Reading the Art World: Richard Lacayo
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For this month’s episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly interviews Richard Lacayo, author of Last Light: How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a Time of Triumph, published by Simon & Schuster. The book highlights the careers of some of history’s finest artists — Titian, Goya, Monet, Matisse, Hopper and Nevelson — many of whom produced some of their best works in old age. As Richard’s book reveals, the importance of much of this late-in-life work would not be fully understood or appreciated until decades later.
"I wanted artists who, in their long life, did some of their most powerful art in their seventies and eighties. It doesn't have to be, by any means, their only powerful period. But, we all recognize now, they went out on a high note." — Richard Lacayo
Richard is one of the world’s leading art critics and he was a longtime writer and editor at Time Magazine. From 2003 to 2016 he was the magazine’s art and architecture critic. Richard has also written on art and architecture for People, Foreign Policy, and Graydon Carter's new online publication, Air Mail. In 2013, he delivered a lecture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on the late careers of artists, the topic of his latest book.
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