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A View From the Easel
“Gardening keeps me preoccupied as my ideas continue to germinate.”
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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A View From the Easel
“This space is a creative mess, and I like it that way. It feels alive.”
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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.”
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A View From the Easel
“Central heating would be nice.”