Community
A View From the Easel
“Rainy dreary days are good for crocheting and sunny days are good for drawing.”
Lakshmi Rivera Amin
Lakshmi Rivera Amin is an editor and writer based in Brooklyn. She graduated with a BA in Ethnicity, Race & Migration from Yale University in 2021 and is currently an Associate Editor at Hyperallergic.
Books
Indie Books and Holiday Miracles at Brooklyn’s Press Play Fair
The two-day event was a welcome cure to holiday-season fatigue, with accordion zines, rare books, and copper wire-bound short stories.
Art
Required Reading
This week: the unsolved mystery of an 18th-century portrait, journalists leave X en masse, orcas wear “dead salmon hats,” exorbitant college furniture, a puppy art gallery, and much more.
Community
A View From the Easel
“I like to use oil paints on a reflective surface, bending the light to my will.”
Art
Required Reading
This week: The Indigenous woman in Dorothea Lange’s famous photo, Brutalist speakers, a new mural in SF, horses as healers, and can we really speak to animals?
Community
A View From the Easel
“My day begins softly.”
Satire
Which Artist’s Pie Takes the Cake?
After a tense week of competition and a food fight among the Surrealists, which contestants will advance to the next round of the Great Artists’ Bake Off?
Community
A View From the Easel
“Ink is a simple material, but it’s given me everything I have in my life. It allows precision but demands surrender.”
Art
Required Reading
This week: a queer Black architect and her archives, the cozy tech aesthetic, “paleo-artists,” honest reviews of elementary school plays, nonsensical design, and much more.
Art
Required Reading
This week: the painting that inspired August Wilson, a lesbian magazine celebrates 50 years, sign language commodification, bodega cats in NYC, and much more.
Community
A View From the Easel
“These four hours every afternoon are sacred, and if anyone disturbs me, I will bite their head off as my poor family knows all too well.”
Community
A View From the Easel
“I feel safe here.”