465 stories from 4columns
In her new memoir, Lucy Sante finds gender euphoria.
I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition, by Lucy Sante, Penguin Press, 226 pages, $27
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Over the past…
Beauty, ugliness, an equalizing gaze: the artist channels the work of poet Wanda Coleman to share her vision of Los Angeles.
Cauleen Smith: The Wanda Coleman Songbook, installation view. Co…
Machismo and melodrama, strange passions and criminal lives"in his adopted home country, the filmmaker was resurrected.
Fernando Soler as QuintÃÂn Guzmán (far left) in The Daughter of …
Walls Have Ears, the band's trailblazing 1985 album, gets
its first official release.
Walls Have Ears, by Sonic Youth, Goofin' Records
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Some memories are just we…
Embodiment, ephemera, and radical causes: works from 1970 to 1990 by over one hundred UK women artists, on display at Tate Britain.
Women In Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970"1990, in…
For those who come to San Francisco . . . David Schickele's docufiction portrayal of a young Nigerian, a city, and an epoch.
Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam as Gabriel and Elaine Featherstone as Alm…
All in the family: a PhD student visits India to film a documentary about queer life in Shayok Misha Chowdhury's vibrant and charming debut play.
Abrar Haque as Choton, Debashis Roy Chowdhu…
Is Anne Carson nice or happy? Right or wrong question?
Wrong Norma, by Anne Carson, New Directions, 191 pages, $17.95
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In May 2017, the New Yorker published a pro…
Before there was Valley Girl, Martha Coolidge's 1975 debut film presented a very different portrayal of high school teens.
Michele Manenti and Martha Coolidge in Not a Pretty Picture. Court…
In the Belgian artist and third-generation Holocaust survivor's transgressive use of Jewish identity, the power is in the puzzlement.
Stéphane Mandelbaum, installation view. Courtesy the D…
Five poetic stories in image and text reveal the ever-present power of nature, greed, friendship, and philosophical inquiry.
Amar Kanwar: The Peacock's Graveyard, installation view. Courtes…
The sound that time forgot: remembering the experimental
musician and filmmaker.
Phill Niblock. Photo: Daniel Efram.
1933"2024
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Twenty-three years ago, I bought…
A centennial showcase of the mid-twentieth-century street photographer's distinctive eye for the intimate, abstract, and impressionistic.
Centennial: Saul Leiter, installation view. Courtes…
Of family and fauna: a young protagonist at the center of Lila Avilés's latest film navigates a day of domestic chaos and festivities.
NaÃÂma SentÃÂes as Sol in Tótem. Courtesy Film…
As above, so below"two installations by the Colombian artist journey between the heavens and the earth.
Delcy Morelos, Cielo terrenal (Earthly Heaven), 2023. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation. Ph…
On violence, liberation, and the collective: a new biography of
Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz.
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, by Adam Shatz, Farrar, Straus and G…
From Modernist grid to subversive textiles, over one hundred works relay an intertwined narrative of painting and pattern, community and identity.
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstr…
Audrey Schulman's new novel tells a profound tale of mind control, misogyny, language learning, and interspecies connections at a 1960s marine research facility.
The Dolphin House, by Audre…
In Chantal Akerman's newly restored 1982 film, lovers unite and separate over the course of one summer night in a series of mysterious vignettes.
Still from Toute une nuit. Courtesy Collect…
Cloudward and onward: the musician finds a newfound steadiness in her latest album.
Cloudward, by Mary Halvorson, Nonesuch Records
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Mary Halvorson's Class of 2019…
4Columns is on holiday break and will be back with a new issue on January 12, 2024! Till then, we look back at our most-read essays of the past year.
Father Time (4Columns assistant senior …
Desolation and devastation"but also pleasures"of the body, in an exhibition of new paintings.
Tracey Emin: Lovers Grave, installation view. Courtesy White Cube. Photo: White Cube (On White …
In a biopic of Enzo Ferrari, Michael Mann focuses on deals, details, and destruction on the racetrack.
Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari in Ferrari. Courtesy Neon. Photo: Lorenzo Sisti.
Ferrari,…
In the photographer's current MoMA exhibition,
a reminder that war is never over.
An-My Lê: Between Two Rivers / Giữa hai giòng sông / Entre deux rivières, installation view…
The rapper's latest album, Pink Friday 2, demonstrates the
jagged wound of moving on.
Pink Friday 2, by Nicki Minaj,
Young Money Entertainment and Republic Records
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