From Pablo Picasso to Cindy Sherman, Old Masters to contemporary charlatans, New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl ranges widely through the diverse and confusing art world, elucidating what we love about it in jargon-free prose. Intelligent, enthusiastic, and occasionally poetic, Schjeldahl offers dozens of profiles in this substantial anthology, adding to our understanding of Rembrandt, Vermeer, Courbet, Matisse, and Van Gogh, but also Warhol, De Kooning, Gorky, Duchamp, Koons, and Cartier-Bresson."This is a rapturous read for art lovers and all who appreciate dynamic critical essays."—I>Booklist