LUX LITERARY MAGAZINE

SPOTLIGHT: Truisms by Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer is famous for her short statements, formally called ‘truisms’. some are common myths while others are just phrases on random subjects in the form of slogans. 

Last drawing of the summer…

Leopoldo Galluzzo, Discovery of Life on the Moon

Shirley MacLaine - ‘Woman Times Seven’ - 1967

Moon Beom (b. 1955) Possible Worlds #360

Matthew Cox is a Philadelphia-based artist who embraces and joins a variety of media to produce several thematic series of work. Medical x-rays and embroidery, couture and crime, rubber stamps, short -story prose and paint all layer toward a darkly comic and anachronistic impression of the human condition in the twenty-first century. He is represented by Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans.  

Here artist demonstrates the ultimate in science meets art with his embroidered x-ray pieces.

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The Best American Essays 2014 will be released next week. The publisher has also posted a list of the nominations online — we looked through them and picked out ten of the very best:

Joy by Zadie Smith Thanksgiving in Mongolia by Ariel Levy Seeing the Speed of Sound by Rachel Kolb What Lies Beneath by William Langewiesche Forty Thoughts on a Fourth Daughter by Mark Oppenheimer The Old Man at Burning Man by Wells Tower Wildcatting by Susan Elizabeth Shephard The Ghost Writes Back by Amy Boesky The Devil’s Bait By Leslie Jamison Company Man by David Sedaris

A beautiful reflection on time by Liz Danzico. Pair with this fascinating look at how humanity has visualized the chunking of time over the ages. 

Rena reading Zadie Smith, Megha reading Edith Wharton.

Flávia reading Clarice Lispector, Bianca reading Sylvia Plath.

Evan reading Anne Lamott, Aura reading Maarit Verronen.

Sara reading Miranda July, Sheree reading Angela Carter.

Hsiao-Jou reading Fang-Yi Sheu, Heather reading Chris Kraus.

Cauleen reading Gwendolyn Brooks, Molly reading Roseanne Barr.

Sarah reading Zora Neale Hurston, Vicky reading Gloria Fuertes.

Alyssa reading Patti Smith, Yala reading Susan Sontag.

Whitney reading Terry Tempest Williams, Naomi reading Adrian Piper.