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 Critique: An Interview with Jeremy O. Harris
Christopher Shinn talks to Jeremy O. Harris about his recent plays “‘Daddy’” and “Slave Play.”...
Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Eunsong Kim on the Colonial Inheritance of 2001
Eunsong Kim considers Dread Scott’s "Lockdown" (2000–2004) and Gaye Chan’s "Historic Waikiki" (2001)....
Out of the Glass Case: Museum Heists and Repatriations
Megan Ward looks at the 2018 film “Museo,” starring Gael García Bernal, and contemporary debates around museum repatriation and cultural memory....
The Design Space of Language
“Five Oceans in a Teaspoon,” the new collaboration between poet Dennis J. Bernstein and artist Warren Lehrer, is a masterpiece of poetic visualization....
The Medieval Myth of Notre-Dame
Notre-Dame is being restored — either as a sensationalized jewel of contemporary French architecture or as a monument to the “greatness” of France’s past....
