The couple has assembled a world-class collection of more than 400 works, valued at over $800 million, that include modern, contemporary, Old Master, and Renaissance objects.
Was it an extravagant free public artwork, mounted in a city park as a gift to the people? Or a very expensive billboard, a glowing arrow pointing at a big new real-estate development?
One sweltering afternoon earlier this week, the artist Sheila Hicks was enjoying a blueberry popsicle as she leaned against a railing on the High Line on the far West Side of Manhattan and
Jon Rafman may not be a mystic, but he believes in the mysteries of the deep internet. He’s an obsessive Googler and a frequenter of online forums—the kind of user who searches and…