” published in the Haiku Society of America’s journal

Far removed from universalist and ultimately empty demands for a “global art history

Humboldt überträgt das Gesetz des Meeres auf das Festland

die er literarisch verarbeitete

Funny Weather - Art in an Emergency Hafenschlamm Records ” published in the HaikuIn 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 careers worth of Laings writing about art and culture, examining their role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean Michel Basquiat and Georgia OKeeffe, reads Maggie Nelson and Sally Rooney,