“Showing off the life of the mind” by Robert Fulford in the National Post 2008-12-30
By shrewdly choosing the best material available, A&LD has emerged as the most useful intellectual magazine in the English-speaking world.
In 1993 two Russian artists, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, organized a statistically impeccable survey of taste in 10 countries. They concluded that people from Iceland to China hold similar opinions about art: All express affection for landscapes, particularly landscapes dominated by blue, with water somehow involved.
