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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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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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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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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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“When the spirit moves me and the work goes well, I dance.”
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This week: Mona Chalabi on animating hijabis, the history of screensavers, Mexican activists fight big tech, the flip phone revolution, Pedro Pascal cookies, and much more.
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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.
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A View From the Easel
“There’s a Rauschenberg piece I like to sit with to reconnect with why I make art at all.”