Carol Kino

Reviled until recently, academic art is being revalued, and a museum inspired by a mystical Beirut collector is helping to show the way

Young London artists are attracting crowds -- not because of their flashy attention-seeking but because their art is understandable and unintimidating

As the New York art world rebounds, dealers are responding to an increasingneed for community--and to high rents--byreviving the artistic salon.

Presaging what might become atrend, a West Coast museum is paying to show part of the permanent collection of an overcrowded East Coast one