For instance:

Conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian —you might remember: a banana duct-taped to a wall—has been stolen from the Pompidou-Metz museum in eastern France. Just last year, a visitor to the museum ate the banana, though “guards quickly intervened and stuck up a replacement,” said Le Monde. (The piece, which was first exhibited—and, as it happens, eaten—at READ ON