Culture notes.

Overheard at the LACMA exhibit on French masters from the Pushkin museum:

Man: "Have you noticed how many of these paintings are French? It's like they're all Francophiles here or something."

Woman: "That's because it's...a collection of French masters. From Russia."

Man, insistently: "No...it's the whole collection. They're all Francophiles here."

Off to the races. It's like they're all hippophiles there.