477 stories from 4columns
Of family and fauna: a young protagonist at the center of Lila Avilés's latest film navigates a day of domestic chaos and festivities.
NaÃÂma SentÃÂes as Sol in Tótem. Courtesy Film…
As above, so below"two installations by the Colombian artist journey between the heavens and the earth.
Delcy Morelos, Cielo terrenal (Earthly Heaven), 2023. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation. Ph…
On violence, liberation, and the collective: a new biography of
Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz.
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, by Adam Shatz, Farrar, Straus and G…
From Modernist grid to subversive textiles, over one hundred works relay an intertwined narrative of painting and pattern, community and identity.
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstr…
Audrey Schulman's new novel tells a profound tale of mind control, misogyny, language learning, and interspecies connections at a 1960s marine research facility.
The Dolphin House, by Audre…
In Chantal Akerman's newly restored 1982 film, lovers unite and separate over the course of one summer night in a series of mysterious vignettes.
Still from Toute une nuit. Courtesy Collect…
Cloudward and onward: the musician finds a newfound steadiness in her latest album.
Cloudward, by Mary Halvorson, Nonesuch Records
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Mary Halvorson's Class of 2019…
4Columns is on holiday break and will be back with a new issue on January 12, 2024! Till then, we look back at our most-read essays of the past year.
Father Time (4Columns assistant senior …
Desolation and devastation"but also pleasures"of the body, in an exhibition of new paintings.
Tracey Emin: Lovers Grave, installation view. Courtesy White Cube. Photo: White Cube (On White …
In a biopic of Enzo Ferrari, Michael Mann focuses on deals, details, and destruction on the racetrack.
Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari in Ferrari. Courtesy Neon. Photo: Lorenzo Sisti.
Ferrari,…
In the photographer's current MoMA exhibition,
a reminder that war is never over.
An-My Lê: Between Two Rivers / Giữa hai giòng sông / Entre deux rivières, installation view…
The rapper's latest album, Pink Friday 2, demonstrates the
jagged wound of moving on.
Pink Friday 2, by Nicki Minaj,
Young Money Entertainment and Republic Records
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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…
