About this Event
Rizzoli Bookstore is delighted to host Laurie Anderson to celebrate her new monograph, featuring multimedia installations, performances, and recent projects. The conversation will be followed by a signing
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“I’m a musician and my work is made of stories. Whether it’s music, film, performance, or virtual reality, there’s usually a story somewhere, a story from my own life, history, or the great shifting panorama of American culture.” — Laurie Anderson, The Weather and Other Stories
In her most recent monograph, artist Laurie Anderson serves as a guide to two of her most recent major exhibitions: The Weather at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, and Looking into a Mirror Sideways at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
Anderson reveals the creative impulses behind her many iconic pieces and introduces new bodies of work in detail. From the iconic Drum Dance and the violin performance Duets on Ice to her cutting-edge experiments with virtual reality and artificial intelligence, the book explores the many facets of the artist’s work. Anderson writes about major installations like Habeas Corpus, which examines justice through the story of a Guantánamo detainee, and Salute, an animatronic display of red flags symbolizing a nation in upheaval. New works include a project centered on the life and “family lore” of Anderson’s Swedish grandfather, Axel Ephraim Anderson, and Scenes from ARK, a translation of the artist’s three-hour performance work, which centers on “end-times fables, climate, survival strategies, love, American history, and stories from the Bible.”
Richly illustrated and filled with expository and poetic texts, the book offers a close-up look at an artist perpetually curious about the intersection of technology, memory, and the American cultural landscape.
Photo Credit: Wolfgang Tillmans
Laurie Anderson is a writer, director, composer, visual artist, musician, and vocalist whose groundbreaking work spans art, theater, experimental music, and technology. She has created numerous multimedia stage performances, published ten books, and been nominated for five Grammy Awards. Her visual art has been exhibited globally at institutions including the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. In 2021, she delivered the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University, titled Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds. In 2024, she premiered ARK: United States Part 5 at Factory International in Manchester, released her studio album Amelia on Nonesuch Records, and was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as well as the Gold Medal for Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She currently has two installations at Biennale Arte 2026: In MinorKeys in Venice, Italy. Her latest album, Let X=X, was released in May 2026. She was selected as a 2026 Kyoto Prize laureate.
Photo by Christie Harris
Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he taught at Princeton University for thirty-five years. He is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, and Joy in Service on Rue Tagore, a New York Times Notable Book of 2024.
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Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway, New York, United States
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