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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…
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…
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,
Semiotext(…
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
…
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 …
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, installa…
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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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
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Able No…
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 Art, R…
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…
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
…
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: Paula…
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 1971"19…
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 and …
