‣ Design is a minefield of ethical dilemmas, incentivizing companies to work with exploitative clients and making it difficult for employees to say no. Elizabeth Goodspeed spoke with a few designers, writing in It’s Nice That: Questions about client ethics...
Welcome to the 300th installment — woohoo! — of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists bring a Parisian sensibility to Nebraska and return to their dream studio after two decades. Want to take part? Check out...
‣ Sudanese dentist-turned-artist Hashim Nasr is using photography to highlight the pain of displacement amid the nation’s civil war, his surreal compositions like portals into the inner world of his subjects. The Guardian‘s Kaamil Ahmed writes: His...
Welcome to the 299th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists on different continents speak the language of oil paint. Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a...
‣ Residents of New York’s Chinatown neighborhood, including artists, have protested the construction of a megajail there for years. April Xu reports for Documented on a public workshop on the jail’s design, and how community members who oppose it...
Welcome to the 298th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists carve monumental wooden seagulls and relish painting and drawing on cardboard. Want to take part? Check out our submission...
‣ Three years after Kaci Merriwether-Hawkins founded Black Girls in Art Spaces, Adria R. Walker visited one meet-up in Mississippi to report on the organization’s growth across the country for the Guardian: Initially, BGIAS started relatively small, with...
Welcome to the 297th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists turn branches into sculptures and begin the work day by playing with their cat. Want to take part? Check out our submission...
‣ The newly opened Santa Ynez Chumash Museum and Cultural Center is making waves, with a unique approach to ancestral knowledge, ecology, and community. Jeanette Marantos of the Los Angeles Times writes: Inside, the exhibits are arranged in a meandering flow...
Welcome to the 296th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists prepare to say goodbye to their current studio and draw on the earth tones of an upbringing spent in the Southwest. Want to take part?...
‣ For the Nation, Kate Wagner writes about how the West finally caught up with Iranian brickwork: Brickwork has long played an important role in Persian architecture simply because it is the most widely available material, tied intimately with the climate and...
Welcome to the 295th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists work to the sound of electricity buzzing and find community in the Chicago art scene. Want to take part? Check out our submission...