Art in an Emergency: Talking to Olivia Laing and Lucy Ives

Talking art and crisis

By LARB Radio HourMay 27, 2020

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    Kate and Medaya talk to the critic and writer Olivia Laing about her new collection of essays Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency. The three discuss the role of art in dark times, Olivia’s environmental activist youth and what she turns to during a crisis. Then, Lucy Ives joins the hosts to discuss the legacy of the artist, architect and writer Madeline Gins, whose work was recently collected into a comprehensive reader titled The Saddest Thing is That I Have Had to Use Words.

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    The LARB Radio Hour is hosted by Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf.

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