How do we judge what is good in art? Or more to the controversial point,
can we judge art? Acclaimed museum director Maxwell Anderson, newly
named Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, enters the
fray with The Quality Instinct. Part personal memoir, part thinking
person's guide to the museum, The Quality Instinct is filled with wit
and humor, anecdotes, and insights from the author's 30 years in the
highly competitive, often contentious art world. Anderson takes us on a
grand tour of ancient and contemporary art, sharing five simple metrics
of quality that help us to increase our visual literacy as we learn to
see, not simply look and judge.