Laurie Anderson is on the latest episode of Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud. She joined Freud at the Tribeca Festival in June to talk about courage, Lou Reed, Sigmund Freud, and more. You can hear their conversation here.

Congratulations to Laurie Anderson, who has been named the 2026 Kyoto Prize laureate in Arts and Philosophy. The Kyoto Prize is Japan’s highest private award for global achievement. "Laurie Anderson has demonstrated her interdisciplinary creativity beyond the boundaries of music, visual art, and film through her innovative use of technology, combining ingenuity, and wit," says the citation. "She has established a uniquely experimental yet pop-infused form of multimedia performance by integrating her own narrative voice, body, and electronic media." The prize will be awarded in a ceremony on November 10.

Laurie Anderson and the jazz band Sexmob perform “From the Air” live at Ravenna Festival in 2023 in a new video. Their new triple-LP / double-CD set, Let X=X, released last month on Nonesuch, was recorded live on the 2023 tour and features 23 songs, including “From the Air” and many other favorites from throughout Laurie’s career, performed in new arrangements. They perform at NYC's Central Park for SummerStage on June 26 and just announced new dates for September in Ojai, LA, Santa Cruz, and Chicago.

"Laurie Anderson has a way of holding our lives up to a mirror, reintroducing us to ourselves, in all our ridiculousness and splendor," writes NPR's Tom Huizenga in his introduction to Anderson's new NPR Tiny Desk Concert; "her incantations ... seem more sage-like than ever." She was joined by violist Martha Mooke and multi-instrumentalist Doug Wieselman, a member of the band Sexmob, to perform songs from throughout her career, starting with "Let X=X," from her debut album, Big Science, and the title track to her just-released live album with Sexmob, through music from her latest studio album, Amelia. You can watch it here.

Laurie Anderson with Sexmob's Let X=X is out now. This triple-LP / double-CD set was recorded live during a 2023 tour by Anderson and the jazz band Sexmob—Steven Bernstein on brass, Kenny Wollesen on drums and percussion, Douglas Wieselman on winds and guitar, Briggan Krauss on saxophone and guitar, and Tony Scherr on bass. The album features 23 songs, including many favorites from throughout Anderson’s career, performed in new arrangements—plus one by Lou Reed and Metallica, “Junior Dad.” Their performance of "O Superman," from Anderson’s landmark 1982 album, Big Science, at the Ravenna Festival in 2023, can be seen here. Anderson and Sexmob play more US and international dates this spring and summer.

Laurie Anderson with Sexmob's Let X=X is due May 8, 2026, on Nonesuch Records. This triple-LP / double-CD set was recorded live during a 2023 tour by Anderson and the jazz band Sexmob—Steven Bernstein on brass, Kenny Wollesen on drums and percussion, Douglas Wieselman on winds and guitar, Briggan Krauss on saxophone and guitar, and Tony Scherr on bass. The album features 23 songs, including many favorites from throughout Anderson’s career, performed in new arrangements—plus one by Lou Reed and Metallica, “Junior Dad.” Nonesuch Store orders include an exclusive print autographed by Laurie Anderson, while they last. The title track, from Anderson’s landmark 1982 album, Big Science, along with a visualizer, can be seen and heard here. Anderson and Sexmob play more US and international dates this spring and summer.

"A polymathic, pioneering multimedia artist" is how Flo Dill describes Laurie Anderson, her guest on the latest episode of her NTS podcast Digging with Flo. Anderson joins Dill in the greenhouse for a bit of gardening and a chat. You can watch and hear it here.

Laurie Anderson has announced a series of 2026 European tour dates with the band Sexmob. The Republic of Love tour starts April 5 in Copenhagen, with shows in Helsinki, Brussels, Paris, Zagreb, Harleen, and Munich. This follows performances at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN, in March, and a January show in Reykjavik.

Laurie Anderson stopped by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to visit a favorite object—a 15th–16th century chain mail shirt with inscribed rings—and share memories of the Friday evenings she used to spend at the Museum with her late husband, Lou Reed, in a new video you can watch here.

When Laurie Anderson gave a private concert performance at the deconsecrated Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc Chapel in Paris this past May, ARTE was there to capture the set, which can now be seen here. She is joined by Stewart Hurwood, Lou Reed's longtime guitar technician, for a sound experience created with the late singer's guitars, along with Chris Vatalaro on percussion, Doug Wieselman on guitar and horns, and Martha Mooke on viola. "A truly special moment," says ARTE. "A sensory journey in the company of one of the greatest experimental artists."

Big Ears Festival has announced the lineup for its 2026 edition, taking place in venues throughout downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, March 26–29, 2026, including Laurie Anderson, Mary Halvorson, Robert Plant, Cécile McLorin Salvant, and Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion with Ringdown.

The Philharmonie de Paris has announced its 2025/26 season, including concerts by Cécile McLorin Salvant, Chris Thile, Brad Mehldau & Christian McBride, and Laurie Anderson, and a performance of The Blue Hour.