Condé Nast Murmurs, Schwarzman’s Immortality, D.N.C. Cafeteria Chatter

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

First up today, John Heilemann digs into Donald Trump’s increasingly unforgiving split screen with Kamala Harris. With the press corps finally starting to focus on Trump’s own cognitive decline, can the Harris campaign turn the tables and do to Trump what his campaign did to Biden?

Plus, below the fold: Marion Maneker ganders at the budding art collection in Steve Schwarzman’s Newport manor, before offering a provocative counter-narrative to the incessant doom-and-gloom surrounding the art market. And on The Powers That Be, Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby reunite to discuss the media industry’s hot-button issues: D.N.C. speaker slot politics, the dark side of NBCU’s Olympics narrative, and Condé Nast’s newest C-suite member.

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JOHN HEILEMANN

With the octogenarian incumbent out of the picture, Trump finds himself facing a less forgiving split screen opposite Kamala Harris—and a press corps finally starting to focus on his own cognitive decline. Can Team K turn the tables and do to Trump what Trump and his campaign did to Biden?

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MARION MANEKER

The hedge fund billionaire’s Newport restoration, a stunning cliffside estate to rival the Vanderbilts’ old Breakers, will be turned into a museum after his and his wife’s deaths. Art market sources say it’s less about the collection than creating a monument to his own Gilded Age legacy.

MARION MANEKER

While the top of the art market has contracted, contributing to a dour mood inside the big auction houses, segmented data shows the bottom is motoring along—defying the hair-on-fire narrative of an art world recession.

PETER HAMBY & JON KELLY

Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby are reunited to discuss the media industry’s hot button issues: DNC speaker slot politics, the dark side of NBCU’s Olympics narrative, and Conde Nast’s new C-suite member.