"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa
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.
Avgi Saketopoulou explores the charged interconnections between racism and sexuality in Jeremy O. Harris’s “Slave Play.”
Lari Pittman speaks to Yxta Maya Murray about his retrospective at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
LARB presents the December installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Kate Durbin discusses typography, worldbuilding, and knowledge clusters with fellow poet Joseph Mosconi.
Shifra Sharlin presents 13 ways of looking at Kazimir Malevich’s “Black Square.”
Sara Scribner explores three lushly illustrated nature books by European authors that describe what nature does when humans aren’t around.
LARB presents a long-lost interview with legendary architect Frank Gehry.
David Shook speaks to artist Ali Silverstein about her exhibition “The Fantastical Reconstruction of the Epine GY7” and her book “Redactions/Rubbings.”
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.
Joseph Giovannini explores the newly redesigned MoMA in New York City.
Constance Valis Hill reviews Bat-Sheva Guez’s hypnotic new dance film.
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