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Larissa Archer

Larissa Archer is a writer and theatre worker based in San Francisco. Her website is www.larissaarcher.com.

Posted inOpinion

Did Judy Chicago Just Troll Us?

by Larissa Archer October 21, 2021October 21, 2021

Nowhere in the museums’ advertising blitzkrieg for the performance were we told to bring our wildfire-season masks as well as our covid masks, and covid masks don’t prevent smoke inhalation.

Posted inArt

The Unsung Heroes of Burning Man Go Unnoticed

by Larissa Archer August 24, 2018August 23, 2018

A host of creative, kind, brave, funny people go unsung in No Spectators, which is centered on a narrow, affluent segment of the Burning Man population.

Posted inArt

John Waters Curates a Show of Low-Tech Art in Silicon Valley

by Larissa Archer May 25, 2016May 26, 2016

SAN FRANCISCO — There’s something deliciously subversive about an old-guard, establishment art gallery mounting an adamantly low-tech, analogue art show that celebrates dysfunction, messiness, and thwarted purpose, and doing it at the vortex of an industry that fetishizes streamlined, enhanced, digitized functionality.

Posted inArt

A Seashell Temple, a Glowflower Tree, and More Art Adventures at Burning Man

by Larissa Archer December 25, 2015December 28, 2015

The ephemeral circumstances of the festival and the disposition (natural, habituated, or chemically enhanced) of so many attendees creates an unusual environment for viewing and engaging with art.

Posted inArt

How Urban Sprawl Created a Homogenous and Hostile World

by Larissa Archer June 2, 2015

LOS ANGELES — The list of ways the US has negatively influenced the rest of the world is long and shameful: unnecessary, interminable wars, nutritionally inane fast-food chains, a habit of wasteful consumption based on instant obsolescence. The list goes on, and one can see why at least some of our exports caught on.

Posted inArt

J.M.W. Turner, the Sublime, and Me

by Larissa Archer May 18, 2015May 21, 2015

LOS ANGELES — “You don’t experience the sublime looking through double glazing, or at a distant electric storm, or watching a sea rage on TV.”

Posted inBooks

The Sibling Rivalry that Shaped Diane Arbus’s Vision

by Larissa Archer March 27, 2015March 27, 2015

In Silent Dialogues, art historian Alexander Nemerov, son of former US Poet Laureate Howard Nemerov and nephew of Diane Arbus, traces his father’s evolving attitudes toward photography and his sister’s work in particular.

Posted inBooks

Mapplethorpe’s Other Man

by Larissa Archer February 24, 2015February 26, 2015

In Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe, Philip Gefter’s new biography of collector, curator, and market force Sam Wagstaff, the author argues that it was not only his subject’s life that was transformed by his relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe.

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