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Claudia Schmuckli discusses her Swiss roots, her international upbringing and the influence of San Francisco and Silicon Valley on her work.

When “Woman-Ochre” goes on view at the Getty Museum after its conservation, the painting will have a new mystique. But competing interpretations remain.

I was taken back to the roots of my love for the visual arts on a visit to galleries around Cork Street just before Christmas.

Cézanne Reconsidered Fig. 1. Nature morte de pêches et poires (Still life with Peaches and Pears) by Paul Cezanne (1839–1906), c. 1885–1887. Oil on canvas, 14 ⅝ by 17 ¾ inches. Private collection; photograph courtesy of Bridgeman Images and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. “Others abide our question,” Matthew Arnold said of Shakespeare, “thou art free!” 1 Arnold meant that the Bard, in his sublime universality, soared above those petty reckonings that critics apply to all oth...