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Big stories emerge from a small showcase at the Morgan centered on the Italian painter's Boy with a Basket of Fruit.
Caravaggio's Boy with a Basket of Fruit in Focus, installation view. Pho…
Striking discordances bring an animated intensity to Robert Aldrich's 1956 tearjerker starring Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson.
Joan Crawford as Millicent "Milly" Wetherby and Cliff Rober…
In the jazz musician's autobiography, an elaborate, dizzying accumulation of memories and moves, tour stories and sonic endurance.
Better Do it Now Before You Die Later, by Sonny Simmons wi…
Confederate statuary takes on new meanings in a history-making show at MOCA and the Brick in LA.
MONUMENTS, installation view. Courtesy the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Brick. Photo: …
Rebecca Zlotowski's film starring Jodie Foster takes the form of a wry murder mystery with a side of mystical melodrama.
Jodie Foster as Lilian Steiner in A Private Life. Courtesy Sony Pict…
Tracy Letts's '90s roadside psychodrama makes its Broadway debut.
Carrie Coon as Agnes White in Bug. © Matthew Murphy.
Bug, written by Tracy Letts, directed by David Cromer, Samuel J. F…
A twentieth-anniversary reissue of The Greatest renews faith in the artist's soul-baring songs.
The Greatest and Redux, by Cat Power,
Domino Recording Company
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Aestheticized violence and fussy formalism in Lav Diaz's new film.
Gael GarcÃa Bernal as Ferdinand Magellan in Magellan. Courtesy Janus Films.
Magellan, written and directed by Lav Diaz…
Art in a time of war: an exhibition of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and collages at 52 Walker.
Nicole Eisenman: STY, installation view. Courtesy 52 Walker.
Nicole Eisenman: STY, 52 Wal…
In Matthew Rice's book-length poem, a portrait of the poet on a factory night shift.
plastic: A Poem, by Matthew Rice,
Soft Skull, 90 pages, $15.95
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In Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest, the tragicomic tale of an artist's unwitting Faustian bargain.
The School of Night, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Martin Aitken, Penguin Press, 503 …
Our annual year-in-art-reviews.
Does arts criticism go viral? Relatively speaking, it does!
Our editors are here with a countdown of 2025's most engrossing, attention-grabbing reviews, f…
We'll be back with a new issue on January 9, 2026!
4Columns mascot Old Saint Sparky and assistant senior editor Bolek wishing you a festive winter break.
We're hunkering down for a mini wi…
A young table-tennis champ careens and crashes through an obstacle course of chaos and catastrophes in Josh Safdie's new film.
Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser in Marty Supreme. Courtesy …
French theory's influences ripple through the development of American art in a show at Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought, installation view. Cou…
A material girl in a material world: hyperfeminine stylings commingle with industrial structures and materials in the artist's exhibition.
Mimosa Echard: Facial, installation view. Courtesy…
A genre-defying collaborative album by the percussionist and the MC exhibits a shared politics of destabilization.
HAYWARDxDÄLEK, by Charles Hayward and Will Brooks (aka MC dälek), Rel…
Skin and limbs, eyes and tongues: a mesmerizing ambivalence shades the artist's monstrous creations enmeshing flesh and tech.
Tishan Hsu: emergence, installation view. Courtesy Lisson Galle…
Only dreamers left alive: the visual pleasures and overreaching ambitions of Bi Gan's latest film.
Jackson Yee as the Deliriant in Resurrection. Courtesy Janus Films.
Resurrection, written…
In the newly reopened museum, a balancing act between extravagant architecture and the institution's historical origins.
From Now: A Collection in Context, installation view. Courtesy Studi…
Idris Robinson's book presents a radical perspective on the role of martyrdom in the next American revolution.
The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer, by Idris Robinson, Semiot…
In thirty-two pieces by Walter Benjamin, a recollection of moments at the confluence of individual memory and collective history.
Berlin Childhood Around 1900, by Walter Benjamin, translate…
In a retrospective series at Anthology Film Archives, the cult-cinema icon's bewitching essence is on full display.
Mary Woronov as Camilla Stone in Sugar Cookies. Courtesy Anthology Film A…
Dreams, visions, and micro-contexts: a new show at the Drawing Center limns the outer reaches of our known world.
Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena, installation view. Courtesy …
Plathies and Swifties unite: Maggie Nelson's latest explores the overlap between the star poet and the pop star.
The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift, by Maggie Nelson,
Graywolf Pr…
