Making Art “Bad” Again: Shock, Protest, and Visual Art in the Age of Trump
The problem of obviousness in today’s protest art.
The problem of obviousness in today’s protest art.
Sophie HaigneyNov 16, 2020
Claudia La Rocco looks back on her artistic encounters of 2013 for Art Matters Now.
Claudia La RoccoNov 12, 2020
The writer as photographer and flâneur, tracing the changing cityscape.
Jonah Goldman KayOct 28, 2020
In the newest installation of Art Matters Now, Rahel Aima looks back on Occupy and the rallying cries of 2009.
Rahel AimaOct 22, 2020
Reviewing W. Patrick McCray’s “Making Art Work,” Peter Sachs Collopy argues it can be read as a history of how art became managerial in the 1960s and...
Peter Sachs CollopyOct 22, 2020
Robert Diab on William Deresiewicz’s new book, “The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big...
Robert DiabOct 13, 2020
Susannah Rodríguez Drissi considers Steve Fagin’s video miniseries about trauma, memory, and Batista-era Cuba.
Susannah Rodríguez DrissiOct 1, 2020
Artist Pratchaya Phinthong discusses his sculpture “Spoon,” which is made from disarmed munitions and was featured at SFMOMA in 2019.
Arvind DilawarSep 28, 2020
Dispatches from the childhood archive of one of America’s most iconic painters.
Juliana RothSep 26, 2020
LARB presents the September installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Greil MarcusSep 25, 2020
Bradford Nordeen takes “Queer Communion: Ron Athey,” edited by Amelia Jones and Andy Campbell.
Bradford NordeenSep 24, 2020
On the writings of two major avant-garde dancers and choreographers.
Cassie PackardSep 20, 2020
Adrian Parr speaks with Mark Bradford, an award-winning Los Angeles–based contemporary artist.
Adrian ParrSep 8, 2020
Trump turns traditional America iconography inside out
Diana DePardo-MinskyAug 28, 2020
Gregory McNamee reviews Debi Cornwall's new book, "Necessary Fictions."
Gregory McNameeAug 28, 2020
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
Griselda Pollock looks at "School Photos in Liquid Time," a new book by Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer.
Griselda PollockAug 21, 2020
A modern Renaissance man on his poetry, his paintings, and his views of scientific objectivity.
Elena Karina ByrneAug 20, 2020
From the Dreamland amusement park to the modern disaster movie, New York has always thrived at the edge of catastrophe.
Andy ReischlingAug 9, 2020
A new book explores the ugly underside of the Italian Renaissance.
John T. ScottAug 6, 2020
Geoff Nicholson revisits Palm Springs, courtesy of “Riviera: Photographs of Palm Springs” by John Brian King.
Geoff NicholsonAug 1, 2020
Piper French is captivated by “French Guiana: Memory Traces of the Penal Colony,” a photo-text by Patrick Chamoiseau and Rodolphe Hammadi.
Piper FrenchJul 16, 2020
A reissue of the artist’s incantatory program book from a 1989 exhibition of his work.
Perwana NazifJul 12, 2020
In this era of urban activism, the new LACMA should promote community, not gut it.
Joseph GiovanniniJul 11, 2020