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Anna Furman

Anna Furman is a writer based in Los Angeles, covering arts and culture

July 2022

  • An image generated by artist Rachel Rossin using Dall-E 2 and the prompt "biotech harpy in field at sunset"

    From ‘Barbies scissoring’ to ‘contorted emotion’: the artists using AI

    Four creators share their Dall-E-generated images – and their hopes and fears about AI in art

February 2020

  • Barbara Kruger installation for Frieze 2020

    'The right has no trouble speaking their rage': artist Barbara Kruger on America in crisis

    The conceptual artist has installed banners, billboards and stickers across Los Angeles for the city’s Frieze art fair

January 2020

  • Anna Wiener: ‘I was always trying to be someone’s girlfriend, sister or mother.’

    'I want this book to be politically useful’: the explosive memoir exposing Silicon Valley

    Unregulated surveillance, ruthless bosses, sexual harassment … after years working at tech startups, Anna Wiener is taking them on in Uncanny Valley

September 2019

  • Re-Creation 1-6-75 from Mapping Archive Images, 2013

    San Quentin prisoners reframe photos to share their stories

    Prisoners have annotated images through the decades – some brutal, some charming – in an exhibition in Berkeley, California

December 2017

  • Ammar al-Beik - Untitled, 2017

    How an exhibition of prayer rugs aims to stand up against Trump's travel ban

    Artists, including Ai Weiwei, have designed 36 rugs that symbolize the importance of migration, stating that ‘borders themselves are a fiction’

November 2017

  • Port of Entry [Anagram (A Pun)], 1998

    Rip it up and start again – Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules review

    The multimedia magpie is the subject of a retrospective at SFMoma that unpacks his layered approach to pop art, photography and ephemera

July 2017

  • Titus Kaphar (American, born 1976). The Jerome Project (My Loss), 2014

    How art is being used to explore America's shameful legacy of lynching

    A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum examines the history of racial persecution in the US while steering clear of explicit violence

May 2017

  • Burning ambition: inside the Boeing 747

    Burning Man's plane art: mile-high ambition or corporate takeoff?

    A reconstructed Boeing 747 is a prominent piece at the festival, but some argue its six-figure budget makes it an egregious extravagance that doesn’t fit the vibe

April 2017

  • Durga Chew-Bose

    The first book interview
    Durga Chew-Bose: 'I don't really believe in writing as catharsis'

    Too Much and Not the Mood is a lyrical collection of essays considering the human heart from many angles. She explains why she writes without a plan

February 2017

  • Beyoncé … ‘an appealing remix of Rococo excesses, Flemish portraiture, and Latin American funerary symbols’.

    Decoding Beyoncé's pregnancy pic: a remix of rococo and Flemish influences

    It references European decadence, religious iconography and Latin American funerary traditions, painting her as a modern symbol of virtue and authority

January 2017

  • nasty women exhibit, knockdown center, queens

    Nasty Women art exhibit aims at taking power back from Trump

    A collection of pieces from more than 700 artists celebrates femininity and strength in the face of adversity

December 2016

  • White Flag #8 by AA Bronson

    Art Basel Miami: how the art fair landscape reflects Trump's America

    The current US climate has led to a racially charged and overtly political range of artworks on display at this year’s show

November 2016

  • Operation for vaginal hysterectomy by Professor Segond at the Salpetriere hospital, Paris.

    Unmentionable review – the Victorian sex manual revisited

    Therese Oneill goes beneath the hoop skirts of Victorian women to reveal the truth about the ignorance and sexual repression that made their lives so difficult

October 2016

  • The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook, edited by Natalie Eve Garrett.

    'Male gaze macarons' feature in the Artists' and Writers' Cookbook

    Published by a Brooklyn bookstore, a collection of recipes and stories from everyone from James Franco to Joyce Carol Oates provides whimsical delight