Ageless Art

Title: Last light : how six great artists made old age a time of triumph
By: Richard Lacayo
Published: 2022

One of the nation's top art critics shows how six great artists made old age a time of triumph by producing the greatest work of their long careers—and, in some cases, changing the course of art history.

Title: Old in art school : a memoir of starting over
By: Nell Painter
Published: 2018

Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school—in her sixties—to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived.

Title: The 12-hour art expert : everything you need to know about art in a dozen masterpieces
By: Noah Charney
Published: 2022

The book guides readers through a select series of masterpieces of Western art—from cave paintings to sharks in formaldehyde. This book's twelve chapters teach readers about art—the trade, the history and more, all in a thorough (but concise) fashion. Each chapter is linked to one notable masterpiece, with references to others, giving readers a fixed, digestible number of objects that they will get to know in depth, and which they can use as a lens to understand the thousands of other related objects that they might encounter in the future.