Conversations on Imperfection
A memoir through interviews shines light on the president of CalArts and American history....
Thirteen Meta-musings Inspired by Leonard Koren’s “Musings of a Curious Aesthete”
Leonard Koren’s musings are more rigorous than most....
“I Hate Everything Equally”: Mu Pan’s Ironic Art
Karen Fang finds hope in Mu Pan’s playfully misanthropic art....
Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Wendy S. Walters on Catastrophe, 2020, and the Work of Alan Ruiz and Bahar Behbahani
Collisions between the real and imagined world seem inevitable, and it makes sense that artists would be offering new ways to think about this phenomenon....
Finding a Forgotten Artist
Rediscovering the lost lithography of Alice Mary Chambers....
The Eternal Huizinga
A new translation of an enduring classic of late-medieval scholarship....
Stonewalling Philosophy: Envisioning Silence in an Age of Noise
On Mark C. Taylor’s “Seeing Silence,” recently released by University of Chicago Press....
Endless Constellations: On “Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–1979”
Theadora Walsh reviews “Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–1979,” edited by Alex Balgiu and Mónica de la Torre....
Gritty and Glittery
A juicy, jaunty book about Broadway in the 1990s....
“Circle Jerk” in the Square: An Interview with Michael Breslin, Patrick Foley, and Ariel Sibert
Kyle Turner talks to Michael Breslin, Patrick Foley, Ariel Sibert, the creators behind "Circle Jerk."...
A Galaxy of Monuments
Jill Schary Robinson visits “City of Immortals: Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris,” the recently published book by Carolyn Campbell....
Real Life Rock Top 10: January 2021
LARB presents the January installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
