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In his audacious directorial debut, comedian and actor John Early stars as an LA ingenue who relapses into bulimia after becoming a
reluctant food influencer.
John Early as Maddie Ralph in…
Claudia Horn’s book about one of capitalism’s greatest critics presents a tantalizing vision of Luxemburg the eco-socialist.
Rosa Luxemburg’s Herbarium: Radical Ecology and the Global…
To have and to withhold: an exhibition of the Cuban artist’s works emphasizes the body’s dynamism even when tied up, gagged,
or otherwise confined.
Rocío García: The Object of Power …
A new volume collects three never-before-translated novellas by Jacqueline Harpman, author of I Who Have Never Known Men.
We Were Forbidden, by Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Ros Schwart…
In Lynne Tillman’s latest collection of art writing, meaning may not arrive, but attention persists.
Paying Attention: Essays on Art and Culture, by Lynne Tillman, edited and with an intr…
A twenty-five-year survey at the Guggenheim illuminates the run-up to the artist’s fluid and gestural steel sculptures.
Carol Bove, installation view. Courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Museu…
Imperfect yet heartfelt performances highlight the improvised nature of Chris Jolly’s 2000 film project, shot using 1960s technology.
Kevin Barnes as Bernard and Jill Carnes as Helen in C…
Crazy, cruel, clueless, all of the above: in his new adaptation of Jean Genet’s play, Kip Williams checks off every box.
Phia Saban as Solange and Lydia Wilson as Claire in The Maids. Cou…
In her new novel about an author researching the Modernist writer, Deborah Levy examines rootlessness and expatriation, partnership and friendship, freedom and devotion to one’s art.
My Y…
Bonding, blending, and a kinship of aesthetics abound in an exhibition of works by the two artists.
David Hammons and Jannis Kounellis, installation view. Courtesy White Cube. © On White W…
On race and retail: Boots Riley’s mile-a-minute film is a wild mix of the heist genre, the ensemble comedy, labor satire, and outright science fiction.
Keke Palmer as Corvette in I Love B…
Antoine Fuqua constructs a biopic as comeback tour starring the King of Pop’s nephew, Jaafar Jackson.
Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in Michael. Courtesy Lionsgate. Photo: Glen Wilson.…
Call her by her new name: in Milagros Mumenthaler’s film about a fashion designer’s mental disintegration, a story of the ruptures between before and after, past and present.
Isabel Aim…
In the late poet Keith Waldrop’s fictional memoir, gentle humor and a powerful afterglow of melancholy and loss.
Light While There Is Light, by Keith Waldrop,
New York Review Books, 201 …
Closer to the heavens: nearly one hundred architectural plans and drawings from a period when attention was directed upward and beyond the stone.
Gothic By Design: The Dawn of Architectural…
MoMA turns the transatlantic Dadaist, prankster, fabricator and reproducer of objects into a proper artist.
Marcel Duchamp, installation view. Courtesy Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Jonathan…
Rising star Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig at her peak deliver impressive performances as a Swiss outsider artist in Liliane de Kermadec’s elliptical 1975 film.
Isabelle Huppert as …
Six short essays by Trevor Paglen on seeing and believing in an era of digital images.
How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI, by Trevor Paglen,
Verso, 176 pages, $24.95
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Works by Asian and British artists created for East India Company agents from 1750 to 1850 exemplify multidirectional influences and
extractive relationships.
Painters, Ports, and Profits:…
Here, there, Middle of Nowhere: the singer embraces the messy in-between on her latest album.
Middle of Nowhere, by Kacey Musgraves,
Lost Highway Records
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In a pop…
Francesc Tosquelles is the hero we need right now.
Tosquelles: Healing Institutions, by Joana Masó with texts by Francesc Tosquelles, translated by Robert Hurley and Mara Faye Lethem, Semi…
The digital-arte-povera style of James N. Kienitz Wilkins’s film renders the jankiness and alienation of the modern workplace.
Tobin (voiced by Jesse Wakeman) in The Misconceived. Courtes…
An exhibition at the Bozar in Brussels traces the origins of the obsession with good looks.
Beauty and Ugliness, installation view. Courtesy the Bozar. © Yannick SAS.
Beauty and Ugliness:…
Talking about men, really: the artist’s new works point to corporations, politicians, and their conspiratorial powers.
Sarah Morris: Snow Leopards and Skyscrapers, installation view. Cour…
Qian Zhongshu’s epic picaresque from 1947 presents a world in which fraudulence and opportunism cast a shadow across all levels of society.
Fortress Besieged, by Qian Zhongshu, translated…
