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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.”
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This week: rewriting the stories of two forgotten artists, how Jaws gave sharks a bad rep, Afghanistan earthquake aid, shady influencer funding, a radical history of boxing, and more.
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A View From the Easel
“I love the creaky floorboards and how they hold the memories of artists before me.”
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This week: The ethics of design, Noguchi Museum workers speak out, Native communities on the closure of “Alligator Alcatraz,” Letterboxd woes, music classes in Gaza, and more.
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A View From the Easel
“I wanted a true artist’s home — welcoming, colorful, like a cabinet of curiosities; weird, filled with me.”
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This week: Sudanese diasporic photography, art-world novels, inside Gaza’s only Catholic church, scientists ditch X, “Christian girl fall” threatens to return, and more.
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A View From the Easel
“Oil paint is endlessly versatile, has great presence, and always feels alive.”
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This week: the death of Brat Summer, the problem with The Gilded Age, intersex activism, drunk architecture, and can we finally say “like” now?
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A View From the Easel
“My work table is my dining table, teaching table, and painting table.”
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This week: 80 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Black Girls in Art Spaces, remembering a salsa luminary, Jinkx Monsoon takes on JK Rowling, and more.
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A View From the Easel
“I also tend to call my friends and gossip for hours while I paint.”
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Required Reading
This week: a new museum of Chumash history and culture, Sally Ride gets the doc she deserves, the future of fireflies, the beauty of “ugly” Instagram cakes, and much more.