Ghulf Genes

According to the Wall Street Journal this morning, the Art Institute of Chicago has received art valued at $500 million. The donors are St...

In the Wall Street Journal this morning comes an article titled “New Masters of the Art Universe.” Hedge fund managers are evidently spendi...

My contention is that measurement, the very core of the scientific approach, becomes problematical when applied too rigidly to those areas o...

One section of the New York Times we rarely even open. It’s the Arts&Leisure section, with Arts in bold and & Leisure in faded-grey...

While celebrating the achievements of the Paret branch of the family, I thought I’d bring here the Welcome sign marking our reserved par...

True art in written form is never just A tale of life recounted blow by blow, The tensions caused by violence or lust; It is instead a di...

Great works of art are distillates of memory In which the essences of past experience, Boiled down, fermented, pressed, enriched, and cris...

Well, just so—because I find them so beautiful. And the pictures came out so well, even if they’re kind of pop [ kitschig ], worn, and not v...