Thirteen Meta-musings Inspired by Leonard Koren’s “Musings of a Curious Aesthete”
Leonard Koren’s musings are more rigorous than most.
Leonard Koren’s musings are more rigorous than most.
Geoff NicholsonFeb 27, 2021
Karen Fang finds hope in Mu Pan’s playfully misanthropic art.
Karen FangFeb 19, 2021
Collisions between the real and imagined world seem inevitable, and it makes sense that artists would be offering new ways to think about this...
Wendy S. WaltersFeb 19, 2021
Rediscovering the lost lithography of Alice Mary Chambers.
Thomas McLeanFeb 13, 2021
A new translation of an enduring classic of late-medieval scholarship.
Birger VanwesenbeeckFeb 7, 2021
On Mark C. Taylor’s “Seeing Silence,” recently released by University of Chicago Press.
Anthony Curtis AdlerJan 31, 2021
Theadora Walsh reviews “Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–1979,” edited by Alex Balgiu and Mónica de la Torre.
Theadora WalshJan 25, 2021
A juicy, jaunty book about Broadway in the 1990s.
Harrison HillJan 23, 2021
Kyle Turner talks to Michael Breslin, Patrick Foley, Ariel Sibert, the creators behind "Circle Jerk."
Kyle TurnerJan 16, 2021
Jill Schary Robinson visits “City of Immortals: Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris,” the recently published book by Carolyn Campbell.
Jill Schary RobinsonJan 15, 2021
LARB presents the January installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusJan 15, 2021
Brad Evans speaks with Isaac Cordal, a Spanish Galician artist whose work involves sculpture and photography in the urban environment.
Brad EvansDec 28, 2020
Spiral Jetty, a spiral earthwork on the Great Salt Lake, Utah, takes its cue from the many spiral forms in nature.
Craig DworkinDec 24, 2020
Janna Ireland discusses her new book of photos of L.A. buildings designed by a major Black architect.
Erin KaplanDec 22, 2020
A lively, handsome new book about the evolution of photographic styles and practices.
George Philip LeBourdaisDec 19, 2020
As I scan headlines meting out the collapse of our institutional structures, I worry that my body is miming what I see.
Paddy JohnsonDec 18, 2020
The author of “Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry” discusses the pleasures of pop art and the trope of motherhood in popular culture.
Naya ClarkDec 16, 2020
James Delbourgo considers the ways we've looked at swimming pools over the years.
James DelbourgoDec 14, 2020
Andrew Russeth reflects on networks of art and artists in 2015 in the most recent essay in Art Matters Now.
Andrew RussethDec 11, 2020
Nadia Davids reflects on the sawed-away bust of Cecil Rhodes in light of confrontations with memorials both in Cape Town and across the world.
Nadia DavidsDec 1, 2020
Sophia Stewart considers the epistolary collaboration of Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby.
Sophia StewartNov 28, 2020
Author portraits in the age of COVID-19.
Alejandro MeterNov 20, 2020
Lillian Avedian examines the campaign of persecution against an outspoken Russian artist and activist.
Lillian AvedianNov 18, 2020
The problem of obviousness in today’s protest art.
Sophie HaigneyNov 16, 2020