Brooklyn Rail Contributor

Karen Chernick

is a Philadelphia-based arts and culture journalist, and her writing has appeared on Artsy, Hyperallergic, Lonely Planet, and The Forward, among other publications. She holds an MA in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU), and can be found online at www.karenchernick.com.



Nell Painter's Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

by Karen Chernick

JUL-AUG 2018 | Art Books

Nell Painter made no mention of the fact that she was enrolled as a first-year graduate painting student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) during her guest television appearance on The Colbert Report in March 2010. She wasn’t there to talk about the new career she had started from scratch, at age sixty-four, as an artist.

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