Art’s Endless Summer, Shari Bids Adieu, White House Machinations

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon download of Puck’s best new reporting.

First up today, John Heilemann gets on the horn with Jon Kelly to reveal all the Democratic chatter surrounding Biden’s make-or-break week: the escalating donor revolt, the brewing rebellion in the House and Senate, the mounting anger at Bidenworld, and how this all might end…

Plus, below the fold: Marion Maneker reveals the art world’s favorite sun-drenched hideouts ahead of a frenetic fall sales calendar. And on The Powers That Be, Jon and Peter Hamby reunite to flesh out the latest beats in the roiling Biden saga—the ABC interview, the Senate drama, etcetera—before turning to David Ellison’s masterplan for Paramount.

JOHN HEILEMANN

He may have already lost the backing of Democrats on Capitol Hill and in the donor class. But in the face of Joe Biden’s go-for-broke, damn-the-torpedoes embrace of sheer defiance—along with denial, delusion, and desperation—as a strategy for survival, will being abandoned by his own party be enough to make him quit the race?

MARION MANEKER

In an incestuous business where your friends are your clients and your clients think you’re their friend, the art world has figured out how to blend the intra-season travel schedule with the reality that the hustle never ends.

PETER HAMBY & JON KELLY

Jon Kelly joins Peter to weigh into the latest beats in the roiling Biden scandal—the ABC interview, the Senate revolt, and the inner circle turmoil. Then the two discuss David Ellison’s renewed attempt to acquire Paramount.

JULIA IOFFE

Overseas political observers are asking how the world’s greatest democracy ended up with the choice of Biden versus Trump: “We see the same videos—and debates.”