If there is a fact that best represents the stresses of our current moment, it is this: Alex Ryvchin has a bodyguard, and so does the portrait of Alex Ryvchin currently hanging in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Ryvchin heads the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the country’s mainstream Jewish umbrella organization. The portrait is Australian painter Michael Zavros’s entry—which has now been named as a finalist—for the prestigious Archibald Prize. Zavros has painted Ryvchin wearing