461 stories from 4columns
Francesc Tosquelles is the hero we need right now.
Tosquelles: Healing Institutions, by Joana Masó with texts by Francesc Tosquelles, translated by Robert Hurley and Mara Faye Lethem, Semi…
The digital-arte-povera style of James N. Kienitz Wilkins’s film renders the jankiness and alienation of the modern workplace.
Tobin (voiced by Jesse Wakeman) in The Misconceived. Courtes…
An exhibition at the Bozar in Brussels traces the origins of the obsession with good looks.
Beauty and Ugliness, installation view. Courtesy the Bozar. © Yannick SAS.
Beauty and Ugliness:…
Talking about men, really: the artist’s new works point to corporations, politicians, and their conspiratorial powers.
Sarah Morris: Snow Leopards and Skyscrapers, installation view. Cour…
Qian Zhongshu’s epic picaresque from 1947 presents a world in which fraudulence and opportunism cast a shadow across all levels of society.
Fortress Besieged, by Qian Zhongshu, translated…
In Lucrecia Martel’s first full-length documentary, a continued fascination with the limitations of perspective and the obtuseness of the bourgeoisie.
Still from Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)…
A new show highlights the astonishingly phantasmagoric works created by the artist in response to the rise of National Socialism.
Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds, installation view. Courte…
At the outset of the Great Migration, trajectories converge beyond the wreckage of history in August Wilson’s 1988 drama.
Cedric “The Entertainer” as Seth Holly, Taraji P. Henson as B…
One viewer’s embrace of sweet nostalgia is another’s
artificial fantasy of yesteryear.
Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work, installation view. Courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum. …
Rosa Campbell chronicles Shere Hite’s groundbreaking 1976 report on clitoral stimulation and its fate in the culture.
The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared: Shere …
Maurice Pialat’s compassionate 1971 miniseries examines the Great War’s fracturing of civilian life.
Hervé Lévy as Hervé Gardy and Michel Terrazon as Michel Latour in La maison…
Light in the dark, dark in the light: the Austrian Romani artist’s work is given space to speak for itself in a show at the Drawing Center.
Ceija Stojka: Making Visible, installation view…
C'est cool . . . Ann Scott's novel set amid a '90s Parisian milieu of techno beats, club drugs, and bisexual ravers.
Superstars, by Ann Scott, translated by Jonathan Woollen,
Astra House, …
A traveling retrospective of essential viewing makes an elegiac landing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Noah Davis, installation view. Courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art. Pictured, far …
Family tragedy and fracture evoke lingering questions in Sophy Romvari's debut feature, set on Vancouver Island.
Still from Blue Heron. Courtesy Janus Films.
Blue Heron, written and dir…
Created in collaboration with Anselm Kiefer, a new book by the late Alexander Kluge reveals the polymath's dizzying,
allusive, spellbinding depths.
Intelligence is the Art of Remaining Fai…
The critics aren't all right: this year's survey is a sharply political and totally sincere iteration.
Whitney Biennial 2026, installation view. Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art. Pho…
In a new retrospective series at Anthology, an indelible actress whose story remains full of ellipses.
Tina Aumont as Henriette in Fellini's Casanova. © Universal.
"La fille des étoile…
Adele Bertei's book forefronts the many women artists, filmmakers, and musicians who were integral to the no wave scene.
No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene,…
Awkward parties, dreary bars, rudderless female narrator: Gwendoline Riley's latest is a delicate novel about love, friendship, and contempt.
The Palm House, by Gwendoline Riley,
New York …
Steven Soderbergh's intriguing new drama about the anguish of abandoning one's art.
Michaela Coel as Lori Butler and Ian McKellen as Julian Sklar in The Christophers. Courtesy Neon. Photo: …
With her latest album, Sexistential, the artist enters her neurochemistry era.
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That sound you heard last November when Robyn relea…
In Ben Lerner's fourth novel, the dilemma of a broken phone powers a story about consciousness and connection.
Transcription, by Ben Lerner,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 130 pages, $25
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Lovers, friends, rivals, antagonists: Andrew Durbin's revelatory biography of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek.
The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, by Andrew …
We're taking a spring-break hiatus, but will be returning on Friday, April 3!
4Columns mascot Sparky and assistant senior editor Bolek are looking forward to taking things bird by bird duri…
