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In a show of works by the late artist, an homage to Sun Ra and the liberatory vision of the cosmic divine.
Barkley L. Hendricks: Space is the Place, installation view. Courtesy Estate of Ba…
Unverifiable unverifiable unverifiable: in Ali Smith's new novel, two young siblings navigate the powers and failings of language in a dystopian future.
Gliff, by Ali Smith,
Pantheon Books…
A reflection on the joy and agony of dark truths in the late director's films.
David Lynch in 2007. Courtesy Getty Images. Photo: Larry Armstrong.
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Inventiveness and invocation in the Brooklyn rapper's thirteenth album.
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Don't be a clown, don't be a clone either. "MIKE
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Caleb Femi's joyous poetry documents chaos and community at a legendary house party in South London.
The Wickedest, by Caleb Femi,
MCD, 84 pages, $18
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Honesty and horniness"the best policies:
a sex memoir by Edmund White.
The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir, by Edmund White,
Bloomsbury, 224 pages, $27.99
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A show at the Fondazione Prada in Milan renders visceral
the pleasures of pure percussion.
Meriem Bennani: For My Best Family, installation view. Courtesy Fondazione Prada. Photo: Delfino …
Domestic misery loves spectral company in
Steven Soderbergh's new thriller.
Callina Liang as Chloe in Presence. Courtesy Neon.
Presence, directed by Steven Soderbergh,
now in theaters
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From object modification to body modification, a revelatory show of the late artist's work exhibits consumer culture gone wild.
Pippa Garner: Misc. Pippa, installation view. Courtesy Matthe…
A kaleidoscope of media-dances and moving-image installations capture over fifty years of radiant, immersive, and collaborative works.
Charles Atlas: About Time, installation view. Courtesy…
To go gentle"and not so gentle"into that good night: two emotionally explosive films by Michael Roemer present unsparing
portrayals of illness and death.
Reverend Bryant in Dying. Courtesy…
Unnamed narrator, unnamed menace: a new translation of the powerfully unsettling 1969 novel by Argentine writer Antonio Di Benedetto.
The Suicides, by Antonio Di Benedetto, translated by Es…
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…
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4Columns assistant senior editor Bolek and mascot Sparky wishing you a happy new year from their winter friendcation.
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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…
