The Lady with the Dog is a title that I borrowed from Chekhov’s short story. While Chekhov’s story revolves around an affair, in the realm of art, dogs have frequently symbolized fidelity.

Where these artworks go, tales of bad luck, possession and even death tend to follow.

Eileen Harris Norton “built a whole new mountain and somehow got everyone to come climb up it,” the artist Mark Bradford says. By Jonathan Griffin The fuzzy provenance of a Franz Marc masterwork once ...