{"product_id":"funny-weather-art-in-an-emergency","title":"Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency","description":"\"One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction\" (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era.\nIn 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.\nFunny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing about art and culture, examining their role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O’Keeffe, reads Maggie Nelson and Sally Rooney, writes love letters to David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and explores loneliness and technology, women and alcohol, sex and the body. With characteristic originality and compassion, she celebrates art as a force of resistance and repair, an antidote to a frightening political time.\nWe’re often told that art can’t change anything. Laing argues that it can. Art changes how we see the world. It makes plain inequalities and it offers fertile new ways of living.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 132400570X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.132400570X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Laing, Olivia\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43231629082685,"sku":"BVV.132400570X.G","price":10.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/132400570X-0.jpg?v=1779743606","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/funny-weather-art-in-an-emergency","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}