1.   True, the storyline was not completely didactic, which was just as well since when art does so it becomes dreary.

2.   As does the art of this appealing book.

3.   High-brow art does pretty well here, too.

4.   As in fact, most modern art does.

5.   Its collection causes us to react in a way that goes beyond reason and touches our nerves, which is precisely what art should do.

6.   No, what art does is as fundamental as language.

7.   So did American art.

8.   Some art does.

9.   That, of course, is what all art, to some degree, does.

10.   The paintings are calculated, like all successful art, but they are not generic, precisely because they refuse to behave the way other abstract art does.