How can gallery-goers who linger before a single picture at a private view help art?

How can gallery-goers who linger before a single picture at a private view help art? A visitor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York noticed that the exhibition “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle” was missing several paintings from the master's celebrated series “Struggle: From the History of the American People” (1954-1956). But she did not merely notice: she recalled that one of the absent works might belong to her neighbours, and the painting did indeed turn up in their house. They had bought it at a charity auction 60 years ago.

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

How can gallery-goers who linger before a single picture at a private view help art?

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s