A View From the Easel

Sep 12, 2025

Welcome to the 302nd installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists in Upstate New York make work in their childhood bedroom and revel in the imperfections of their studio. Want to take part? Check out...

Required Reading

Sep 5, 2025

‣ Robert Colquhoun and Bobby MacBryde were once household names in the London art world, until they weren’t. Author Damian Barr writes in the Guardian about the now-obscure artists, whose lives he attempts to recreate in his new novel: I stumbled across them as...

A View From the Easel

Sep 5, 2025

Welcome to the 301st installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists hold glass up to the light and use cyanotype to meditate on the shifting blues of the sky. Want to take part? Check out...

Required Reading

Aug 29, 2025

‣ 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...

A View From the Easel

Aug 29, 2025

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...

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Aug 22, 2025

‣ 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...

A View From the Easel

Aug 22, 2025

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...

Required Reading

Aug 15, 2025

‣ 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...

A View From the Easel

Aug 15, 2025

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...

Required Reading

Aug 8, 2025

‣ 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...

A View From the Easel

Aug 8, 2025

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...