36 stories by "4 Columns"
We're taking a spring-break hiatus, but will be returning on Friday, April 3!
4Columns mascot Sparky and assistant senior editor Bolek are looking forward to taking things bird by bird duri…
No work, no school, no shopping.
4Columns will not publish today in solidarity with the National Shutdown. Our regularly scheduled issue will come out tomorrow, Saturday, January 31.
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…
We'll be back with a new issue on December 5! In the meantime, we're offering up an array of culinarily-inclined reviews to whet your appetite.
4Columns mascot Sparky and assistant senior e…
Come one, come all, come see what we have in store for you this fall!
Anna Boghiguian: The Sunken Boat: A glimpse into past histories, installation view. Courtesy Turner Contemporary. Photo…
Philosophy, case study, biography, fiction: four newly published
page-turners to add to your bookshelf.
As the dog days of summer wind down to an end and we brace for September, four criti…
Songs to sweat by: a roundup of four new music recommendations.
What is the perfect summer album? Based on this week's picks by four 4Columns critics, beauty truly is in the ear of the beho…
A quartet of art recommendations, spanning both sides of the Atlantic.
NO-PHOTO 2025, installation view. Both posters captioned "Photo: Hatem Khaled, Khan Younis, 19 May 2025." Courtesy NO-…
Three movies in which moviemaking itself plays a starring role.
Margot Robbie plays Nellie LaRoy in Babylon. Courtesy Paramount Pictures. Photo: Scott Garfield.
The youngest art form, cine…
For our third summer missive, reviews that center on place and
feelings of home.Â
Stephen Shore, U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon, July 21, 1973, 1973. Chromogenic color print, p…
United we stan this trio of films focusing on activists and revolutionaries.
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart in BPM. Courtesy Céline Nieszawer.
During the first iteration of the Trump kakistocrac…
Ciarán Finlayson and Johanna Fateman at the MANIFESTO! event on March 19, 2025.
On March 19, 2025, a rowdy audience packed into KGB Bar in downtown Manhattan, elbow-to-elbow, knee-to-kne…
4Columns is taking a weeklong hiatus, but we'll be back with new issues starting next Friday, April 4!
4Columns assistant senior editor Bolek and mascot Sparky take Spring Training very ser…
The moment you've been waiting for is here. Drumroll, please . . .Â
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…
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…
Here’s a sneak peek at our lineup for the upcoming season.
4Columns mascot Sparky (im)patiently awaits a new season of arts criticism.
Did you miss us? After a long, hot summer, 4Col…
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? This art’s more lovely . . .
Nicole Eisenman: What Happened, installation view. Photo: Shelby Ragsdale. © MCA Chicago. Pictured, top…
Hot heat, hotter tunes: four capsule reviews of recent releases.
For this week’s summer missive, we’re trying something new: the 4Columns editors have invited critics to pick th…
We’re back with a new issue September 6! Until then, enjoy this archival roundup of reviews that may make you think twice about what’s for dinner . . .
Gunda. Courte…
Three multitalented multitaskers, both camera ready and camera steady.
Edmond O’Brien as Harry and Ida Lupino as Phyllis in The Bigamist. Image courtesy The Filmakers Inc. / Photofest…
In the heat of the sweatiest season, a slew of mystery and suspense books to make your blood run cold.
From Monica, by Daniel Clowes. Courtesy Fantagraphics.
It’s a known fact that w…
Heartache and horror, joy and humor, in a range of vivid, imagination-filled portrayals of Palestinian lives.
Razan AlSalah, Your Father Was Born 100 Years Old, And So Was the Nakba, 2017. …
We’ll return with a new issue on September 6! In our first summer missive, we’re shining a spotlight on a trio of writers who made the leap from the blank page to the silver scre…
