
The “three-way game” of Art
"Great art has dreadful manners." So begins Simon Schama's Art (Vintage). "The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you... Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to rearrange your sense of reality." Indeed. (The images below were taken on my "retro" iPhone SE during a too-brief tour of the European Galleries at the Romanian National Museum in Bucharest, while in the capital for Fulbright a