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A View From the Easel
“New Mexico light saturates my studio, it snakes across the floor, it permeates the air.”
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.
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A View From the Easel
“When I'm painting, I think of the myths, the characters, the gods. I mentally walk alongside them.”
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A View From the Easel
“When it starts to rain, it will literally change the painting.”
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Required Reading
This week: film restorers perform magic, sellout comedians in Riyadh, Native boarding school survivors tell their stories, remembering Jane Goodall, ranking pasta shapes, and more.
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Required Reading
This week: how Serbia inspired the Renaissance, an independent magazine sues ICE, Shakespeare’s enigmatic rival, audiobook narrators deserve better, the music of Palestinian tatreez, and more.
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A View From the Easel
“Charcoal is my first and most enduring love.”
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12 Art Books to Read This Fall
A Louise Bourgeois biography, Joe Sacco’s latest graphic investigation, a Wifredo Lam catalog, a study of diasporic Nigerian women artists, and more.
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A View From the Easel
“Funny enough, what I want in my studio is what I want for my life.”
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Required Reading
This week: Ta-Nehisi Coates on responses to Charlie Kirk’s death, building the Sagrada Família, the Studio Museum’s intergenerational impact, plastic surgery waste, and more.
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Passports, Prints, and Protest at the NY Art Book Fair
The indie presses exhibiting at Printed Matter’s annual fair, now back at MoMA PS1, put an irreverent twist on the subversive histories of radical publishing.
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This week: Nan Goldin interviews Mahmoud Khalil, Jane Austen and money, Wikipedia under attack, Etsy witches, trolling the National Guard in DC, and more.
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A View From the Easel
“I cannot allow myself to dread going to the studio, because I am there all the time.”