In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and
critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters,
especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first
century. Funny Weather brings together a career's worth of Laing's
writing about art and culture, examining its role in our political and
emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O'Keefe,
interviews Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith, writes love letters to David
Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and explores loneliness and technology, women
and alcohol, sex and the body.
With characteristic originality
and compassion, she celebrates art as a force of resistance and repair,
an antidote to a frightening political time. We're often told art
can't change anything. Laing argues that it can.
It changes how
we see the world. It makes plain inequalities and it offers fertile new
ways of living. 'A warm, thinking, enticing sweep of a book, like
spending the afternoon with your brainiest friend.' - Kate Mosse, author
of The Burning Chambers.
Funny Weather : Art in an Emergency - Olivia Laing
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