Did the first cave painters, thirty thousand years ago, get some special reward from the chief? Extra pebbles, maybe, or pottage? The history of art is a history of commerce: a winding helix of ...
Jean Strouse’s brisk, wise “Family Romance” takes on the painter’s relationship to the Wertheimers, a vast Jewish clan he immortalized on canvas. By Walker Mimms Walker Mimms’s writing on art and ...