Lakshmi Rivera Amin

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Required Reading

This week: the Black Arts Movement’s radical aesthetics, Gatsby boat tours, advice columns, Hot Girls for Zohran, Gen Z dumps glitter on ICE, and much more.

Community

A View From the Easel

“Sometimes, I need to live with a piece to fall in love with it and get rid of any doubt that brews, a struggle many artists know well.”

Guide

Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now

From Glenn Ligon’s critique of society’s ills to Diane Arbus’s complicity in them, the solo shows below provide plenty of food for thought.

Art Review

Chloë Bass Eschews the Clichés of Mixed-Race Art

The artist’s Twice Seen explores visibility and perception, challenging us to refuse to turn one another into novelties.

Community

Required Reading

This week: when Toni Morrison edited Barbara Chase-Riboud, trans women artists in Mexico, Jane Austen paraphernalia, a pigeon pageant on the High Line, and much more.

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A View From the Easel

“I can paint in my pajamas and at any time of day.”

Community

Required Reading

This week: art adorns the steps of the Brooklyn museum, animals as sculptors, Sly Stone’s musical revolution, lessons from Kurdish women journalists, flying zebras, and much more.

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A View From the Easel

“I have come to welcome spontaneity.”

Community

Required Reading

This week: Alison Bechdel has a new graphic novel, Noor Abdalla on facing motherhood alone, Nathan Fielder’s unhinged brilliance, a vegetable orchestra in London, and more.

Community

A View From the Easel

“This space is a creative mess, and I like it that way. It feels alive.”

Community

Required Reading

This week: archiving BLM protest art, Walt Whitman selfies, the legacy of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, being Black at art school, hummingbird evolution, and much more.

Community

A View From the Easel

“When the spirit moves me and the work goes well, I dance.”