I looked into the apartment, the place where my father grew up. It surprised me how desperate I was to soak up the details of his childhood home—the one room he slept in with his siblings, where he ...

The artist discusses a work by the 17th-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi that he believes “blows Caravaggio away.”CreditCredit...Joshua Charow, Christopher Mitchell and Bill Vella Longo ...