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.”
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
5 Art Books to Light Your Path Through November
A biography of Andy Warhol’s mother, São Paulo’s Neo-Avant-Garde, resplendent Hokusai works, plus new monographs and catalogs to check out this month.
Community
A View From the Easel
“I feel safe here.”
Art
Required Reading
This week: Civil Rights photography, Chicago’s 1970s abortion network, the Nancy Drew convention, election memes so we can laugh to keep from crying, cinema-dog-raphy, and more.
Art
Suchitra Mattai Plants the Monument We Need
Gently swaying hives of orange, blue, and gold cloth guided me toward a circle of glacial monuments to transformation, fashioned from used and loved saris.
Art
Required Reading
This week, self-clicking computers, Saif Azzuz’s hymn to Indigenous plants, RIP Bed-Stuy Aquarium fishies, ugly Renaissance babies, Diwali-ween, and more.
Community
A View From the Easel
“Music is a crucial part of my routine, guiding me into an unconscious, fluid state where ideas emerge freely.”
Art
Required Reading
This week: Courbet gets the electoral treatment, the politics of the waistline, ugly medieval dogs, and what happens when you fall out of love with an artwork?
Community
A View From the Easel
“I have a day job, too, so studio time is precious.”
Art
Required Reading
This week: Recreating Rubens’s studio, Brooklyn honors the legacy of rapper Ka, the largest map of the cosmos to date, Ratatouille in real life, and are video games art?
Community
A View From the Easel
“If the landlord would allow me to install a shower, I would probably move in for real. Sadly, it's a no-go.”
Art
Required Reading
This week: public art around NYC, artists in Gaza honor the land, China’s boba-industrial complex, the UK’s last African colony gets returned, how to out-diva JD Vance, and much more.