There’s a wonderful freedom in not having to prove anything.

In The Art World, illustration is inferior to art on account of serving an end that is not art. Illustration serves subject matter,

New York Studio School on 8th Street in Manhattan.

Literally something flayed, an écorché is a body with the skin taken off to reveal the muscle, bone, and sinew.

New Museum—

You can be the greatest artist in the world, but if the eyes that matter aren’t on your work, and if the people who count don’t speak up for you, you hardly exist beyond your own local circle.

Critics call a preoccupation with appearance that ignores social meaning formalism, which carries a negative taint these days when formalism divorces art from the power relations surrounding its creation and circulation.

race, which wasn’t invented until the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century.

Pentimento refers to traces of original drawing that the artist has erased.