465 stories from 4columns
Assistant senior editor Bolek wonders if it’s time to reapply the sunscreen.
4Columns is taking a short hiatus to beat the heat, and will return with new issues beginning September 6!…
Passion and pretense: Catherine Breillat’s latest film presents a complex portrait of a woman divided against herself.
Samuel Kircher as Théo and Léa Drucker as Anne in …
A new podcast commemorating the thirty-year anniversary of the musician’s death prompts a closer look at the journals he left behind.
Kurt Cobain during the taping of MTV Unplugged: N…
From family to Flint to factory workers: photography focused on movements of solidarity.
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity, installation view. Courtesy Museum of Modern Art. Phot…
Riotous shows, near-fatal fights, and anti-racism and protest politics: a new book chronicles the influential era of the Specials and 2 Tones Records.
Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tones Record…
A loving mother-daughter bond fumbles tenderly toward rupture in
Annie Baker's debut feature.
Julianne Nicholson as Janet and Zoe Ziegler as Lacy in Janet Planet. Courtesy A24.
Janet Plan…
Two shows on view at Hauser & Wirth Menorca connect to architectural space and landscape"and each other"in surprising ways.
Roni Horn, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Hauser …
A memoir by Francine Prose recounts the writer's tumultuous relationship with Pentagon Papers"whistleblower Tony Russo.
1974: A Personal History, by Francine Prose, Harper, 257 pages, $34
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In Agnieszka Holland's tragic film about the refugee crisis at the Belarus"Poland crossing, a provocation to bear witness and reflect on complicity.
Talia Ajjan as Ghalia and Jalal Altawil …
An endearing and suitably messy biography of the
pioneering punk vocalist.
Infinite Dreams: The Life of Alan Vega, by Laura Davis-Chanin and Liz Lamere, foreword by Bruce Springsteen,
Bac…
Art, fashion, and collaboration run together in a new show of the legendary designer's couture costumes, paintings, and installations.
Susan Cianciolo: Light Workers - RUN 15 - Game of Life…
Mystery and mortality in five major sculptures by the artist.
Eva Hesse: Five Sculptures, installation view. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Matt Grubb. © Estate of Eva Hesse.
Eva H…
In a show of over forty monumental photographs, a reclamation
of agency for the Black body.
Nona Faustine: White Shoes, installation view. Courtesy Brooklyn Museum. Photo: Paula Abreu Pita…
A new book by Annalee Newitz chronicles the use of storytelling as propagandistic tool.
Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind, by Annalee Newitz, W. W. Norton, 24…
In a film by Richard Linklater loosely based on a true story, a philosophy professor finds his calling as a fake professional
killer for police stings.
Glen Powell as Gary Johnson in Hit M…
A stunning retrospective of over two hundred ceramics works, paintings, and textiles by the virtuoso artist.
Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within, installation view. Courtesy the Noguchi Museum. …
Earnest pleasures remain lushly undiminished in Francis Ford Coppola's new Reprise of the 1982 film starring Teri Garr.
Teri Garr as Frannie in One from the Heart. Courtesy Rialto Pictures.…
Dream spaces, blurred faces: a comparative exhibition illuminates the overlap in the portraiture of the two photographers.
Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream I…
In the composer's latest album, a slow-burning mélange of jazz standards, Urdu poetry, and '80s Bollywood pop.
Night Reign, by Arooj Aftab, Verve
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Nightfall occu…
Flora, fauna, fun with form: a new book by Lauren Cook.
Sex Goblin, by Lauren Cook, Nightboat Books, 174 pages, $17.95
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The miffed and determined young aardvark s…
The actress who brought an enigmatic expressiveness to Jacques Rivette's '70s and '80s films about female friendships and alliances.
Bulle Ogier as Pauline/Émilie in Out 1. Courtesy Kin…
The radical visionary who created a psychotherapeutic
collective in Vichy France.
Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut, installation view. Courtesy America…
Riotous color, crisp compositions, and a continued defiance of
figurative-vs.-abstract binaries.
Amy Sillman: To Be Other-Wise, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery…
Pedro Lemebel wields a sharp tongue and stylistic excess in crónicas that are both reckoning and reclamation.
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays, by Pedro Lemebel, translat…
In a two-part retrospective of the director's oeuvre, the 1956 tragic romance Sound in the Mist is a powerful standout.
Ken Uehara as Kazuhiko Onuma and Michiyo Kogure as Tsuruko in Sound i…
