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A View From the Easel
“My day begins softly.”
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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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?
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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.”
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?