CULTURAL ANALYSIS

CULTURAL ANALYSIS

Laurie Fendrich is an artist, an art critic, and a professor of fine arts at Hofstra University. Her articles about both art and art education have been published in the New York Times and ArtNews magazine, and her drawings and paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States and Canada. This article originally appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2008.

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