Relevés and Revolutions: On Jennifer Homans’s “Mr. B”Martha Anne Toll reviews Jennifer Homans’s “Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century.”...MARTHA ANNE TOLLART & ARCHITECTUREHISTORYBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The Gravitas of the South: A Conversation with Pete CandlerTom Zoellner talks to Pete Candler about his new book “The Road to Unforgetting: Detours in the American South, 1997–2022.”...TOM ZOELLNERART & ARCHITECTURE
Can Art Save Your Life?: On Revolution, Political Prisoners, Climate Activism, and Pink FloydAnna Levett muses on the revolutionary potential of art....ANNA LEVETTART & ARCHITECTURE
Touching Frieze Los Angeles 2023 [VIDEO]Michael Kurcfeld attends the Frieze Los Angeles 2023 art fair and notices the trends in textile and ceramic art....MICHAEL KURCFELD
Group-Chat Energy of Delusion: On Gabriella Angotti-Jones’s “I Just Wanna Surf”Chloe Watlington reviews Gabriella Angotti-Jones’s “I Just Wanna Surf.”...CHLOE WATLINGTONART & ARCHITECTURE
Sometimes I Am What I Really Am: On Mark Alice Durant’s “Maya Deren”Emma Kemp reviews Mark Alice Durant’s new biography of the enigmatic experimental filmmaker: “Maya Deren: Choreographed for Camera.”...EMMA KEMPART & ARCHITECTURE
The Water’s Edge: On Laura Aguilar’s PhotographyRosa Boshier González on Laura Aguilar’s Los Angeles from The LARB Quarterly, no. 36: “Are you content?”...ROSA BOSHIER GONZÁLEZLARB LITART & ARCHITECTURE
All Hail the Guilty Pleasures: On Ali Liebegott’s “Rooms and Other Feelings”Michelle Tea reflects on the paintings of artist and writer Ali Liebegott in the exhibition “Rooms and Other Feelings.”...MICHELLE TEAART & ARCHITECTUREGENDER & SEXUALITY
To Speak Upon the Ashes: On Peter Sacks’s “Resistance”Isabel Ruehl reviews Peter Sacks’s first solo exhibition, “Resistance,” at the Rose Art Museum....ISABEL RUEHLDECOLONIZE | DEFUND | ABOLISHART & ARCHITECTUREPOETRY
Digging in the Dirt: On Jennifer West’s “Media Archaeology”David Matorin reviews Jennifer West’s debut artist monograph, “Media Archaeology.”...DAVID MATORINNONFICTIONFILMART & ARCHITECTURE
Dashing Expectations: On Malcolm Whyte’s “Gorey Secrets” and Nathalie Tierce’s “Pulling Weeds from a Cactus Garden”Jessica McCort reviews Malcolm Whyte’s “Gorey Secrets: Artistic and Literary Inspirations Behind Divers Books by Edward Gorey” and Nathalie Tierce’s “Pulling Weeds from a Cactus Garden.”...JESSICA MCCORTART & ARCHITECTUREYOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Nada Que Ver: On Julián Cardona and Alice Leora Briggs’s “Abecedario de Juárez”José Luis Benavides reviews “Abecedario de Juárez: An Illustrated Lexicon” by Julián Cardona and Alice Leora Briggs, with translations by Alice L. Driver....JOSÉ LUIS BENAVIDESAROUND THE WORLDNONFICTIONART & ARCHITECTUREHISTORYCULTURAL STUDIES
Robert Houston: “A Photographer Who Shot from the Heart”Patrick A. Howell scans the legacy of the great African American photographer Robert Houston....PATRICK A. HOWELLART & ARCHITECTUREHISTORYBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Epistolary Sisterhood: On “The Letters of Rosemary and Bernadette Mayer 1976–1980”Rose Higham-Stainton pores over “The Letters of Rosemary and Bernadette Mayer 1976–1980.”...ROSE HIGHAM-STAINTONART & ARCHITECTUREBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHYPOETRY
Dreaming New Worlds: A Conversation with Ekow EshunEric Newman interviews Ekow Eshun, curator of “In the Black Fantastic,” a recent speculative arts exhibit at London’s Hayward Gallery and its eponymous companion book from MIT Press....ERIC NEWMANART & ARCHITECTURESF
Super Rich Kids with Nothing but Fake Friends: Nadia Lee Cohen’s Dream of L.A.Porochista Khakpour muses on artist Nadia Lee Cohen's recent creative explorations in Los Angeles....POROCHISTA KHAKPOURLARB LITART & ARCHITECTURE
The Muse as Creator: On Mark Braude’s “Kiki Man Ray”Justin Tyler Clark reviews Mark Braude’s new biography “Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris.”...JUSTIN TYLER CLARKNONFICTIONART & ARCHITECTUREHISTORYBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Modernism’s Midlife Crisis: On Justin Beal’s “Sandfuture”Travis Diehl on Justin Beal’s biography-cum-memoir, “Sandfuture.”...TRAVIS DIEHLART & ARCHITECTUREPOLITICSMEMOIR & ESSAYBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The Bogotá of “Memoria”: Translation and Contemplation 2,600 Meters Closer to the StarsJuan Camilo Velásquez analyzes how Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Memoria” constructs the space of Bogotá....JUAN CAMILO VELÁSQUEZAROUND THE WORLDFILMART & ARCHITECTURE
“There’s No Such Thing as the True Self”: Camilla Taylor’s Art of DeceptionYael Friedman on the slyly brilliant work of L.A.-based artist Camilla Taylor....YAEL FRIEDMANART & ARCHITECTURE
The Making of a ProphetPradeep Niroula lauds Alec Nevala-Lee’s new biography, "Inventor of the Future," which soberly fact-checks Buckminster Fuller’s legend....PRADEEP NIROULAART & ARCHITECTURESCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
All Things Visible and Invisible: On Joseph W. Ho’s “Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China”Kelly McCormick reviews "Developing Mission," the new book by Joseph W. Ho....KELLY MCCORMICKART & ARCHITECTURE
Slave Narrative to Selfie Narrative: Equiano and InstagramKaushik Tekur explores the insights and shortcomings of an insta-film adaptation of “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” (1789)....KAUSHIK TEKURART & ARCHITECTURE
Reanimating Marcel DuchampHauser & Wirth’s “Marcel Duchamp” is a gorgeous and inchoate celebration of an uncategorizable artist....YXTA MAYA MURRAYART & ARCHITECTURE
