![]() ![]() Earlier this summer, she published a new commissioned artist’s book, From Slavery to Freedom. In 2019, her solo exhibitions “Freedom from Truth: Self-Portraits of Nell Painter” and “Odalisque Atlas: White History as Told Through Art” were mounted at Harvard. Old in Art School (2018), Nell’s eighth book of nonfiction, is a wonderfully frank reflection on her brave years as an art student after her decades spent as a prizewinning, tenured academic. It didn’t take long to realize that she was Nell Irvin Painter, esteemed scholar of history and race, whose bestselling book The History of White People (2010) was just about to be published. ![]() ![]() I met the Newark-based artist Nell Painter a decade ago at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD): I was “too young” to be teaching a graduate theory and criticism seminar and Nell was in the class, “too old” to be an art student. Nell Painter in conversation with Lauren O'Neill-Butler ![]()
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