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A show at ISLAA presents the Argentine artist's explorations of invisible structures and systems of control.
Luis Fernando Benedit: Invisible Labyrinths, installation view. Courtesy Institu…
In a posthumous exhibition spanning forty-five years of the LA-based artist's work, a welcoming expanse of socially provocative interventions.
Michael Asher, installation view. Courtesy Art…
A Clean, Well-Lighted Death: Pedro Almodóvar's latest film stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton as two women whose friendship is rekindled in the face of terminal cancer.
Julianne Moor…
Music for nothing and your chill playlists for free: a new book by Liz Pelly on the horror story of Spotify.
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, by Liz …
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We've got music, we've got films, we've got novels, art exhibitions, poetry. Join us in a countdown of our top fifteen…
New issues will resume on January 10, 2025!
4Columns assistant senior editor Bolek and mascot Sparky wishing you a happy new year from their winter friendcation.
We're taking a short holid…
The collision of ready-made poetics and cold bureaucracy raises provocative questions in the artist's new exhibition at Dia Beacon.
Cameron Rowland: Properties, installation view. Courtesy …
Oblique horrors and unsettling vulnerabilities abound in Joshua Oppenheimer's musical film about a wealthy family living in a luxurious bunker during climate apocalypse.
Tim McInnerny as Bu…
Fifty years after her most recent solo exhibition in France, a survey of the artist's commanding oeuvre shows concurrently in eight Paris institutions.
Barbara Chase-Riboud: Quand un nÅ“…
A dazzling compilation of lesser-known songs from UK bhangra scenes, Bollywood music directors, and DJs showcases an impressive fusion of styles and influences.
Naya Beat Volume 2: South As…
RaMell Ross's adaptation of Colson Whitehead's 2019 novel upends popular formal conventions to create a powerful portrait of institutional violence and oppression.
Ethan Herisse as Elwood a…
The late Lebanese author Elias Khoury's trilogy about a Palestinian refugee during and after the Nakba in 1948 explores the entangled relationship between trauma and storytelling.
Children …
In his new show, the artist hybridizes the wonders and terrors of technology with immigrants' journeys past and present.
Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad, installation view. Courtesy the arti…
In the artist's exhibition at the Met, a corrective to the objects and systems of the carceral state.
Jesse Krimes: Corrections, installation view. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art. Phot…
Remember, remember, the eighteenth of November: in Solvej Balle's strange and thrilling septology, an antiquarian bookseller contends with the mystery of having to relive the same day repeat…
Misery's company: Mike Leigh's engrossing new film is a brilliant study of two diametrically opposed sisters.
Ani Nelson as Kayla, Michele Austin as Chantelle, Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Pan…
Hervé Guibert's great-aunts serve as muses and collaborators in a newly translated "photo novel" of disquieting love and beauty.
Suzanne and Louise, by Hervé Guibert, translated by Christ…
In seventy-four poems by Hannah Arendt, a document of the
philosopher's interior life.
What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt,
translated and edited by Samantha Rose Hill and …
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 4C…
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. Courtesy …
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…
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.
Que…
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…
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…
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 McLaughlin…
