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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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A View From the Easel
“Funny enough, what I want in my studio is what I want for my life.”
Community
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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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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Required Reading
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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Required Reading
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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Required Reading
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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Required Reading
This week: the death of Brat Summer, the problem with The Gilded Age, intersex activism, drunk architecture, and can we finally say “like” now?