In the season 4 premiere of The Madness of Art, Jim’s friend Charlie Hewitt (American, b.1946) invites him to the cultural community of Chautauqua in upstate New York.

“My female friends still seem to be stuck in the way my mother was stuck in the 60s. Through the decades, nothing really changes for women,” she says. “It isn’t easy to be an artist.

Galleries The Madness of Art: Who’s Counting?—Season 2, Episode 5 Jim and Dru debate the fine art of semantics. Jim Kempner July 2, 2013 Share This Article ...

When women breach social stereotypes and act unpredictably, it is often called madness. In “The Kindergarten Teacher,” starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as the title character, a disturbing ...