Nitwit judges spout pretty thoughts, but they should keep out of the curating business.(natalie_board, Porechenskaya/Getty Images)

Judges shouldn’t pretend to be curators, Churchill is both big money and purged from money, and Etruscan art looms large in Rome.

Given America’s 250th, I postponed my art-news piece for June as well as the announcement of my first Supreme Flower of Nitwittery awards, given to those people -- the prize has multiple winners, so many are the choices -- especially endowed by their Creator with heads so filled with cotton, hay, rags, roots, mulch, and frilly, silly flowers that they could float at the Rose Bowl Parade. “No Kings,” I agree, but the real kings and queens -- and they’re mutton-headed dopes -- are judges. Some of these lifetime judges suddenly think they’re curators and impresarios.

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