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.
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.
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.
Community
A View From the Easel
“There’s a Rauschenberg piece I like to sit with to reconnect with why I make art at all.”
Community
A View From the Easel
“My studio currently stores all the supplies for the Queer Liberation March.”
Community
Required Reading
This week: surviving as an artist in New York City, nostalgic ’90s ads, Mohsen Madawi walks free, the Northern Lights speak, a seven-year-old’s gallery opening, and more.
Community
A View From the Easel
“You become part of the studio's rhythm, and in that negotiation, something shifts in the work.”
Books
10 Art Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer
The art of Marsha P. Johnson, Yoko Ono reappraised, Jack Whitten’s studio notebook, a fictional curator’s Greece trip goes awry, and more to read this season.
Community
Required Reading
This week: colonial photography through a Diné lens, Kikkoman soy sauce bottle design, Canadian nationalism on the rise, Australian twins become a meme, and much more.
Community
A View From the Easel
“This workspace allows the out of doors to come in.”
Art
Required Reading
This week: Lee Bul’s headless sentinels, Tracy Chapman on reissuing “Fast Car,” Viet Thanh Nguyen on the imperialism of American literature, biomorphic seawall designs, and more.
Community
A View From the Easel
“I always joke that I am working diligently on my PhD — Projects Half-Done.”
Art
Required Reading
This week: photographing auras, The Great Gatsby at 100, a dubious de-extinction project, the “cubs” of the Black Panther Party, art historical Drag Race, and much more.