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....
#consentsowhite: On the Erotics of Slave Play in “Slave Play”
Avgi Saketopoulou explores the charged interconnections between racism and sexuality in Jeremy O. Harris’s “Slave Play.”...
“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....
Real Life Rock Top 10: December 2019
LARB presents the December installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Relevant at a Slant: A Conversation with Joseph Mosconi
Kate Durbin discusses typography, worldbuilding, and knowledge clusters with fellow poet Joseph Mosconi....
Thirteen Ways of Looking at “Black Square”
Shifra Sharlin presents 13 ways of looking at Kazimir Malevich’s “Black Square.”...
Wonder Worlds: Nature Art Books Are Illustrating What We Have to Lose
Sara Scribner explores three lushly illustrated nature books by European authors that describe what nature does when humans aren’t around....
“Making Better Mud Pies”: A Conversation with Frank Gehry
LARB presents a long-lost interview with legendary architect Frank Gehry....
No, You Cannot Have the Whole Truth: A Conversation with Ali Silverstein
David Shook speaks to artist Ali Silverstein about her exhibition “The Fantastical Reconstruction of the Epine GY7” and her book “Redactions/Rubbings.”...
We Are Monsters: On “Inside Killjoy’s Kastle: Dykey Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and Other Lesbian Hauntings”
On “Inside Killjoy’s Kastle,” a look at a lesbian haunted house art project as well as the anti-trans clouds that haunt stereotypes about lesbian identity....
MoMA: Expanded and Refreshed
Joseph Giovannini explores the newly redesigned MoMA in New York City....
Pure Wordless Emotion on Film: “In This Life” at the 2019 Dance on Camera Festival
Constance Valis Hill reviews Bat-Sheva Guez’s hypnotic new dance film....
Open to any author writing in English about the Chicanx/Latinx experience, the Rivera Book Prize is committed to the discovery and fostering of extraordinary writing by a first-time or early career author whose work examines the long and varied contributions of Chicanx/Latinx in the US. The Rivera Book Prize aims to provide a platform that showcases the emerging literary talent of the Chicanx/Latinx community, to cultivate the next generation of Chicanx/Latinx writers, and to continue the rich literary memory of Tomás Rivera, Chicano author, poet, activist, and educator.
Entry Fee: $35. Entry fees are non-refundable.
