Lakshmi Rivera Amin

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Editorial Coordinator at Hyperallergic

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Articles

Required Reading

1 week ago | hyperallergic.com | Lakshmi Rivera Amin

‣ For Studio International, writer and curator Yasmeen Siddiqui excavates the layered political dimensions of the work of artist Lee Bul, whose headless sculptures are currently standing sentinel outside The Met:In the 1990s, Lee began a body of work, a counterpoint to the soft, fabric sculptures that speak of internal bodiliness. Her Cyborg and Anagram series have been described as doppelgangers, but I prefer to understand them as counterpoints within a whole, as opposed to a mirroring or twin.
A View From the Easel

1 week ago | hyperallergic.com | Lakshmi Rivera Amin

Welcome to the 281st installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists embed the forest in their prints and find comfort in the imperfections of hand-dyed wool. Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio. How long have you been working in this space?
Required Reading

2 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Lakshmi Rivera Amin

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. ‣ Identifying the color of your aura is trending, thanks to an ill-conceived TikTok filter.
A View From the Easel

2 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Lakshmi Rivera Amin

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Welcome to the 280th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists in New York City capture light streaming through their windows and piece together the history of a family brownstone. Want to take part?
A View From the Easel

3 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Lakshmi Rivera Amin

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Welcome to the 279th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists find creative kinship online and breathe in the sea air from an open window. Want to take part?
Majority of Artists Only Read Reviews of Their Own Work, Survey Finds

3 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Lakshmi Rivera Amin

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. “Hell, if I don’t read them, who will?”This is not the musing of a writer contemplating their forthcoming zine series, nor a poet gesturing toward a closet full of copies of their first collection. It’s a line from a recent nationwide survey of over 20,000 artists, which found that the vast majority only read reviews of their own work.
The World’s Biggest Print Fair Returns With Surprises

3 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Lakshmi Rivera Amin

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Deborah R. Grayson never expected to find her way back to printmaking. “I was actually a painter until the pandemic. Then I couldn’t get into my studio. All I had were tools and wood at my house,” she explained.
Required Reading

4 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Lakshmi Rivera Amin

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. ‣ British painter Dora Carrington (no relation to Leonora), largely marginalized in accounts of the storied Bloomsbury Group, is finally the subject of a show mining her life and art.
A View From the Easel

4 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Lakshmi Rivera Amin

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Welcome to the 278th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists build a trap door in their studio and turn the floor into a gallery wall. Want to take part?
Five New York City Shows to See Right Now

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Lakshmi Rivera Amin |Lisa Zhang |John Yau |Tim Keane

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Making the ordinary inexplicable, painting landscapes of the psyche, and creating layers that shouldn’t exist. Those descriptions correspond to Catherine Murphy, Dorothy Hood, and David Kennedy Cutler, three of the artists we’re looking at this week.