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Crisis Makes Weird
Harrison Blackman discusses the aesthetics and politics of Greek cinema’s Weird Wave.
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa
Double Vision [VIDEO]
Michael Kurcfeld interviews Elmgreen & Dragset on the occasion of their new exhibition at Pace Gallery Los Angeles.
Against the Wound
Jake Romm navigates artistic depictions of genocide and religious violence—some illuminating, others devoid of substance—from Renaissance Italy to modern-day Berlin, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
The Lucas Museum and the Question of Narrative Art
Leo Braudy proposes a historical and aesthetic rationale for George Lucas’s Museum of Narrative Art.
The Art of the Ephemeral [VIDEO]
Michael Kurcfeld interviews Luc Tuymans at the Louvre’s Valentin de Boulogne rotunda, where the artist’s murals were recently on display.
Bad Diagrams
Cassandra Seltman on the plumbing paintings of Harry Davies
Virtual Worlds, Future Minds [VIDEO]
Michael Kurcfeld interviews Lawrence Lek about his Frieze London exhibition “Guanyin: Confessions of a Former Carebot.”
Images of the Life That Exists Beyond Everything
Priya Gandhi explores Hilma af Klint’s studies of nature.
Come Back Later When Your Work Isn’t So Human
Yael Friedman looks at a recent book, exhibition, and film on photographer Larry Fink.
Intuitive, Impractical Passions
Dan Nadel on the work of legendary underground cartoonist, artist, and sculptor Michael McMillan.
What Persists, What Remains
Nathan Crompton interviews Andrew Witt about documentary as form and photographing L.A. in an online release from LARB Quarterly no. 45: “Submission.”
It Is Civil War
Conor Williams on the legacy and continued relevance of the activist art collective Gran Fury.
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