A View From the Easel

This week, artist studios in Montana, New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

Required Reading

This week, unopened 18th-century love letters, an unsung female archaeologist, Indigenous artists on the meaning of home, cookie-cutter holiday rom-coms, and more.

Ali Cherri’s Muddy Affair

The artist retells the myth of Gilgamesh through a meditation on mud, a primordial material and source of timeless storytelling.

On Getting Things a Little Less Wrong

Climate Futurism suggests that the world’s civilizations must process lessons from its fraught colonialist histories to prepare for future ecological difficulties.

Peter B. Jones Sculpts Truth to Power

The Onondaga artist has a propensity for cultural criticism — especially on the issues affecting Haudenosaunee and other Indigenous peoples, past and present.

Required Reading

This week, why Toni Morrison left publishing, the Artforum open letter debacle, Halloween costumes only New Yorkers will understand, and more.