Adapting Your Experience: A Conversation with Zia Anger
Holly Connolly interviews director Zia Anger on “My First Film,” a film-theater hybrid performance on the nature of process, failure, and self-disclosure....
A Sane Man in a Demented Age: On Julian Barnes’s “The Man in the Red Coat”
Richard M. Cho appreciates "The Man in the Red Coat," the new biography of Samuel Jean Pozzi by Julian Barnes....
ART MATTERS NOW—12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Greg Allen Reviews Artists in the Americas in 2005
Greg Allen looks at three artists who exposed their respective experiences within Latin American, immigrant, and US cultures....
LACMA, Part III: The Way Forward
Joseph Giovannini concludes his analysis of Michael Govan’s plans for LACMA....
A Gorgeous Nightmare: On Mark Z. Danielewski’s “The Little Blue Kite”
S. Tremaine Nelson reviews a new children’s book from the author of “House of Leaves.”...
No One Is Nothing: On “Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA’s Graffiti Subculture”
Ryan Gattis reviews Stefano Bloch's new book....
LACMA, Part II: Spamming the Public
Joseph Giovannini continues his analysis of Michael Govan’s plans for LACMA....
LACMA, Part I: Going Rogue
Joseph Giovannini on Michael Govan’s plans for LACMA, which are even worse than you think....
The Wilde Woman and the Sunflower Apostle: Oscar Wilde in the United States
Victoria Dailey looks back at Oscar Wilde’s wild ride through the United States in the early 1880s....
Performance Anxiety
Jacki Apple’s new book gathers three decades of writing about performance art....
Coincidences, Chance, and Champignons
Perwana Nazif reads across the works and correspondences of John Cage and Merce Cunningham....
The Word as Image: On “How to Read Islamic Calligraphy”
Emily Neumeier reviews "How to Read Islamic Calligraphy," a recent book from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and curator Maryam D. Ekhtiar....
