Nell Painter

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• 10/5/18
  

  A Distinguished History Professor Retires—Then Goes to Art School

  by Robin Lindley

  A conversation with historian Nell Painter on her life in history and her “encore career” in art.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  4-8-18
  

  This Historian Gave Up an Ivy League Professorship

  Now Nell Painter Says She Is "the Uncoolest Artist in the World.”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12-10-15
  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates sides with Nell Painter: Racism is probably here to stay

  Writers who commit themselves to only writing hopeful things are committing themselves to the ahistorical and the mythical.