Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

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.

Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects is considered art history’s foundational text.

Warhol’s lesson of divorcing social meaning from visual meaning,

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painters use tricks like putting a spot of white in the pupil of the eye to convey liveliness and making a muddy mixture of colors for an undecipherable facial shadow.

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

A woman in her eighties is a sage. She is dignity and wisdom. She inspires the world. She has gravitas. She is elegant.

How do you tell what art is “interesting”? It looks like art. What is art? Art is what’s in galleries. Now you know.

If you live long enough and you persist, you are going to get recognition; you must stay in the game.