Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

GALLERY REPRESENTATION, I quickly learned, is the main criterion for who counts as An Artist.

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

The freedom of disregard.

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.

Thomas Hirschhorn

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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.