Art
Required Reading
This week: Celia Paul’s transportive brush, yoga-washing, the mythology of American orphanhood, one grandma’s Lunar New Year photoshoot, the science of laughter, and more.
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.
Community
A View From the Easel
“I love that I can be here with my family, we can create together, and what we create can exist side by side.”
Art
Required Reading
This week: female directors dominate Indian film, fiber arts as therapy, the chilling influence of conservative YouTubers, Bad Bunny’s new album, rodent cinematography, and much more.
Community
A View From the Easel
“Being surrounded by our work feels like being surrounded by children — it brings us immense joy, but it can also make our minds restless.”
Art
Required Reading
This week: subway art honors NYC’s Native history, García Márquez on Netflix, Rachmaninoff’s last student turns 100, test-driving IKEA rooms, and much more.
Community
A View From the Easel
“After teaching middle school for years, quiet still feels like a rare and precious luxury. Many ideas come to me amidst this silence.”
Books
10 Old Art Books to Read in the New Year
This year, we’re rereading a fictional dialogue by Oscar Wilde, bell hooks’s book of art criticism, prose poetry by Etel Adnan, and more titles that won’t make it onto most industry lists.
Art
Required Reading
This week: photojournalists amid California’s wildfires, Leonora Carrington in Mexico, Black Philly artists sew reusable pads, an AI lawsuit tracker, and can fiction make men better people?
Community
A View From the Easel
“My studio, in a sense, is an escape where I can re-enter my art world and create.”
Community
A View From the Easel
“Fabrics are everywhere — we touch them, they clothe us, they contain histories and memories.”
Art
Required Reading
This week: letterpress printing in the digital age, the origin of the snow globe, remembering Jimmy Carter, why Hollywood ditched color, and much more.
Community
A View From the Easel
“My one true love is oil paint.”