Old in Art School
By Nell Painter
352 pages
At 64, Painter, a vaunted historian, retires from her
professorship at Princeton to fulfill the promise of her name and pick up a
brush. She charts her exhilarating journey—from a BFA student at
Rutgers to a master's candidate at the Rhode Island School of Design—as
"an 'emerging artist,' but in an old body," for whom "art
stopped time."
— Leigh Haber
