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A series focusing on black British filmmakers reflects the clamor and
unrest of the '60s to '80s.
Still from Blood Ah Go Run. Courtesy the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
"Uncharted Territorie…
Of blood and beauty: a rerelease of Baudelaire's 1857 collection, translated by George Dillon and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Flowers of Evil, by Charles Baudelaire, translated by George Dillo…
There once was a young man who dreamed of becoming
a master butcher . . .
Tenderloin, by Joy Sorman, translated by Lara Vergnaud,
Restless Books, 165 pages, $18
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Edgelord provocations and shockingly average nakedness,
brought to you by Joanna Arnow.
Joanna Arnow as Ann and Scott Cohen as Allen in The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Pa…
From botany and textiles to abstraction and corporate rejection, the artist's show presents a playful and processual approach.
Yto Barrada: Bite the Hand, installation view. Courtesy Pace G…
In the German artist's works confronting historical violence, a serious side to the Fluxus movement.
Wolf Vostell: Dé-coll/age Is Your Life, installation view. Courtesy Harvard Art Museums…
Memories, speak: in a novel by Monika Zgustova, the story of Véra and Vladimir Nabokov's marriage, and the fallout of an early affair, is triangulated through a prism of perspectives.
A Re…
A strikingly incompatible Marianne Faithfull and Alain Delon star in Jack Cardiff's fascinating and bizarre biker film from 1968.
Marianne Faithfull as Rebecca in The Girl on a Motorcycle. …
In Cowboy Carter, the Queen Bey presiding over the end of empire is also preparing for the next new thing.
Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé,
Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records
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In his new poetry collection, Wayne Koestenbaum animates the everyday with the forces of theory, stylized futility, and an aestheticist's will.
Stubble Archipelago, by Wayne Koestenbaum,
S…
Back to the fear of the future: in Bertrand Bonello's time-skipping film, the tragedies of love and fate can never be left behind.
George MacKay as Louis Lewanski and Léa Seydoux as Gabrie…
Not all is quiet on the American-art front.
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, installation view. Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art. Photo: Ron Amstutz. Pictured,…
A climate-crisis anti-memoir by novelist Lydia Millet makes a case for humility before nature.
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life, by Lydia Millet,
W. W. Norton, 254 pages, $27.99
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4Columns is spring-flinging this week, but we'll be back with a new issue on Friday, April 5!
4Columns assistant senior editor Bolek and mascot Sparky are taking a week off for some fun in …
Side effects may vary: in Lucy Prebble's play, love and romance go head-to-head with an experimental antidepressant.
Paapa Essiedu as Tristan and Taylor Russell as Connie in The Effect. Cou…
The Egyptian composer and vocalist reshaping Cairo's
experimental music scene.
Les damnés ne pleurent pas, by Nadah El Shazly, Asadun Alay Records
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In Alice Rohrwacher's hauntingly whimsical film, an archaeologist turned grave robber in 1980s Tuscany finds that some losses are buried
too deeply to be excavated.
Josh O'Connor as Arthur…
Nothing will prepare you for this dark, dizzying novel
by the late Heather Lewis.
Notice, by Heather Lewis, Semiotext(e), 243 pages, $17.95
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An expansive multidisciplinary exhibition by Shezad Dawood, inspired by the late jazz composer Yusef Lateef’s 1988 novella.
Shezad Dawood: Night in the Garden of Love, installation vi…
A new show highlights the celebrated art director’s innovations in photography and design during his mid-century reign at Harper’s Bazaar.
Alexey Brodovitch: Astonish Me, instal…
In her latest album, Eternal Sunshine, the pop artist reveals
a mind far from spotless.
Eternal Sunshine, by Ariana Grande, Republic
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The Diné artist expands on sound and embodiment in the space between point and counterpoint.
Raven Chacon: A Worm’s Eye View from a Bird’s Beak, installation view. Courte…
In Diane Seuss’s sixth collection, a cobbling together
of forms and forbears.
Modern Poetry: Poems, by Diane Seuss, Graywolf Press, 112 pages, $26
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Roid-raging against the machine: lez lovers embark on a path of vengeance in Rose Glass’s second film.
Katy O’Brian as Jackie and Kristen Stewart as Lou in Love Lies Bleeding. C…
Of mushrooms and mayhem: In Jennifer Croft’s novel, eight translators who work in eight different languages gather in their author’s rural home . . . what could possibly go wrong…
