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A new book by artist Lana Lin drawing from Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas digs into the Asian understory
of Stein's and Toklas's writings.
The Autobiography of H. La…
In two films by Chantal Akerman playing as part of MoMA's complete retrospective, teenage heroines ramble through city streets
hungering for more.
Pascale Salkin and Maria de Medeiros in J…
Three decades after they were taken, the artist's photographs of historical armor take on a terrifying gleam of violent ideology and elitist systems.
Zoe Leonard: Display, installation view…
A 1979 Linton Kwesi Johnson documentary by Franco Rosso is a portrait of the artist as principled activist.
Linton Kwesi Johnson in Dread Beat an Blood. Courtesy Seventy-Seven.
Dread Beat …
Through the works of Kafka, Berger, Sebald, and more, Kate Zambreno's book reflects on our perceptions of nonhuman animals and
our own animal nature.
Animal Stories, by Kate Zambreno,
Tra…
Dag Johan Haugerud's trilogy concludes with the portrayal of a teenager who writes a manuscript detailing her infatuation with
her high school teacher.
Selome Emnetu as Johanna and Ella Ã…
The specters of history and photography haunt thirty-two works in the artist's first US survey in over twenty years.
Stan Douglas: Ghostlight, installation view. Courtesy Hessel Museum of A…
In a new live album, protest music that proves the regenerative power of naming and withholding names.
Saul Williams meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople, by Saul Williams and C…
Epic and anarchic: a trio of installations showcase the artist's rangy, timeless world-making.
Anna Boghiguian: The Sunken Boat: A glimpse into past histories, installation view. Courtesy T…
A documentary on the "Nazi directress" by Andres Veiel raises new questions about art, ethics, and judgment.
Leni Riefenstahl during the CBC interview "Leni Riefenstahl in her own words," 1…
The poet, the political scientist, the historian, the curator,
the cosmopolitan Africanist.
Okwui Enwezor: Selected Writings, Volume 1: Toward a New African Art Discourse and Volume 2: Cur…
Two volumes of the late critic and curator's writings provide a crucial orienting point from which to expand the horizons of contemporary art.
Okwui Enwezor: Selected Writings, Volume 1: To…
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 assistant senior editor Bolek is looking forward to some time away from the city.
4Columns is taking a short seasonal hiatus"but we'll be returning with a fresh new issue on Septem…
Quiet chaos, comedic sparks, Bette Midler tunes: Abby Rosebrock's play illuminates the fragile emotional dynamics of a Tinder dinner date.
Babak Tafti as David in Lowcountry. Photo: Ahron R…
In Marlen Haushofer's 1958 novella, a riveting and disturbing tale of blame, shame, and consequence.
Killing Stella, by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside,
New Directions, 87 …
Albert Serra continues his provocative explorations of white European power and decadence in a documentary about
bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey.
Andrés Roca Rey (center foreground) in After…
The beautiful, anti-bourgeois, language-breaking works of the
twentieth-century Belgian artist.
Sophie Podolski: Wisdom Should be Sung, installation view. Courtesy Goldsmiths Centre for…
