India, Sept. 25 -- It's not that deep. Humans have been making art before we even invented the wheel. What we've been doing, all these thousands of years, via cave paintings, oils-on-canvas, classroom doodles, chromolithographs, Bayeux Tapestries, graphic T-shirts and bananas taped to a wall is essentially the same thing. We've been trying to make sense of the human condition.

Sometimes, we get it. Ravi Varma's elegant ladies tell us the whole story. For everything else? There's new kinds of help.

The Louvre recently introduced jargon-free trails such as their My First Louvre tour. London's Tate Modern and New York's Museum of Modern Art have trained staff to be Roaming Art Explainers who pop in to galleries all day and address visitor ...