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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
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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
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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 …
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…
