Thursday, March 27, 2025

We’re taking a break for Spring Training! by 4 Columns

4Columns is taking a weeklong hiatus, but we’ll be back with new issues starting next Friday, April 4! 4Columns assistant senior editor Bolek and mascot Sparky take Spring Training very s…

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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Arvo Pärt by Geeta Dayal

On the occasion of the Estonian composer’s ninetieth birthday, a new album collects recordings of four of his most famous works. Silentium, by Arvo Pärt, Mississippi Records •   �…

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American Job by Aruna D’souza

An exhibition at ICP tells the people’s history of US labor from 1940 to 2011. American Job: 1940–2011, installation view. Courtesy International Center of Photography. American Job: …

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Thrilled to Death by Brian Dillon

Amid the twisted humor of Lynne Tillman’s short stories, an incomparable chronicling of human relations. Thrilled to Death, by Lynne Tillman, Soft Skull, 304 pages, $27 •   •  …

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Black Bag by Melissa Anderson

Sex, lie detectors, and national security: in Steven Soderbergh’s latest, the intrigue of espionage is matched by the mysteries of marriage. Michael Fassbender as George Woodhouse in Blac…

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Thursday, March 13, 2025

A Streetcar Named Desire by David Cote

Danger comes knocking anew in Rebecca Frecknall’s searing revival of Tennessee Williams’s tragic play, starring Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran. Patsy Ferran as Blanche DuBois and Paul Mes…

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Run the Song by Sasha Frere-Jones

Sounds to run by: in his fifth book, Ben Ratliff triangulates the rhythms of music, the mind, and the moving body. Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening, by Ben Ratliff, Grayw…

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Linder by Emily Labarge

A retrospective at London’s Hayward Gallery charts half a century of darkly humorous work by the punk-feminist artist. Linder: Danger Came Smiling, installation view. Courtesy the artist …

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Misericordia by Melissa Anderson

Humor and humiliation, violence and vulnerability: the chaos of thwarted eros knows no bounds in Alain Guiraudie’s latest. Félix Kysyl as Jérémie and Jean-Baptiste Durand as Vincent in…

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Thursday, March 6, 2025

Luminous by Laura McLean-Ferris

Silvia Park’s cyberpunk-noir novel reenvisions love and relationships in a futuristic unified Korea. Luminous, by Silvia Park, Simon & Schuster, 388 pages, $29.99 •   •   …

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Who by Fire by Nick Pinkerton

Isolation, frustration, flirtation, friction, friendship: Philippe Lesage’s latest film is a subtle study of the playing out of power dynamics during a Quebec wilderness vacation. Cast in…

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Caspar David Friedrich by Mark Dery

Finding symbolism and the self in the landscapes of nature: seventy-five works by the preeminent painter of German Romanticism. Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature, installation view…

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Julius Eastman & Glenn Ligon by James Hannaham

52 Walker’s cross-generational pairing of the composer and the visual artist defies easy interpretations. Julius Eastman & Glenn Ligon: Evil Nigger, installation view. Courtesy 52 Wa…

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Thursday, February 27, 2025

John Zorn by Jennifer Krasinski

A new show of drawings, notebooks, and scores by the avant-garde composer reveals the private practices and processes of over fifty years of genre-defying works. John Zorn: Hermetic Cartog…

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Earthlight by Melissa Anderson

For the man from nowhere, leaving is best: a young Parisian sojourns to Tunisia, where he was born, and finds few answers in Guy Gilles’s beguiling 1970 film. Patrick Jouané as Pierre in…

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Drake by Harmony Holiday

Angst, check. Complaints, check. Perfectly listenable slow jams, check. Guaranteed obsolescence, check. $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, by Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR, OVO Sound, Santa Anna, Republic Rec…

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Airless Spaces by Julie Phillips

In her 1998 book, Shulamith Firestone, author of the classic feminist text The Dialectic of Sex, chronicles mental illness and institutionalization with dark humor. Airless Spaces, by Shul…

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Thursday, February 20, 2025

Bye Bye I Love You by Brian Dillon

You say hello, I say goodbye: Michael Erard’s new study explores the range of meanings of first and final words. Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words, by Michael Erar…

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Compensation by Melissa Anderson

In 1900s and 1990s Chicago, parallel romances play out between two Black Chicagoans, one Deaf and one hearing. John Earl Jelks as Arthur Jones and Michelle A. Banks as Malindy Brown in Comp…

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Fred Lonidier by Alex Kitnick

Nearly a quarter century after exhibiting in a traveling tractor trailer, the artist’s agitprop arrives in New York. Fred Lonidier: N.A.F.T.A. (Not A Fair Trade for All), installation vie…

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Irving Penn: Kinship by Margaret Sundell

An exhibition locates the echoing visual schema found throughout the photographer’s seventy-year career. Irving Penn: Kinship, installation view. Courtesy Pace Gallery. Pictured, center, …

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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Sun City by Ania Szremski

In Tove Jansson’s newly reissued novel set in a Florida retirement home, old age is not wasted on the elderly. Sun City, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal, New York Review Books,…

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Universal Language by Moze Halperin

Nationalism gives way to interhuman solidarity in the dreamy, generous world of Matthew Rankin’s latest film. Still from Universal Language. Courtesy Oscilloscope Laboratories. Universal…

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Boris Mikhailov by Albert Mobilio

Blue is the color of the blockade, hunger, and war: eerie portraits of everyday street life in late twentieth-century Ukraine. Boris Mikhailov: Refracted Times, installation view. Courtesy …

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American Artist by Aruna D’souza

Placemaking and escape-making: a show at Pioneer Works explores Black geographies and histories through connections to Octavia Butler’s life and literature. American Artist: Shaper of Go…

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Thursday, February 6, 2025

Gregg Bordowitz: There: a Feeling by Emily Labarge

Attentiveness is an ongoing journey in the artist’s moving exhibition. Gregg Bordowitz: There: a Feeling, installation view. Courtesy Camden Art Centre. Photo: Luke Walker. Pictured, cent…

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The World After Gaza by Sasha Frere-Jones

The mistitling of Pankaj Mishra’s new book. The World After Gaza: A History, by Pankaj Mishra, Penguin Press, 292 pages, $28 •   •   • Israel is death. To say anything el…

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Frederick Wiseman by Andrew Chan

Elegiac and optimistic, misanthropic and humanistic: a retrospective of the documentarian’s extraordinary work spanning over half a century. Still from Near Death. Courtesy Zipporah Films…

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Black in Blues by Hanif Abdurraqib

In Imani Perry’s latest book, a gift of information and interconnectedness. Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, by Imani Perry, Ecco, 243 pages, $28.99 •   �…

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Thursday, January 30, 2025

MIKE by Harmony Holiday

Inventiveness and invocation in the Brooklyn rapper’s thirteenth album. Showbiz!, by MIKE, 10k •   •   • Don’t be a clown, don’t be a clone either. —MIKE Showbiz!…

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David Lynch by Beatrice Loayza

A reflection on the joy and agony of dark truths in the late director’s films. David Lynch in 2007. Courtesy Getty Images. Photo: Larry Armstrong. 1946–2025 •   •   • F…

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre