Yxta Maya Murray

Yxta Maya Murray is a writer and law professor who teaches at Loyola Law School.

Articles

Reanimating Marcel Duchamp
Hauser & Wirth’s “Marcel Duchamp” is a gorgeous and inchoate celebration of an uncategorizable artist.
Yxta Maya MurrayMay 9, 2022
- Art & Architecture
Melodrama and the Abyss: On María Amparo Escandón’s “L.A. Weather”
Yxta Maya Murray finds a call to action with the melodrama of “L.A. Weather” by María Amparo Escandón.
Yxta Maya MurrayOct 8, 2021
- Fiction
Are we doing the right thing?*
A poem and painting inspired by a question posed by Robert Walser, by Yxta Maya Murray.
Yxta Maya MurrayAug 3, 2021
The Art of Captivity: Luchita Hurtado
Illuminating conversations with a major L.A.-based Venezuelan-American female artist.
Yxta Maya MurrayApr 13, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Love and the Literary Leviathan: On Pola Oloixarac’s “Mona”
Yxta Maya Murray dives into the recent English-language translation of Pola Oloixarac’s “Mona.”
Yxta Maya MurrayMar 16, 2021
- Around the World
- Fiction
Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Yxta Maya Murray on Artists’ Responses to 9/11
Reeling from 9/11 but working on projects begun during the Clinton boom, some artists in 2002 were still able to romanticize millenarianism and the future.
Yxta Maya MurrayJan 17, 2020
- Art & Architecture
- Politics
“The World Is Chaos, but I’m Not Scared of It”: A Conversation with Lari Pittman
Lari Pittman speaks to Yxta Maya Murray about his retrospective at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
Yxta Maya MurrayJan 1, 2020
- Art & Architecture
Our Memories, Ourselves: On “Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement”
Yxta Maya Murray reviews “Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement,” edited by Shelly Oria.
Yxta Maya MurraySep 12, 2019
Letter From Wyoming
Yxta Maya Murray dispatches from Ucross, an artist residency program in rural Wyoming.
Yxta Maya MurrayJun 19, 2019
Modus Ponens
Yxta Maya Murray studies the strange logic of family separation and angel families.
Yxta Maya MurrayJun 26, 2018
Youtube Comment #2 to Björk - Sacrifice - Live @ Zénith de Paris, France, March, 8th (08-03-2013)
Art 1, Child 0.
Yxta Maya MurrayMay 31, 2018
- LARB Lit
LEAKED NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT BETWEEN [NAME REDACTED] AND [NAME REDACTED] INTERNATIONAL
A piece by Yxta Maya Murray.
Yxta Maya MurrayFeb 20, 2018
- Gender & Sexuality
- Politics
Comments on Lindsay Tunkl's Vimeo Posting of 'Is This What Feeling Feels Like? - First Attempt'
Yxta Maya MurrayDec 31, 2017
- Art & Architecture
Gentrification
A satirical piece by Yxta Maya Murray about the Boyle Heights artwashing controversy.
Yxta Maya MurraySep 19, 2016
- Cultural Studies
- Politics