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A View From the Easel
“My batik process is done in stages: from drawing, to waxing, to color staining, to boiling, and finally to oil painting.”
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.
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Required Reading
This week: Iranian artists remember the victims of the Minab airstrike, a trip through Alabama’s Barn Quilt Trail, Kansas City’s bygone lesbian haven, Erling Haaland memes, and more.
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A View From the Easel With Arghavan Khosravi
“It feels like I am spending my time doing what I love.”
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Required Reading
This week: James Turrell in Denmark, a new album by Raven Chacon, a Black radical history of the Declaration of Independence, World Cup songs across time, and more.
In Memoriam
Remembering Rune Mields, Onai Quiñonez, and Song Burnsoo
This week, we honor a German artist who plumbed the depths of geometry, a Venezuelan painter, and a Korean museum director and printmaker.
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A View From the Easel
“The privacy and silence reflect the intimacy and meditative spareness of my art.”
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Required Reading
This week: Scott Burton’s last sculpture, remembering Lebanese environmental activist Mona Khalil, AI slop in art journalism, NYC’s rollerskating queer icon, and more.
In Memoriam
Remembering Frayda Feldman, James Wagner, and Melodee Strong
This week, we honor an Andy Warhol print expert, a tireless art collector, and a beloved Minneapolis muralist.
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A View From the Easel
“My studio is a manifestation of my coloring book at eight years old.”
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Required Reading
This week: the Obama Center opens in Chicago, painting with Urdu script, glamour as protest, the woman who popularized astrology, an artist’s ode to pigeons, and more.
Books Newsletter
Lesbian Art Novels You Should Read
Sarah Schulman's fiction about lesbian artists, Vaginal Davis's new catalog, and more.
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A View From the Easel
“Without the fabric there would be no painting.”