During an In My Humble Opinion (IMHO)  segment of Public Broadcasting Service news (OPB),   Amanda Petrusich,  music critic for the New Yorker, spoke about the “outdated” notion that a work of art stands apart from the person who created it.  The theory is long-standing and k

Picasso enjoys a lock on the minds of art lovers like no other. A majority of artists, like me, spend the bulk of our lives canoeing against the tide of indifference.  Our work is seldom seen and seldom admired beyond friends and family.  Little wonder that we seldom consider the do

Cries of alarm, protest and horror rattled New York elites recently when Aby Rosen, the man who owns the Seagram’s building, wanted to remove a wall hanging, originally a ballet theater backdrop, purportedly painted by Pablo Picasso.  The performance ended, the hanging landed as a