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.
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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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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Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now
From Glenn Ligon’s critique of society’s ills to Diane Arbus’s complicity in them, the solo shows below provide plenty of food for thought.
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Chloë Bass Eschews the Clichés of Mixed-Race Art
The artist’s Twice Seen explores visibility and perception, challenging us to refuse to turn one another into novelties.
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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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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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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.”