Books Newsletter
White Girls and the Global South
Happy spring! If you've been stuck in a reading slump like me, look no further.
Lakshmi Rivera Amin
Lakshmi Rivera Amin is an editor and writer based in Brooklyn. She earned a BA in Ethnicity, Race & Migration from Yale University in 2021 and currently works as an Associate Editor at Hyperallergic.
Required Reading
This week: Ukrainian mosaics, artists and motherhood, Dolores Huerta speaks out, copaganda in the US, wall labels versus artworks, and is your diet a little bit fascist?
Community
A View From the Easel
“I wish I had a vegetable garden next to my studio and a pig walking around in my workspace.”
Feature
What Do We Really Think of the New New Museum?
Hyperallergic’s editors sit down for an earnest conversation about the institution’s expanded building and inaugural exhibition.
In Memoriam
Remembering Axel Burrough, Kazumasa Nagai, and Éliane Radigue
This week, we honor a pioneering composer, Indigenous muralist, and Upper East Side gallerist.
Feature
The Sartorial Is Political in “The New York Sari”
At the New York Historical, an exhibition reminds us that the sari is a living art form, an heirloom, a document, and a political statement in one.
Community
Required Reading
This week: women’s strike in Argentina, graffiti dialogues in Brooklyn, UK museums hold human remains from former colonies, mini Tudor paintings, mapping The Met, and more.
Community
A View From the Easel
“I use my entire body when painting, so I need to align it with my mind beforehand.”
Guide
7 Art Books for Your March Reading List
Read up on the hidden history of occult influences on modernism, French sign painters, the Finnish painter who bucked convention, incarcerated artists, and more.
Books Newsletter
Lisette Model’s Silenced Jazz Pictures
The story of Lisette Model and other photographers who shaped the way we historicize social movements today.
Community
Required Reading
This week: Iranian heritage sites, a Native artist’s anti-ICE beadwork, France’s Braille Museum, mapping Black-owned bookstores, the business behind America’s sauna frenzy, and more.
Community
A View From the Easel
“I work as an attorney during the day and let loose at night in my studio.”