Yxta Maya Murray is a writer and law professor who teaches at Loyola Law School.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Reanimating Marcel Duchamp
Hauser & Wirth’s “Marcel Duchamp” is a gorgeous and inchoate celebration of an uncategorizable artist....

Melodrama and the Abyss: On María Amparo Escandón’s “L.A. Weather”
Yxta Maya Murray finds a call to action with the melodrama of “L.A. Weather” by María Amparo Escandón....

Are we doing the right thing?*
A poem and painting inspired by a question posed by Robert Walser, by Yxta Maya Murray....

The Art of Captivity: Luchita Hurtado
Illuminating conversations with a major L.A.-based Venezuelan-American female artist....

Love and the Literary Leviathan: On Pola Oloixarac’s “Mona”
Yxta Maya Murray dives into the recent English-language translation of Pola Oloixarac’s “Mona.”...

Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Yxta Maya Murray on Artists’ Responses to 9/11
Reeling from 9/11 but working on projects begun during the Clinton boom, some artists in 2002 were still able to romanticize millenarianism and the future....

“The World Is Chaos, but I’m Not Scared of It”: A Conversation with Lari Pittman
Lari Pittman speaks to Yxta Maya Murray about his retrospective at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles....

Our Memories, Ourselves: On “Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement”
Yxta Maya Murray reviews “Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement,” edited by Shelly Oria....

Youtube Comment #2 to Björk - Sacrifice - Live @ Zénith de Paris, France, March, 8th (08-03-2013)
Art 1, Child 0....

LEAKED NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT BETWEEN [NAME REDACTED] AND [NAME REDACTED] INTERNATIONAL
A piece by Yxta Maya Murray....

Comments on Lindsay Tunkl's Vimeo Posting of 'Is This What Feeling Feels Like? - First Attempt'
This short story appears in the LARB Print Quarterly Journal: No. 16, Art To receive the LARB Quarterly ...

Gentrification
A satirical piece by Yxta Maya Murray about the Boyle Heights artwashing controversy....
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