bell hooks is one of my favorite essayists, this collection on art is great— others that I really enjoyed are, Sex and the Single Woman, They Were Her Property, or more contemporary/recent history, Rising by Elizabeth Rush.
I was in fine arts, working as a registrar at a small art conservation business for an insane Russian woman committing tax fraud. While I did get to touch picasso’s signature, I also could not pay my bills and spent many days in tears in my boss’s son’s bedroom (I worked in her dining room). Now I am unemployed & looking for grant writing/administrative jobs that pay a normal amount of money and have an HR department
