PARIS — A game of brinkmanship began when the Musée d’Orsay here invited Julian Schnabel to choose paintings from its 19th-century collection to exhibit alongside his own works of art. “At a certain ...

Take a bright kid with a stupid name (Inigo Philbrick) and parents with a background in the arts and introduce him to the richest, most gullible art collectors in the world and you have all the main ...

Great art penetrates, for better or worse. It gets “inside” and lingers there; it excites emotions, makes you feel elated, vulnerable, mortal. If great art penetrates, does aesthetic experience entail ...

I am not an expert on art but I am an expert on gullibility, and art appreciation (and certainly art economics) can in part be understood as an example of mass gullibility at work. Take the case of an ...

André Gide called him “the first of our great French painters and the most French of our great painters,” but France herself has been strangely ambivalent about the 17th century master, Nicolas ...