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A View From the Easel: Gerardo Rosales
“I often say that my favorite material is the next one, the one I haven’t worked with yet.”
Lakshmi Rivera Amin
Lakshmi Rivera Amin is an editor, reader, 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, with a focus on books, at Hyperallergic.
Pocket Review
Ilana Savdie and Chaïm Soutine Shed the Skin
An exhibition pairing paintings by the two artists guides us through the chambers of our own minds and bodies.
Books Newsletter
Art Books on Needles and Threads
We recommend titles on fiber art, weaving, and textiles, plus Megan O’Grady on a new John Berger biography.
Community
A View From the Easel: Allan Wexler
“My past sculptures [and] tools act as levers that pry ideas from my mind.”
Guide
12 Must-Read Books on Textiles and Fiber Art
Titles on contemporary Diné weavers, Black American quilting in California, the Bayeux Tapestry, artists including Cecilia Vicuña and Olga de Amaral, and more.
Community
A View From the Easel: Flor Khan
“Here, I am allowed to play, to not know the answers, to let the message evolve on its own timing.”
Books Newsletter
Art Reads for Banned Books Week
J. M. W. Turner’s role in the slave trade, zines and riso prints from the New York Art Book Fair, and books we’re reading right now.
Community
A View From the Easel
“There’s a lot of construction going on en route. Sometimes I capture the sounds.”
Feature
No One Is Reading, Except at the New York Art Book Fair
The overlooked, subversive, and playful currents of politics and queer culture flow freely at the fair’s 20th anniversary edition, held at MoMA PS1.
Community
A View From the Easel
“I also have a mini trampoline that I’ve always had in my studio, it’s a reminder to stay playful.”
Books Newsletter
Poems for Alma Thomas
An excerpt from Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s book on the late painter, plus reviews of new titles by Sophie Lewis and Dana Mashoian Walrath.
Community
A View From the Easel
“Piles to start a project, piles during a project, and piles of stuff after it is finished.”