Thursday, October 16, 2025
In Julio Cortázar’s surrealism, a displacement of the real.
A Certain Lucas, by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa,
New Directions, 121 pages, $15.95
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMKelly Reichardt’s latest film: a bumbling suburban dad, a fumbled art heist, and a portrait of a nation on the decline.
Josh O’Connor as James Blaine Mooney in The Mastermind. Courtesy …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMChris Kraus’s new novel chronicles the crimes and injustices
of rural impoverishment.
The Four Spent the Day Together, by Chris Kraus,
Scribner, 304 pages, $29
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMA series of one-year performances demonstrate the merging of
art time and life time.
Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978–1999, installation view. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation. Photo: Bill Jaco…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, October 9, 2025
In the late writer-director’s works, portraits of headstrong women under the influence of adventurous spirits.
Emmanuelle Devos as Pomme in If You Don’t, I Will. Courtesy L’Alliance N…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMJamie Lloyd’s new production of Samuel Beckett’s play is in danger of punking a classic most heinously.
Alex Winter as Vladimir and Keanu Reeves as Estragon in Waiting for Godot. Courte…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMA collection of three dozen essays examines the intertwined histories of built environments and the scourges they harbor, house, and cause.
Sick Architecture, edited by Beatriz Colomina wit…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMA setup familiar to contemporary fiction and romance ends up defying expectations in the latest novel by Claire-Louise Bennett.
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, by Claire-Louise Bennett,
Riverhead Books…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, October 2, 2025
Absurdities, conspiracies, homegrown fascists: in Thomas Pynchon’s novel set in 1932, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Shadow Ticket, by Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press,…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThe singer’s sixteenth studio album, Here for It All.
Here for It All, by Mariah Carey, Gamma
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Pop superstars, whose talents are so often eroded by the rigors of …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMIn Paul Thomas Anderson’s action-comedy-drama about members of a leftist militant group, tidy ideologies make for a story more
soothing than disquieting.
Leonardo DiCaprio as Bob Ferguso…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMA new retrospective at the Jewish Museum showcases the artist’s commitment to the fight against fascism and oppression.
Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity, installation view. Courtesy the Jewish…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, September 25, 2025
Wateryworld: language and its faults make for a story of amphibolous feelings in the inaugural installment of Jon Fosse’s new trilogy set in a small fishing town.
Vaim, by Jon Fosse, tran…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThe first solo show outside France of the Canadian artist, who died in her early thirties in 1983, presents tantalizing works haunted by an atmosphere of absence and loss.
Alix Cléo Roubau…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMA Rock and a soft place: in Benny Safdie’s biopic, Dwayne Johnson plays UFC champ Mark Kerr as a brawler with a big heart.
Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine. Courtesy A2…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMTess of the suburbanvilles and pills: in Natasha Stagg’s second novel, a woman looks back on her tumultuous early-2000s adolescence.
Grand Rapids, by Natasha Stagg,
Semiotext(e), 221 pag…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, September 18, 2025
A 1979 Linton Kwesi Johnson documentary by Franco Rosso is a portrait of the artist as principled activist.
Linton Kwesi Johnson in Dread Beat an Blood. Courtesy Seventy-Seven.
Dread Beat …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThree decades after they were taken, the artist’s photographs of historical armor take on a terrifying gleam of violent ideology and elitist systems.
Zoe Leonard: Display, installation vi…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMIn two films by Chantal Akerman playing as part of MoMA’s complete retrospective, teenage heroines ramble through city streets
hungering for more.
Pascale Salkin and Maria de Medeiros in…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMA new book by artist Lana Lin drawing from Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas digs into the Asian understory
of Stein’s and Toklas’s writings.
The Autobiography of…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, September 11, 2025
In a new live album, protest music that proves the regenerative power of naming and withholding names.
Saul Williams meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople, by Saul Williams and Car…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThe specters of history and photography haunt thirty-two works in the artist’s first US survey in over twenty years.
Stan Douglas: Ghostlight, installation view. Courtesy Hessel Museum of…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMDag Johan Haugerud’s trilogy concludes with the portrayal of a teenager who writes a manuscript detailing her infatuation with
her high school teacher.
Selome Emnetu as Johanna and Ella …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThrough the works of Kafka, Berger, Sebald, and more, Kate Zambreno’s book reflects on our perceptions of nonhuman animals and
our own animal nature.
Animal Stories, by Kate Zambreno,
T…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, September 4, 2025
Two volumes of the late critic and curator’s writings provide a crucial orienting point from which to expand the horizons of contemporary art.
Okwui Enwezor: Selected Writings, Volume 1: …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThe poet, the political scientist, the historian, the curator,
the cosmopolitan Africanist.
Okwui Enwezor: Selected Writings, Volume 1: Toward a New African Art Discourse and Volume 2: Cur…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMA documentary on the “Nazi directress” by Andres Veiel raises new questions about art, ethics, and judgment.
Leni Riefenstahl during the CBC interview “Leni Riefenstahl in her own wor…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMEpic and anarchic: a trio of installations showcase the artist’s rangy, timeless world-making.
Anna Boghiguian: The Sunken Boat: A glimpse into past histories, installation view. Courtesy…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, August 28, 2025
Come one, come all, come see what we have in store for you this fall!
Anna Boghiguian: The Sunken Boat: A glimpse into past histories, installation view. Courtesy Turner Contemporary. Photo…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, August 21, 2025
Philosophy, case study, biography, fiction: four newly published
page-turners to add to your bookshelf.
As the dog days of summer wind down to an end and we brace for September, four criti…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, August 14, 2025
Songs to sweat by: a roundup of four new music recommendations.
What is the perfect summer album? Based on this week’s picks by four 4Columns critics, beauty truly is in the ear of the be…
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