I’ve reviewed art in a tuxedo.

I’ve reviewed it in shorts and sneakers.

I’ve reviewed it in a fur hat and snow boots.

But I’ve never before done my critic’s job in wetsuit and flippers.

I’d be tempted to make a habit of it, now, if only I could get our museums to flood.

On a sunny November day off Miami Beach, Florida, I went aquatic for the first time to take in Reefline, a new program of underwater public art that has sunk its first project 20 feet below the waves, some 800 feet from shore. For “Concrete Coral,” Argentine artist Leandro Erlich produced 22 sculptures of automobiles, made from concrete at life size, then had them lined up on the seafloor in a traffic jam 90 feet long.

Floating above those “cars,” diving among them, felt like an almost ideal art experience (minus the

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