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What ever happened to the glue-stick?: a new show chronicles
the past fifty years of zine history.
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, installation view. Courtesy Brooklyn Mus…
In her second memoir, Tracy K. Smith breaks free of the bonds of singularity and finds a radical vision of Black kinship.
To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul, by Tracy K. Smi…
In Andrew Haigh's latest film, close encounters of the
metaphysical"and X-rated"kind.
Andrew Scott as Adam and Paul Mescal as Harry in All of Us Strangers. Courtesy Searchlight Pictures. P…
I spy a kohl-lined eye: Zahra Hankir highlights the
makeup's non-Western lineage.
Eyeliner: A Cultural History, by Zahra Hankir,
Penguin Books, 328 pages, $26
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Over eighty works on view at the Guggenheim present a grand narrative of '60s and '70s Korean avant-garde art.
Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s"1970s, installation view. Pho…
Habeas coitus: Yorgos Lanthimos's new film about a Frankensteinian
lady-baby misses its feminist mark.
Emma Stone as Bella Baxter and and Mark Ruffalo as Duncan Wedderburn in Poor Things. …
In an exhibition of work by the late artist, eerie expanses of
song, sound, and voice.
Lutz Bacher: AYE!, installation view. Courtesy Raven Row. Photo: Anne Tetzlaff.
Lutz Bacher: AYE!, c…
Aphorisms and aesthetics: a new translation reveals the strange stylings of writer, artist, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau.
Secrets of Beauty, by Jean Cocteau, translated by Juliet Powys,
Eris…
An exhibition of work by modern Arab artists whose unclothed subjects reveal an expansive range of traditions and subversions.
Partisans of the Nude: An Arab Art Genre in an Era of Contest,…
The life of cinephile Brian: in Jeremy Cooper's latest novel, a not-really hero finds a sort-of miracle in the pleasures of film-going.
Brian, by Jeremy Cooper, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 180 p…
Architecture with a green agenda: MoMA surveys a half century of sustainably minded built-environment projects.
Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism, installati…
The musician's powerful new album defies categorization with its
subdued quietude.
New Blue Sun, by André 3000, Epic Records
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André 3000's new album, New Blue …
We'll be back with a new issue December 1.
Till then, forget Thanksgiving and enjoy this reading roundup for
Indigenous Peoples' Heritage Month instead!
This long weekend occasions an exc…
Of blooms and biases: a show on early modern plant-medicine books dodges issues of capitalism and colonization.
Seeds of Knowledge: Early Modern Illustrated Herbals, installation view. Cour…
Bradley Cooper conducts a moving new Leonard Bernstein biopic.
Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro. Courtesy Netflix. Photo: Jason McDonald.
Maestro, directed by Bradley Cooper,…
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, but no great men among the modernist painter's favorite things.
Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris, installation view. Courtesy Barnes Foundation.…
A new solo album showcases the irresistible pleasures of the country artist's vocal powers.
Higher, by Chris Stapleton, Mercury Nashville
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Who bore it better? A new show at the Met presents the dueling agendas of the two modernist painters.
Manet/Degas, installation view. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: Anna-Marie …
Cosmic consequences come for all in Mathias Énard's diaristic pastiche.
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild, by Mathias Énard, translated by Frank Wynne, New Directions, 4…
Moleskine Notes on a Scandal: in the latest film by Todd Haynes, one woman's past is another woman's future.
Natalie Portman as Elizabeth Berry and Julianne Moore as Gracie Atherton-Yoo in …
The brunch must go on: the final musical by Stephen Sondheim sends up a group of trapped plutocrats à la Buñuel.
Cast of Here We Are. Photo: Emilio Madrid.
Here We Are, by Stephen So…
Pad thai for the people: forty years of shaking up the space of art.
Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE, installation view. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Kyle Knodell. Pictured: untitled 1990 …
A complete compendium of short fiction showcases the Welsh writer's giddy, mystical way with words.
Collected Stories, by Dylan Thomas, New Directions, 362 pages, $24.95
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Paul B. Preciado mixes Woolf's gender-bending novel with the personal stories of a trans and nonbinary cast to moving and inventive effect.
Ruben Rizza (right) as Orlando in Orlando, My Pol…
In Derrida's lectures, a generously ambiguous approach to thinking about paradox, power, and borders during a time of global emergency.
Hospitality, Volume I, by Jacques Derrida, translated…
