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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Nadah El Shazly by Geeta Dayal

The Egyptian composer and vocalist reshaping Cairo’s experimental music scene. Les damnés ne pleurent pas, by Nadah El Shazly, Asadun Alay Records •   •   • One could ar…

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The Effect by Rhoda Feng

Side effects may vary: in Lucy Prebble’s play, love and romance go head-to-head with an experimental antidepressant. Paapa Essiedu as Tristan and Taylor Russell as Connie in The Effect. C…

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Thursday, March 14, 2024

Raven Chacon by Johanna Fateman

The Diné artist expands on sound and embodiment in the space between point and counterpoint. Raven Chacon: A Worm’s Eye View from a Bird’s Beak, installation view. Courte…

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Ariana Grande by Andrew Chan

In her latest album, Eternal Sunshine, the pop artist reveals a mind far from spotless. Eternal Sunshine, by Ariana Grande, Republic •   •   • …

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Alexey Brodovitch by Margaret Sundell

A new show highlights the celebrated art director’s innovations in photography and design during his mid-century reign at Harper’s Bazaar. Alexey Brodovitch: Astonish Me, instal…

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Night in the Garden of Love by Yusef Komunyakaa

An expansive multidisciplinary exhibition by Shezad Dawood, inspired by the late jazz composer Yusef Lateef’s 1988 novella. Shezad Dawood: Night in the Garden of Love, installation vi…

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Thursday, March 7, 2024

Steffani Jemison by Aruna D’souza

The artist’s new exhibition explores freedom, confinement, and flight in the Black imaginary. Steffani Jemison: Bound, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali. Phot…

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The Extinction of Irena Rey by Ania Szremski

Of mushrooms and mayhem: In Jennifer Croft’s novel, eight translators who work in eight different languages gather in their author’s rural home . . . what could possibly go wrong…

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Love Lies Bleeding by Melissa Anderson

Roid-raging against the machine: lez lovers embark on a path of vengeance in Rose Glass’s second film. Katy O’Brian as Jackie and Kristen Stewart as Lou in Love Lies Bleeding. C…

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Modern Poetry by Brian Dillon

In Diane Seuss’s sixth collection, a cobbling together of forms and forbears. Modern Poetry: Poems, by Diane Seuss, Graywolf Press, 112 pages, $26 •   •  …

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Ghost Pains by Jack Hanson

In Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s third book, stories filled with the dreadful promises of pleasure and malaise. Ghost Pains, by Jessi Jezewska Stevens, And Other Stories, 188 pages, $19.9…

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My Heavenly Favorite by Megan Milks

Taking a disturbing page from Humbert Humbert, the narrator of Lucas Rijneveld’s second novel pens a tortured, hallucinatory love letter to the fourteen-year-old object of his obsessio…

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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