“After teaching middle school for years, quiet still feels like a rare and precious luxury. Many ideas come to me amidst this silence.”
Lakshmi Rivera Amin
Lakshmi Rivera Amin (she/her) is a writer and artist based in New York City. She currently works as an associate editor at Hyperallergic.
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10 Old Art Books to Read in the New Year
This year, we’re rereading a fictional dialogue by Oscar Wilde, bell hooks’s book of art criticism, prose poetry by Etel Adnan, and more titles that won’t make it onto most industry lists.
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Required Reading
This week: photojournalists amid California’s wildfires, Leonora Carrington in Mexico, Black Philly artists sew reusable pads, an AI lawsuit tracker, and can fiction make men better people?
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A View From the Easel
“My studio, in a sense, is an escape where I can re-enter my art world and create.”
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A View From the Easel
“Fabrics are everywhere — we touch them, they clothe us, they contain histories and memories.”
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Required Reading
This week: letterpress printing in the digital age, the origin of the snow globe, remembering Jimmy Carter, why Hollywood ditched color, and much more.
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Required Reading
This week: Dalit art and appropriation, Gisèle Pelicot and dignity for survivors, a Dakota recipe for holiday meals, the truth about Santa, and more.
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A View From the Easel in Los Angeles
“The LA sunsets are always amazing colors that I love seeing next to my paintings.”
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Required Reading
This week: An homage to Romani culture in Manhattan, AI movies in theaters, Syrian activists speak out, remembering Nikki Giovanni, Luigi Mangione fever, and much more.
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A View From the Easel
“Rainy dreary days are good for crocheting and sunny days are good for drawing.”
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Indie Books and Holiday Miracles at Brooklyn’s Press Play Fair
The two-day event was a welcome cure to holiday-season fatigue, with accordion zines, rare books, and copper wire-bound short stories.