Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on Art.

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

My job as art critic is to watch artists dance naked in public, and then I will, in turn, dance naked critically in public.

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.