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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 of…
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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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 Bl…
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 in Ano…
Simon Critchley examines the relationship between storied mystical traditions and the transformative properties of artistic practice.
Mysticism, by Simon Critchley,
New York Review Books, …
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. Photo:…
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 Sta…
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, introductio…
. . . 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 Harmon…
At the historic house of Hudson River School"founder Thomas Cole, contemporary works by Indigenous artists present alternative
worldviews of landscape and place.
Native Prospects: Indigene…
In Francis Ford Coppola's latest film, a visionary architect with utopian dreams navigates political chaos and conspiracy to
rebuild a declining American city.
Adam Driver as Cesar Catilin…
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, by…
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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In Mati Diop's poetic documentary following the repatriation of artifacts back to Benin, a plurality of African perspectives and an aura of supernatural enchantment.
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A debut New York solo exhibition showcases the artist's
inventiveness and sly humor.
Rachel Martin: Bending the Rules, installation view. Courtesy Hannah Traore Gallery. Photo: Evan Hunter…
The proliferation of binaries offers a new language of possibility in Sally Rooney's latest novel.
Intermezzo, by Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 454 pages, $29
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In the writer's "novel-poem," the movements of memory, mourning, and new beginnings play out against a desert landscape.
Mojave Ghost, by Forrest Gander, New Directions, 78 pages, $15.95
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Stories on the verge of a ponderous letdown:
Pedro Almodóvar forays into fiction.
The Last Dream, by Pedro Almodóvar, translated by Frank Wynne, HarperVia, 216 pages, $26
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In Aaron Schimberg's latest film, the director playfully upends assumptions about disability and representation.
Renate Reinsve as Ingrid and Sebastian Stan as Edward in A Different Man. Co…
An eclectic and rewarding mix of delightful, unpredictable writing from n+1's second decade.
The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1's Second Decade,
edited by Mark Krotov, Nikil Saval…
In the artist's new show at the Whitney, a convergence of desire and mysticism, the human body and the natural world.
Mark Armijo McKnight: Decreation, installation view. Courtesy the Whitn…
Coralie Fargeat’s new body-horror film starring Demi Moore is short on hits, long on misses . . . and focused on bobbing butts.
Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance. Court…
The artist’s “Girl Group” of sculptures at Storm King burst forth with color, mischief, and intelligence.
Arlene Shechet: Girl Group, installation view. Courtesy the artis…
Agent provocateur without a cause: Rachel Kushner’s latest novel follows an American secret agent with no loyalties and even fewer judgments.
Creation Lake, by Rachel Kushner, Scribne…
Out of a hateful vanishing and an untellable story, m. nourbeSe philip conjures language that gives form to a slave-ship massacre.
Zong! As told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng, by m.…
