Art
Required Reading
This week, how to break up with your art-snob boyfriend, a pioneering woman graffiti artist, the rot in Rotten Tomatoes, and what would Ursula K. Le Guin have to say about AI-generated art?
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.
Art
The Imperfect Charm of Spring Break Art Show
Though lacking much of its former spark, the show continues to provide a niche for artists outside of the market-driven fair sphere.
Community
A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in Maine, Oregon, New Jersey, and California.
Guide
Your Guide to Art Excursions Outside NYC This Fall
Here are 19 art exhibitions to check out in Upstate New York, Long Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey.
Interview
10 Questions for an Artist Who Grows Her Own Pigments
Ellie Irons explains how she mindfully harvests plants and transforms them into paints, a labor of love detailed in her how-to guide Feral Hues.
Community
A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in Oaxaca City, Massachusetts, Southern California, and New York.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Brooklyn’s perpetual stew, the harms of “professionalism,” antique pencil sharpeners, Bratz respond to Barbenheimer, and much more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, threats to Silk Road monuments, the origins of “the male gaze,” social commentary in Miyazaki films, and how to explain homophobia to your straight friends.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Renaissance astrology charts, World’s Fair art hidden around NYC, the virtues of a cluttered home, “pretty privilege” discourse returns, and much more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action, Barbiecore interior design, and how the CIA shaped what we consider “great” literature.
Community
A View From the Easel
This week, a special Pride Month edition of studios in Michigan, New York City, San Francisco, and “anywhere.”
Art
Required Reading
This week, linguists identify a Miami-specific English dialect, Bookforum is back, the media’s selective choice of maritime disasters, and how do you turn a plastic takeout container into a DIY hologram?