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Cartoon by Karen Sneider About Titian, what can be said after you say that he is the finest pure painter ever? Susanna Kaysen, the author of “Girl, Interrupted,” surmises that the subject of “Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap” (circa 1510) “looks to the left, into the past.” Reading that, I see it. The other Titian portrait is of the artist’s best friend and tireless promoter, Pietro Aretino—poet, connoisseur, power broker, feared satirist, author of popular devotional literature and pornography, intimate of rulers including the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and altogether one of...

My favourite painting: Victoria Beckham, Simon Schama and Lena Dunham on their art obsessions As the Frick Collection, the world’s finest private gallery, moves to a new home, five famous fans introduce their pick of its paintings 6 February 2021 • 6:00am 'It captivates me': Hans Holbein, Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Johannes Vermeer are among the picks of the Frick Credit: ©The Frick Collection. Photo: Michael Bodycomb Victoria Beckham on Officer and Laughing Girl (c 1657) by Johannes Vermeer As a relative newcomer to the world of Old Masters, I have spent time questioning, absorbing, and...

For many years I believed in UX. The so-called "user experience" of a website, app, or other digital product could spell the difference between success and failure. After all, an easy, intuitive, or convenient UX would make the customer's life better, while simultaneously achieving the team's goals - usually, higher profit or lower service costs. In 1997 I started Creative Good with this belief in UX. And for a number of years, the belief proved to be right. Companies saw a material benefit from making their products better - really, actually, better - for their customers. I'll call that Dec...

Sixty-two international personalities contributed to the anthology, 'The Sleeve Should Be Illegal & Other Reflections on Art At The Frick.' Photo: Handout What do Victoria Beckham, George Condo and Jenny Saville have in common? The answer is that they all share a love of Old Masters like Rembrandt, Jean Siméon Chardin and Antoine van Dyck. The artistes, writers and cultural figures talk about what draws them to these European painters in a new art book, published Jan 26 by The Frick Collection. While the renewed interest in Old Masters has been significant in recent years, the works of these...

Sixty-two cultural figures have contributed a text about their favourite work of art in the Frick Collection for a new publication, The Sleeve Should Be Illegal & Other Reflections on Art at the Frick. The book, published this month, was brought together in part to mark last year’s 85th anniversary of the much-loved New York museum, which houses the Old Masters collection amassed by the 19th-century industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The publication takes its title from one of the texts written by the US novelist Jonathan Lethem, who describes the sumptuous sleeve of Sir Thomas More, depicte...