Thank you to everyone in the San Francisco Bay Area and Bonn, Germany, who joined us today to discuss The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing.
This book, rooted in the visuals arts, especially lends itself to further reading, viewing, and exploring. Just a few of so many are listed below.
Books:
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle (Turkle's website at MIT)
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World by former US Surgeon General and current US Surgeon General nominee Dr. Vivek Murthy
Films and Videos:
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
We Live in Public (Documentary about Josh Harris)
I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
Artists and Art Online:
Arthur Rimbaud in New York - Photographs by David Wojnarowicz
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper (In the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago)
The Edward Hopper collection at the Whitney Museum (includes photos of the pieces, videos about the art and artist, and recorded talks)
“History Keeps Me Awake at Night” - 2018 exhibition of the work of David Wojnarowicz at the Whitney Museum of American Art
The work of Henry Darger - Includes a virtual tour of his tiny one-room apartment, some of his works
Photography by Nan Goldin - Referenced in the section of the book about AIDS/HIV activism
More from and about Olivia Laing
Laing in conversation about her latest book, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (book link)
2020 interview, “Art Is a Tool for Thinking”
"What Art Can Do in a Crisis" (NPR, 2020)
Laing's upcoming book (scheduled for release this May): Everybody: A Book About Freedom
In March, we turn to Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney.
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