Painters on Paintings is a conversation between contemporary artists and their influences across time.
Editor’s Note: Elizabeth Thompson and the Case of the Vanishing Lady
I wanted to draw your attention to the first episode of Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast Revisionist History, in which he looks at the career of painter Elizabeth Thompson as a way to think about tokenism, moral licensing, and being the first outsider to enter a closed world.
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Dennis Congdon on La Pittura di Giardino
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