The New York Times Visits Juliana Huxtable in Berlin

Readers of the New York Times get a behind-the-scenes tour of Juliana Huxtable's Berlin apartment and creative process while she assembles her second collection of poetry. "I'm thankful I have writing to turn to," Huxtable tells Aisha Harris, "because it requires so little but can do so much." More, from there: 

Huxtable started writing poetry around age 8 and, during high school, contributed poems and digital art to various early 2000s blogs. While at Bard, she felt alienated from wealthy classmates who had “a self-awareness about their relationship to art-making” and instead delved into philosophy, gender theory and literature, eventually sharing her latest ideas within the more diffuse realm of Tumblr, where she gained a following. “The distinction between being a cultural consumer and a cultural producer was more collapsible there,” said Huxtable. “And there was slippage between that and generating a real practice.” She believes that her interests in writing and internet subculture have given her an alternate space and shielded her from the powerful systems many artists have to work within — first “the art-school industrial complex,” she said, and then the art world itself, even if she must still rely on the latter to execute her more complex projects.

Read on at the New York Times.