” …there are experts and then there are experts, and they come in varying degrees of credibility.” So writes Milton Esterow about keepers of the canon in the  art world, particularly those devoted to Pablo Picasso’s contemporary, Amedeo Modigliani. (“The Modigliani Code

Picasso enjoys a lock on the minds of art lovers like no other. A majority of artists, like me, spend the bulk of our lives canoeing against the tide of indifference.  Our work is seldom seen and seldom admired beyond friends and family.  Little wonder that we seldom consider the do