What is the first thing to learn in art school? "Art can be anything." The second thing? "Learn to draw." With 101 Things to Learn in Art School, artist and teacher Kit White delivers and develops such lessons, striking an instructive balance between technical advice and sage concepts. These 101 maxims, meditations, and demonstrations offer both a toolkit of ideas for the art student and a set of guiding principles for the artist. Complementing each of the 101 succinct texts is an equally expressive drawing by the artist, often based on a historical or contemporary work of art, offering a visual correlative to the written thought. "Art can be anything" is illustrated by a drawing of Duchamp's famous urinal; a description of chiaroscuro art is illuminated by an image "after Caravaggio"; a lesson on time and media is accompanied by a view of a Jenny Holzer projection; advice about surviving a critique gains resonance from Piero della Francesca's arrow-pierced Saint Sebastian. 101 Things to Learn in Art School offers advice about the issues artists confront across all artistic media, but this is no simple handbook to making art. It is a guide to understanding art as a description of the world we live in, and it is a guide to using art as a medium for thought. And so this book belongs on the reading list of art students, art teachers, and artists, but it also belongs in the library of everyone who cares about art as a way of understanding life.

在艺术学校学习的第一件事是什么？"艺术可以是任何东西"。第二件事？"学会画画"。在《艺术学校要学的101件事》中，艺术家兼教师Kit White提供并发展了这样的课程，在技术建议和圣贤概念之间达成了一种指导性的平衡。这101条格言、冥想和示范既为艺术学生提供了一个思想工具箱，也为艺术家提供了一套指导原则。作为对这101条简明文字的补充，艺术家的绘画作品也同样具有表现力，通常是基于历史或当代的艺术作品，为书面思想提供视觉上的关联。杜尚著名的小便池的图画说明了 "艺术可以是任何东西"；"卡拉瓦乔之后 "的图像照亮了对明暗艺术的描述；关于时间和媒体的课程伴随着珍妮-霍尔泽的投影；关于在批评中生存的建议从皮耶罗-德拉-弗朗西斯卡的带箭的圣塞巴斯蒂安中获得共鸣。在艺术学校要学的101件事》对艺术家在所有艺术媒体中面临的问题提供了建议，但这不是简单的艺术创作手册。它是一本将艺术理解为描述我们生活的世界的指南，也是一本将艺术作为思想媒介的指南。因此，这本书属于艺术学生、艺术教师和艺术家的阅读清单，但它也属于每个关心艺术作为理解生活方式的人的图书馆。