Pioneering multimedia artist, performer, filmmaker, musician, writer, Laurie Anderson turns 75 today
Sam Anderson (no relation!) profiled her last Fall in the New York Times
Michael Andor Brodeur in The Washington Post
Her ongoing show at the Hirschhorn Museum, Washington DC, “The Weather”, (the largest-ever US exhibition of artwork by her), will be up for a few months more, (until August 7)
As the curators note, this exhibit “debuts more than a dozen new artworks, interspersed with select key works, including “Habeas Corpus“(2015), from throughout her five-decade career” (and showcases) “the artist’s boundless creative storytelling process, featuring her work in video, performance, installation, painting, and other media.”
Laurie at the Museum, speaking on process – here
More activities related to the exhibit – see here
Don’t miss, in particular, this – “I Have Something To Say” – Advocating for Human Rights Through Artmaking” (Mohammed el Gharani‘s astonishing testimony)
and this – “Songs From the Bardo”
Check out also this, “Laurie Anderson’s Buddhism – Art, Meditation, and Death as Adventure”
and this
The Art of Falling, her most recent solo work, addresses “the complex questions of our shifting world”. “Incorporating songs, electronics and visual imagery, (it) is a masterful mix of stories about falling in love, falling asleep and falling in line”
Laurie is interviewed and comments on that and other matters, this past February, while in Ireland, for the Irish Times
O Superwoman – that was the title of her Hirschhorn talk last March with Afghan artist, Rada Akbar
Here’s Lou Reed, her much-missed partner, on the extraordinariness of his extraordinary wife
Happy 75th Birthday, Laurie!