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A View From the Easel
“I can paint in my pajamas and at any time of day.”
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.
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.
Community
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.
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A View From the Easel
“When the spirit moves me and the work goes well, I dance.”
Community
A View From the Easel
“Central heating would be nice.”
Community
Required Reading
This week: Mona Chalabi on animating hijabis, the history of screensavers, Mexican activists fight big tech, the flip phone revolution, Pedro Pascal cookies, and much more.
Art Review
Five New York City Shows to See Right Now
From ceramic alligators to Nordic traditions, artists focusing on personal concerns and identity are making some fascinating work.
Art Review
Transforming Sites of Violence, One Stitch at a Time
Photographer Spandita Malik invited nine women in North India to embroider their own portraits, reclaiming domestic spaces as liberated havens for their inner worlds.
Community
Required Reading
This week: Joe Sacco on truth and art, the invention of “close reading,” a century of Mrs. Dalloway, Google gets a makeover, the biggest and smallest dogs meet, and much more.