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Laurie Anderson

March 2024

  • Baleen Moondjan runs at Glenelg beach until 2 March.

    Adelaide festival 2024: giant whalebones pierce the sunset for ‘transformative’ opening night

    The ambitious opening statement is taking over the city’s most popular beach, ahead of a festival that marries big names with moving stories of Country

February 2024

  • Laurie Anderson

    Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed: ‘I’m totally, 100%, sadly addicted’

  • A woman plays a violin.

    Laurie Anderson ends German professorship after criticism of Palestine support

September 2022

  • Velvet Underground At The Delmonico Hotel<br>Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground performs on stage at the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry annual dinner, The Delmonico Hotel, New York, 13th January 1966. (Photo by Adam itchie/Redferns)

    Laurie Anderson on Lou Reed’s lost demo tape: ‘He really wasn’t that interested in his past’

    While sorting through her husband’s belongings, Anderson found a remarkable recording from 1965 that reveals the influence of Dylan, the seeds of the Velvet Underground – and a surprising sense of humour

June 2022

  • Lou Reed performing with the Velvet Underground in 1966.

    Lou Reed’s earliest Velvet Underground demos unearthed for reissue

    Recordings from May 1965 were sealed for nearly 50 years, and reveal folk-like renditions of songs including I’m Waiting for the Man and Heroin

June 2021

  • Musicians Laurie Anderson, left, and Róisín Murphy.

    ‘We’re trying to sneak into people’s minds and hearts’: Laurie Anderson meets Róisín Murphy

    The musicians – and mutual fans – get together virtually to discuss their influences, post-pandemic performance and Anderson’s groundbreaking O Superman 40 years on.

April 2021

  • A LIFE IN WAVES, Suzanne Ciani, 2017. ©Gunpowder &amp; Sky/courtesy Everett Collection<br>KCB1YR A LIFE IN WAVES, Suzanne Ciani, 2017. ©Gunpowder &amp; Sky/courtesy Everett Collection

    Sisters With Transistors review – a gloriously geeky music doc

    Laurie Anderson narrates this fascinating film about the female pioneers of electronic music
  • Turned down Hitchcock … Clara Rockmore, virtuoso of the theremin

    Sisters With Transistors: inside the fascinating film about electronic music’s forgotten pioneers

    They turned drawings into symphonies and made black boxes sing. Why were they never given their due? The maker of a new film, full of revealing archive footage, aims to put this right
  • ‘A refugee from within America’ … Anderson in the early 80s.

    ‘It has never been more pertinent’ – Margaret Atwood on the chilling genius of Laurie Anderson’s Big Science

    The seminal album, with its extraordinary hit single O Superman, was unlike anything the writer had ever heard. As Big Science returns, Atwood pays tribute to its prophetic dissection of 80s America

August 2020

  • Jeff Koons's design for The Flag Project

    The Flag Project: New York artists reimagine city banner – in pictures

    A public art installation, entitled The Flag Project, at the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan is showcasing 193 flags designed by the public and a range of artists, including Hank Willis Thomas, Jeff Koons and Marina Abramović

July 2020

  • Anish Kapoor before his Sky Mirror sculpture at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, where he has a new exhibition.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Anish Kapoor shines in Norfolk and a load of men are dismantled – the week in art

    The Photographers Gallery reopens post-lockdown with portraits of humour and humanity, masculinity is on show at the Barbican, and Grayson Perry’s pots are back in Bath

May 2020

  • Laurie Anderson in 1982. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)

    Listener's digest
    Laurie Anderson: where to start in her back catalogue

    Our Listener’s Digest series continues with the unlikely major-label star and electronic music pioneer who emerged from the New York art world

June 2019

  • Laurie Anderson at The Factory, Manchester

    Laurie Anderson: 'It's a great time to be creating new realities'

    The avant-garde pioneer’s virtual-reality installation To the Moon is coming to Manchester international festival

December 2018

  • Intriguing fusions … Poliça, Lubomyr Melnyk, Laurie Anderson.

    Best culture 2018
    Life, death and cosmic jazz: 2018's best contemporary classical albums

    From Jóhann Jóhannsson to Laurie Anderson, via Poliça and Nils Frahm, musicians of all ages contributed vital music to the genre

June 2018

  • Clockwise from top left, Fatoumata Diawara, Kacey Musgraves, Sophie, Migos and Arctic Monkeys.

    Best albums of 2018 so far

    Lily Allen dished on her divorce, Arctic Monkeys found their inner crooners, Cardi B earned her stripes, Pusha T teamed up with Kanye West and the Vaccines made an unexpected classic

April 2018

  • Alice Glass, Laurie Anderson and St Vincent

    Dark Mofo 2018 lineup: Laurie Anderson, St Vincent and a festival of 'dangerous thoughts'

    After bringing death threats to its curators last year, the Hobart festival returns in June with an expanded program

March 2018

  • Audrey Niffenegger

    On my radar
    On my radar: Audrey Niffenegger’s cultural highlights

  • ‘We are the wisps of rulers and the jokers of kings’... Lou Reed.

    'We are the people who are desperate beyond emotion': Lou Reed's lost poetry to be published

February 2018

  • 'Heart Of A Dog' Screening<br>MILAN, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 11: Laurie Anderson at photocall at 'Heart Of A Dog' Screening at Teatro Parenti on September 11, 2016 in Milan, Italy (Photo by Francesco Prandoni/Getty Images)

    Contemporary album of the month - Laurie Anderson/Kronos Quartet: Landfall

    The composer’s song cycle on the 2015 storm that devastated New York has the power to make us shiver with empathy. Plus the verdict on other contemporary music releases this month

January 2018

  • Laurie Anderson

    On my radar
    On my radar: Laurie Anderson’s cultural highlights

    The artist, composer and film-maker on her favourite New York restaurant, the restorative power of Central Park, and the courage of rappers in addressing the current political crisis
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