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?
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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