We have all attended museum retrospectives … Room after room displaying the painter’s earliest struggles to find his artistic voice, the familiar mature works and..

Untimely death, lack of resources, will or exposure might contribute to an artist’s anonymity. But these were not the case for Gray Foy. I had never heard of Gray Foy until I had the good fortune to interview Steve Martin, the art-collector, banjo-player, actor and comedian, about his just-published book, An Object of Beauty.

If you are lucky enough to be visiting Paris before January 28, 2013, I would urge you to see the Edward Hopper exhibition at the..