Art for snobs: what's keeping great paintings from the public?

Unfashionable and undemocratic, the old masters are due a makeover – not to push their prices up, but to ensure the widest possible audience enjoy themThe other night I stood in a young, boozy crowd that roared and laughed with delight at a work of art that’s more than 400 years old. Yet now I see a depressing feature in the New York Times claims that “old master” art has lost all relevance, is no longer of much interest to collectors, and may even cease to be sold by maj