Thursday, November 28, 2024

Quality Time with the Family by 4 Columns

New issues resume on December 6! Until then, we’ve put together a list of recommended book and film reviews, specially curated for the holiday weekend. Assistant senior editor Bolek and …

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Thursday, November 21, 2024

Sara Cwynar by Margaret Sundell

Benzes and benzos, images of images: in a two-channel film, the artist explores fantasy, desire, and duplication. Sara Cwynar: Baby Blue Benzo, installation view. Courtesy the artist and 52…

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Queer by Melissa Anderson

In his latest film, Luca Guadagnino presents a sanitized adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s 1985 novel. Daniel Craig as William Lee in Queer. Courtesy A24. Photo: Yannis Drakoulidis. Q…

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King Lear by Rhoda Feng

A production starring and codirected by Kenneth Branagh is thick with Neolithic-fur costumes, but thin on poetic feeling. Kenneth Branagh as King Lear and cast in King Lear. Courtesy the Sh…

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Jasmine Gregory by Beatrice Loayza

The party’s over: glitter, tinsel, and sparkling silver spell out contemporary doom in six new works at MoMA PS1. Jasmine Gregory: Who Wants to Die for Glamour, installation view. Courtes…

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Thursday, November 14, 2024

Selected Amazon Reviews by Brian Dillon

Rage inside the machine: in Kevin Killian’s product reviews of books, films, and sundry items, a poetic project to “queer everything.” Selected Amazon Reviews, by Kevin Killian, Semi…

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Sophia Al-Maria and Lydia Ourahmane by Emily Labarge

Inheritance of things past: a show of object groupings by the collaborators explores the gray areas of UK history. Sophia Al-Maria and Lydia Ourahmane: Grey Unpleasant Land, installation vi…

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Committed by Melissa Anderson

Sheila McLaughlin and Lynne Tillman’s 1984 Frances Farmer biopic gives the actress, who struggled with mental health and involuntary institutionalization, room to breathe. Sheila McLaughl…

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Cantando Bajito by Aruna D’souza

In the final show of a three-part exhibition cycle, the power of solidarity and communal resistance is manifested in works by collectives around the world. Cantando Bajito: Chorus, install…

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Thursday, November 7, 2024

Ka by Harmony Holiday

Trapped between faith and disillusionment, the late rapper’s final album is a viciously gentle and yearning gospel of one. The Thief Next to Jesus, by Ka, Iron Works •   •   �…

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Anything but Simple by Jennifer Krasinski

Visited by heavenly visions, Shaker women made “gift” drawings that functioned as instruments of spiritual inspiration. Anything but Simple: Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic, inst…

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The Ongoing Revolution of Portuguese Cinema by Leo Goldsmith

A MoMA series highlights the capacious tradition of collaboration, hybrid genres, and centering the peripheral in nearly six decades of films from Portugal. Still from Silvestre. Courtesy …

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Forest of Noise by Yasmine Seale

In Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha’s second collection of poetry, a split sensibility of whimsy and agony, wonder and torment. Forest of Noise, by Mosab Abu Toha, Knopf, 75 pages, $22 …

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Thursday, October 31, 2024

In Thrall by Andrew Chan

Jane DeLynn’s newly republished coming-of-age novel set in the pre-Stonewall ’60s is comedic, haunting, and decidedly untidy. In Thrall, by Jane DeLynn, Semiotext(e), 311 pages, $17.95…

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No Other Land by Ania Szremski

An exceptional documentary chronicles the last five years of destruction, violence, and friendship in a community of Palestinian villages in the West Bank. Basel Adra in No Other Land. Cou…

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Tina Girouard by Julia Bryan-Wilson

CARA’s retrospective showcases the late artist’s wide-ranging work, from social practice to Pattern and Decoration. Tina Girouard: SIGN-IN, installation view. Courtesy the Center for Ar…

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Able Noise by Sasha Frere-Jones

Scraps of sound, stoned marching around: the experimental duo’s debut is an inviting blend of chaos and intimacy. High Tide, by Able Noise, World of Echo •   •   • Able No…

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Thursday, October 24, 2024

Christine Kozlov by Alex Kitnick

Self-abnegation, self-cancellation, self-criticality: a new survey of the conceptualist’s work exhibits the art of erasure. Christine Kozlov, installation view. Courtesy American Academy …

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The Secret World by Sukhdev Sandhu

Jeff Preiss and Josiah McElheny’s documentary takes a trippy, slantwise look at gallerist and publisher Christine Burgin’s collection of books by nonconformist and iconoclastic thinkers …

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Even the Forest Hums by Geeta Dayal

From mustache funk to subversive folk, to disco, country, and goth vibes: a double album collects music from ’70s-to-mid-’90s Ukraine. Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 197…

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Toward Joy by Aruna D’souza

The Brooklyn Museum’s American collection gets a makeover inspired by Black feminism. Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art, installation view. Courtesy Brooklyn Museum. Photo: Pau…

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Thursday, October 17, 2024

Mysticism by Brian Dillon

Simon Critchley examines the relationship between storied mystical traditions and the transformative properties of artistic practice. Mysticism, by Simon Critchley, New York Review Books, …

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Anora by Melissa Anderson

In Sean Baker’s latest film, a young exotic dancer from Brighton Beach embarks on a freewheeling odyssey after meeting—and marrying—a Russian party-boy oligarch. Mikey Madison as Ani …

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Andrea Blum by Ania Szremski

The artist’s new exhibition teases the boundaries between captivity and freedom, terror and desire. Andrea Blum: BIOTA, installation view. Courtesy Hunter College Art Galleries. Andrea …

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An Image of My Name Enters America by Liz Brown

A chilling slow-burn of hybrid horrors in five wide-ranging essays by Lucy Ives. An Image of My Name Enters America, by Lucy Ives, Graywolf Press, 301 pages, $20 •   •   • …

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Thursday, October 10, 2024

Love Streams by Melissa Anderson

. . . and love stops, and sustains, and continues in fits and starts, in John Cassavetes’s 1984 comedy-drama starring the director-actor and Gena Rowlands. John Cassavetes as Robert Harm…

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Portraits in Life and Death by Mark Dery

Decadence and decay, freedom and friends: Peter Hujar’s 1976 photo book captures the utopia of dystopia. Portraits in Life and Death, by Peter Hujar, foreword by Benjamin Moser, introduct…

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Steve McQueen by Blair McClendon

Skin in the game: the artist’s new exhibition makes manifest the ghosts of racial trauma and colonial violence. Steve McQueen, installation view. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation. Photo: Don S…

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McNeal by David Cote

It’s hard to tell what’s real in Ayad Akhtar’s play starring Robert Downey Jr. as an alcoholic novelist who turns to AI. Robert Downey Jr. as Jacob McNeal (right) and cast of McNeal. …

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Thursday, October 3, 2024

Monumental Graffiti by Sasha Frere-Jones

Art by and for the people vs. architecture in the service of empire. Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City, by Rafael Schacter, MIT Press, 386 pages, $39.95 …

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The Empusium by Dorota Biczel

The league of extraordinarily misogynistic gentlemen: Olga Tokarczuk’s new novel is a hair-raising horror story of patriarchy and male desire. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story, …

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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
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
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