Thursday, May 16, 2024

Steve Albini by Sasha Frere-Jones

In remembrance of the sound and voice of the indelible musician and recording engineer. Steve Albini, backstage, New York City, 1985. Photo: Gail Butensky. 1962–2024 •   •   …

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Sonia Delaunay by Leslie Camhi

Nearly two hundred works across textiles, mosaics, paintings, graphic design, and other media showcase the expansiveness of the artist’s creative energy. Sonia Delaunay: Living Art, inst…

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Hiroshi Shimizu by Andrew Chan

In a two-part retrospective of the director’s oeuvre, the 1956 tragic romance Sound in the Mist is a powerful standout. Ken Uehara as Kazuhiko Onuma and Michiyo Kogure as Tsuruko in Sound…

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A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Jeremy Lybarger

Pedro Lemebel wields a sharp tongue and stylistic excess in crónicas that are both reckoning and reclamation. A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays, by Pedro Lemebel, translated…

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Thursday, May 9, 2024

Extraterrestrial Languages by Brian Dillon

Earth to E.T. . . . ? Daniel Oberhaus’s book investigates the history of human efforts to communicate with alien intelligence. Extraterrestrial Languages, Daniel Oberhaus, MIT Press, 252…

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Joan Jonas by Johanna Fateman

A stunning retrospective at MoMA holds a mirror to the artist’s career-long focus on performance, movement, and landscape. Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning, installation view. Courtesy…

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All Fours by Julie Phillips

Marriage, motherhood, menopause, masturbation, and a motel: a new novel by Miranda July. All Fours, by Miranda July, Riverhead, 326 pages, $29 •   •   • Waifish and awkward,…

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A Prince by Nicholas Elliott

In Pierre Creton’s latest film, a delightfully unpredictable tale of couplings and throuplings in rural northwest France. Antoine Pirotte as young Pierre-Joseph in A Prince. Courtesy Stra…

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Thursday, May 2, 2024

Travels Over Feeling by Sasha Frere-Jones

A new book captures the vibes of visionary composer and cellist Arthur Russell. Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, A Life, by Richard King, Anthology Editions, 296 pages, $50 •  …

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Black Meme by Aria Dean

Legacy Russell traces the history of black representation in mainstream media and its leadup to 2010s black internet. Black Meme: A History of the Images That Make Us, by Legacy Russell, Ve…

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Americans in Paris by Aruna D’souza

Over one hundred works by expat artists who sought an escape from stateside restrictiveness in postwar France. Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962, installati…

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I Saw the TV Glow by Ed Halter

In Jane Schoenbrun’s new puzzle of a film, deconstructed horror meets ’90s coming-of-age queer narrative. Ian Foreman as Young Owen in I Saw the TV Glow. Courtesy A24. Photo: Spencer Pa…

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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Uncharted Territories by Sukhdev Sandhu

A series focusing on black British filmmakers reflects the clamor and unrest of the ’60s to ’80s. Still from Blood Ah Go Run. Courtesy the Brooklyn Academy of Music. “Uncharted Terr…

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Nancy Brooks Brody by Julia Bryan-Wilson

Seven works by the late artist invite deceleration and contemplative witnessing. Nancy Brooks Brody: Ode, installation view. Courtesy Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. Nancy Brooks Brody: O…

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Evil Does Not Exist by Leo Goldsmith

Against a strikingly mercurial score, something wayward this way comes in the latest film by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. Hitoshi Omika as Takumi in Evil Does Not Exist. Courtesy Cinetic Media. Evi…

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Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Albert Mobilio

Danielle Dutton’s new genre-defying collection is a garden of earthly delights, losses, and discursions. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other, by Danielle Dutton, Coffee House Press, 169 pages, …

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Yto Barrada by Emily Labarge

From botany and textiles to abstraction and corporate rejection, the artist’s show presents a playful and processual approach. Yto Barrada: Bite the Hand, installation view. Courtesy Pace…

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The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed by Beatrice Loayza

Edgelord provocations and shockingly average nakedness, brought to you by Joanna Arnow. Joanna Arnow as Ann and Scott Cohen as Allen in The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Pa…

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Tenderloin by Ania Szremski

There once was a young man who dreamed of becoming a master butcher . . . Tenderloin, by Joy Sorman, translated by Lara Vergnaud, Restless Books, 165 pages, $18 •   •   • …

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Flowers of Evil by Mark Dery

Of blood and beauty: a rerelease of Baudelaire’s 1857 collection, translated by George Dillon and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Flowers of Evil, by Charles Baudelaire, translated by George Dil…

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Thursday, April 11, 2024

Beyoncé by Harmony Holiday

In Cowboy Carter, the Queen Bey presiding over the end of empire is also preparing for the next new thing. Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé, Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records •   �…

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The Girl on a Motorcycle by Melissa Anderson

A strikingly incompatible Marianne Faithfull and Alain Delon star in Jack Cardiff’s fascinating and bizarre biker film from 1968. Marianne Faithfull as Rebecca in The Girl on a Motorcycle…

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A Revolver to Carry at Night by Brian Dillon

Memories, speak: in a novel by Monika Zgustova, the story of Véra and Vladimir Nabokov’s marriage, and the fallout of an early affair, is triangulated through a prism of perspectives. A …

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Wolf Vostell by Ed Halter

In the German artist’s works confronting historical violence, a serious side to the Fluxus movement. Wolf Vostell: Dé-coll/age Is Your Life, installation view. Courtesy Harvard Art Museu…

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Thursday, April 4, 2024

We Loved It All by Michelle Orange

A climate-crisis anti-memoir by novelist Lydia Millet makes a case for humility before nature. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life, by Lydia Millet, W. W. Norton, 254 pages, $27.99 •  …

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Whitney Biennial 2024 by Johanna Fateman

Not all is quiet on the American-art front. Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, installation view. Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art. Photo: Ron Amstutz. Pictured,…

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The Beast by Melissa Anderson

Back to the fear of the future: in Bertrand Bonello’s time-skipping film, the tragedies of love and fate can never be left behind. George MacKay as Louis Lewanski and Léa Seydoux as Gabr…

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Stubble Archipelago by Tobi Haslett

In his new poetry collection, Wayne Koestenbaum animates the everyday with the forces of theory, stylized futility, and an aestheticist’s will. Stubble Archipelago, by Wayne Koestenbaum, …

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Thursday, March 28, 2024

We’re off on a Spring Fling by 4 Columns

4Columns is spring-flinging this week, but we’ll be back with a new issue on Friday, April 5! 4Columns assistant senior editor Bolek and mascot Sparky are taking a week off for some fun i…

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

Notice by Sasha Frere-Jones

Nothing will prepare you for this dark, dizzying novel by the late Heather Lewis. Notice, by Heather Lewis, Semiotext(e), 243 pages, $17.95 •   •   • Before Heather Lewis h…

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La Chimera by Michelle Orange

In Alice Rohrwacher’s hauntingly whimsical film, an archaeologist turned grave robber in 1980s Tuscany finds that some losses are buried too deeply to be excavated. Josh O’Connor as Ar…

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards