Art & Architecture

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Sidelights: Searching for the Young Edward Hopper
Dispatches from the childhood archive of one of America’s most iconic painters.
Juliana RothSep 26, 2020
- Art & Architecture
Real Life Rock Top 10: September 2020
LARB presents the September installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusSep 25, 2020
Love Letters in Blood: On “Queer Communion: Ron Athey”
Bradford Nordeen takes “Queer Communion: Ron Athey,” edited by Amelia Jones and Andy Campbell.
Bradford NordeenSep 24, 2020
On Radical Dance: Yvonne Rainer and Simone Forti
On the writings of two major avant-garde dancers and choreographers.
Cassie PackardSep 20, 2020
- Art & Architecture
Histories of Violence: The Inherited Memory of Art
Adrian Parr speaks with Mark Bradford, an award-winning Los Angeles–based contemporary artist.
Adrian ParrSep 8, 2020
Monumental Ignorance: How Donald Trump Misuses Imagery
Trump turns traditional America iconography inside out
Diana DePardo-MinskyAug 28, 2020
- Art & Architecture
- Politics
Village of the Damned
Gregory McNamee reviews Debi Cornwall's new book, "Necessary Fictions."
Gregory McNameeAug 28, 2020
- Art & Architecture
- Politics
A Plea for Isabella
Lucas Barron explores the contradictions inherent in “Columbus’ Last Appeal to Queen Isabella” and its removal from the California State Capitol.
Lucas BarronAug 23, 2020
The Institutional Gaze of the School
Griselda Pollock looks at "School Photos in Liquid Time," a new book by Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer.
Griselda PollockAug 21, 2020
Truth-Maps: A Conversation with Enrique Martínez Celaya
A modern Renaissance man on his poetry, his paintings, and his views of scientific objectivity.
Elena Karina ByrneAug 20, 2020
- Art & Architecture
- Poetry
New York City and the Staging of Disaster
From the Dreamland amusement park to the modern disaster movie, New York has always thrived at the edge of catastrophe.
Andy ReischlingAug 9, 2020
- Art & Architecture
- History
A Darker View of the Renaissance
A new book explores the ugly underside of the Italian Renaissance.
John T. ScottAug 6, 2020