1.   His art seems to be enjoying a vogue these days.

2.   In fact he admits that art seems to take over his life at times.

3.   And art does seem to follow fairly predictable cycles, typically lasting about seven years.

4.   And his art seems to be pervaded by the hunkered-down atmosphere of that northern European city in mid-winter.

5.   At the same time, art seems to be struck all but mute by the Holocaust, a nightmare that began somewhere but seems to end nowhere.

6.   All the arts seem to have been called up for active duty.

7.   But on the whole, the art seems protected only precariously.

8.   Children, for instance, are always drawn, as if genetically programmed, to the Egyptian section of a museum because Egyptian art seems immediately understandable to them.

9.   Discussing serious art often seems to necessitate abandoning a sense of humor.

10.   Each summer has its calendar of parties and its new crop of galleries, and this season art seems to be for sale everywhere.