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Remembering Peter Nicholls
Looking back at the career of the environmentally-minded Aotearoa New Zealand sculptor....
Art
Metabolizing the Future
In a country ruined by World War, a generation of Japanese visionaries in literature and architecture imagined ways to survive global apocalypse....
The Indirect Acts of History
Michael Osman reviews "Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World" by Keller Easterling....
Comfort and Transience
Micah Cash’s “Waffle House Vistas” blends nostalgia with a kind of eerie dystopianism....
Touching the Impossible: A Conversation with Slava Polunin
The legendary Russian performance artist on the theory and politics of clowning....
The Three Passions of Alexander Petrosyan
Olga Ware speaks to photographer Alexander Petrosyan about his three passions: his art form, St. Petersburg, and people....
Words Pointing to Images
A photographer’s long journey with the American everyday....
The Art of Captivity: Luchita Hurtado
Illuminating conversations with a major L.A.-based Venezuelan-American female artist....
The Traffic in Images
“Art Isn’t Fair” integrates Allan Sekula’s photographic projects with his writings on art....
A Pulse on the Eye: The Art of Helen Frankenthaler
A sparkling new biography of a major female abstract expressionist painter....
The Pleasures of Repose: A New Study of Fragonard
A new study of the paintings and drawings of a celebrated artist of the ancien régime....
Thirteen Meta-musings Inspired by Leonard Koren’s “Musings of a Curious Aesthete”
Leonard Koren’s musings are more rigorous than most....
“I Hate Everything Equally”: Mu Pan’s Ironic Art
Karen Fang finds hope in Mu Pan’s playfully misanthropic art....
Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Wendy S. Walters on Catastrophe, 2020, and the Work of Alan Ruiz and Bahar Behbahani
Collisions between the real and imagined world seem inevitable, and it makes sense that artists would be offering new ways to think about this phenomenon....
Finding a Forgotten Artist
Rediscovering the lost lithography of Alice Mary Chambers....
The Eternal Huizinga
A new translation of an enduring classic of late-medieval scholarship....
Stonewalling Philosophy: Envisioning Silence in an Age of Noise
On Mark C. Taylor’s “Seeing Silence,” recently released by University of Chicago Press....
Endless Constellations: On “Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–1979”
Theadora Walsh reviews “Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–1979,” edited by Alex Balgiu and Mónica de la Torre....
Gritty and Glittery
A juicy, jaunty book about Broadway in the 1990s....
“Circle Jerk” in the Square: An Interview with Michael Breslin, Patrick Foley, and Ariel Sibert
Kyle Turner talks to Michael Breslin, Patrick Foley, Ariel Sibert, the creators behind "Circle Jerk."...
A Galaxy of Monuments
Jill Schary Robinson visits “City of Immortals: Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris,” the recently published book by Carolyn Campbell....
Real Life Rock Top 10: January 2021
LARB presents the January installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Histories of Violence: Look Closer at the World, There You Will See
Brad Evans speaks with Isaac Cordal, a Spanish Galician artist whose work involves sculpture and photography in the urban environment....
Snail
Spiral Jetty, a spiral earthwork on the Great Salt Lake, Utah, takes its cue from the many spiral forms in nature....
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