Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

New Museum—

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

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

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

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

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.

The freedom of disregard.

You have to make a lot of work, she said, because 85 percent of what artists make is junk.

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