Joseph Giovannini provides schematics used in his analysis of the Zumthor-LACMA reconstruction proposal.
LACMA: Suicide by Architecture, Schematics
Arts & Culture
Questions in Captivity: Captive State
Lewis Page gives a second look to "Captive State," which was released on March 15 to "brutally lukewarm reviews."
Pop Formalism
“Born in the U.S.A.” is a song of audible rage, but this rage is entirely inseparable from its production, from its angular and glossy trappings.
Tom Lutz, By the Album
Jeffrey Wasserstrom interviews LARB Editor-in-Chief Tom Lutz about travel and its influence on his music.
On The Limits of Cinematic Alchemy
Annabelle Gurwitch on family history, "Green Book," and white savior stories.
Is The Hunger Games the Myth That Defines Our Times?
Frazer Merritt, Dennis Merritt, and Kevin Lu contemplate "The Hunger Games" franchise and the roll of myths in our unstable times.
In Mary Poppins’s Return, Imagination is Just Background Noise
Shane Cashman compares 1964's "Mary Poppins" to 2018's "Mary Poppins Returns," which favors explanation over imagination.
Filtering Out: Instagram and the Dangerous Pull of Nostalgia
Marta Zarzycka examines the impact of ubiquitous, easy-to-use photo filters on our perception of reality.
Unfreedom, Race, and Capitalist Sport in High Flying Bird
Nathan Kalman-Lamb reviews the new Netflix original film "High Flying Bird."
Engaged to a Cinematographer, in a Love Affair with Light
Lauren DePino discusses cinematography and her discovery of the beauty of light.
