In the late 1980s I was a graduate student at Oxford University in England. That was also the time I became more serious about collecting art. At that time my focus of collecting was on drawings.

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 ...

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The Mona Lisa is without doubt the most famous painting in the world, yet perhaps we are over familiar with her. Here I explain why I think it is not only a great painting but also a revolution in art ...

A strong case can be made that Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, which was published in November 1924, marked the end of an era when a work of literature could claim to encapsulate the entirety of the ...

Winter is the perfect season to slow down, seek inspiration and lose yourself in books that expand your creative world. This year’s standout art and culture releases span great works of art, feminist ...