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A new show of drawings, notebooks, and scores by the avant-garde composer reveals the private practices and processes of over
fifty years of genre-defying works.
John Zorn: Hermetic Cartog…
An exhibition locates the echoing visual schema found throughout the photographer's seventy-year career.
Irving Penn: Kinship, installation view. Courtesy Pace Gallery. Pictured, center, on…
Nearly a quarter century after exhibiting in a traveling tractor trailer, the artist's agitprop arrives in New York.
Fred Lonidier: N.A.F.T.A. (Not A Fair Trade for All), installation view.…
In 1900s and 1990s Chicago, parallel romances play out between two Black Chicagoans, one Deaf and one hearing.
John Earl Jelks as Arthur Jones and Michelle A. Banks as Malindy Brown in Comp…
You say hello, I say goodbye: Michael Erard's new study explores the range of meanings of first and final words.
Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words, by Michael Erard,…
Placemaking and escape-making: a show at Pioneer Works explores Black geographies and histories through connections to Octavia Butler's life and literature.
American Artist: Shaper of Go…
Blue is the color of the blockade, hunger, and war: eerie portraits of everyday street life in late twentieth-century Ukraine.
Boris Mikhailov: Refracted Times, installation view. Courtesy …
Nationalism gives way to interhuman solidarity in the dreamy, generous world of Matthew Rankin's latest film.
Still from Universal Language. Courtesy Oscilloscope Laboratories.
Universal L…
In Tove Jansson's newly reissued novel set in a Florida retirement home, old age is not wasted on the elderly.
Sun City, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal, New York Review Books, 2…
In Imani Perry's latest book, a gift of information and interconnectedness.
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, by Imani Perry, Ecco, 243 pages, $28.99
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Elegiac and optimistic, misanthropic and humanistic: a retrospective of the documentarian's extraordinary work spanning over half a century.
Still from Near Death. Courtesy Zipporah Films.
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The mistitling of Pankaj Mishra's new book.
The World After Gaza: A History, by Pankaj Mishra,
Penguin Press, 292 pages, $28
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Israel is death. To say anything el…
Attentiveness is an ongoing journey in the artist's moving exhibition.
Gregg Bordowitz: There: a Feeling, installation view. Courtesy Camden Art Centre. Photo: Luke Walker. Pictured, center…
In a show of works by the late artist, an homage to Sun Ra and the liberatory vision of the cosmic divine.
Barkley L. Hendricks: Space is the Place, installation view. Courtesy Estate of Ba…
Unverifiable unverifiable unverifiable: in Ali Smith's new novel, two young siblings navigate the powers and failings of language in a dystopian future.
Gliff, by Ali Smith,
Pantheon Books…
A reflection on the joy and agony of dark truths in the late director's films.
David Lynch in 2007. Courtesy Getty Images. Photo: Larry Armstrong.
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Inventiveness and invocation in the Brooklyn rapper's thirteenth album.
Showbiz!, by MIKE, 10k
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Don't be a clown, don't be a clone either. "MIKE
Showbiz! dangl…
Caleb Femi's joyous poetry documents chaos and community at a legendary house party in South London.
The Wickedest, by Caleb Femi,
MCD, 84 pages, $18
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Poor, Cale…
Honesty and horniness"the best policies:
a sex memoir by Edmund White.
The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir, by Edmund White,
Bloomsbury, 224 pages, $27.99
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A show at the Fondazione Prada in Milan renders visceral
the pleasures of pure percussion.
Meriem Bennani: For My Best Family, installation view. Courtesy Fondazione Prada. Photo: Delfino …
Domestic misery loves spectral company in
Steven Soderbergh's new thriller.
Callina Liang as Chloe in Presence. Courtesy Neon.
Presence, directed by Steven Soderbergh,
now in theaters
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From object modification to body modification, a revelatory show of the late artist's work exhibits consumer culture gone wild.
Pippa Garner: Misc. Pippa, installation view. Courtesy Matthe…
A kaleidoscope of media-dances and moving-image installations capture over fifty years of radiant, immersive, and collaborative works.
Charles Atlas: About Time, installation view. Courtesy…
To go gentle"and not so gentle"into that good night: two emotionally explosive films by Michael Roemer present unsparing
portrayals of illness and death.
Reverend Bryant in Dying. Courtesy…
Unnamed narrator, unnamed menace: a new translation of the powerfully unsettling 1969 novel by Argentine writer Antonio Di Benedetto.
The Suicides, by Antonio Di Benedetto, translated by Es…
