Thursday, January 22, 2026

Sonny Simmons by Harmony Holiday

In the jazz musician’s autobiography, an elaborate, dizzying accumulation of memories and moves, tour stories and sonic endurance. Better Do it Now Before You Die Later, by Sonny Simmons …

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Autumn Leaves by Melissa Anderson

Striking discordances bring an animated intensity to Robert Aldrich’s 1956 tearjerker starring Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson. Joan Crawford as Millicent “Milly” Wetherby and Cliff…

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Caravaggio by Ania Szremski

Big stories emerge from a small showcase at the Morgan centered on the Italian painter’s Boy with a Basket of Fruit. Caravaggio’s Boy with a Basket of Fruit in Focus, installation view.…

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Vigil by David L. Ulin

In George Saunders’s follow-up to Lincoln in the Bardo, death comes for us all—with the possibility of grace. Vigil, by George Saunders, Random House, 174 pages, $28 •   •  �…

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Thursday, January 15, 2026

Cat Power by Sasha Frere-Jones

A twentieth-anniversary reissue of The Greatest renews faith in the artist’s soul-baring songs. The Greatest and Redux, by Cat Power, Domino Recording Company •   •   • G…

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Bug by David Cote

Tracy Letts’s ’90s roadside psychodrama makes its Broadway debut. Carrie Coon as Agnes White in Bug. © Matthew Murphy. Bug, written by Tracy Letts, directed by David Cromer, Samuel J.…

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A Private Life by Beatrice Loayza

Rebecca Zlotowski’s film starring Jodie Foster takes the form of a wry murder mystery with a side of mystical melodrama. Jodie Foster as Lilian Steiner in A Private Life. Courtesy Sony Pi…

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MONUMENTS by Alex Kitnick

Confederate statuary takes on new meanings in a history-making show at MOCA and the Brick in LA. MONUMENTS, installation view. Courtesy the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Brick. Photo: …

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Thursday, January 8, 2026

The School of Night by Reinaldo Laddaga

In Karl Ove Knausgaard’s latest, the tragicomic tale of an artist’s unwitting Faustian bargain. The School of Night, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Martin Aitken, Penguin Press, …

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plastic by Brian Dillon

In Matthew Rice’s book-length poem, a portrait of the poet on a factory night shift. plastic: A Poem, by Matthew Rice, Soft Skull, 90 pages, $15.95 •   •   • Before it wa…

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Nicole Eisenman by Aruna D’souza

Art in a time of war: an exhibition of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and collages at 52 Walker. Nicole Eisenman: STY, installation view. Courtesy 52 Walker. Nicole Eisenman: STY, 52 Wal…

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Magellan by Nathan Lee

Aestheticized violence and fussy formalism in Lav Diaz’s new film. Gael García Bernal as Ferdinand Magellan in Magellan. Courtesy Janus Films. Magellan, written and directed by Lav Diaz…

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Thursday, January 1, 2026

Top 10 Most-Read Columns of 2025 by 4 Columns

Our annual year-in-art-reviews. Does arts criticism go viral? Relatively speaking, it does! Our editors are here with a countdown of 2025’s most engrossing, attention-grabbing reviews,…

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Thursday, December 25, 2025

Winter Break 2025 by 4 Columns

We’ll be back with a new issue on January 9, 2026! 4Columns mascot Old Saint Sparky and assistant senior editor Bolek wishing you a festive winter break. We’re hunkering down for a min…

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Thursday, December 18, 2025

Charles Hayward and Will Brooks by Geeta Dayal

A genre-defying collaborative album by the percussionist and the MC exhibits a shared politics of destabilization. HAYWARDxDÄLEK, by Charles Hayward and Will Brooks (aka MC dälek), Relaps…

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Mimosa Echard by Beatrice Loayza

A material girl in a material world: hyperfeminine stylings commingle with industrial structures and materials in the artist’s exhibition. Mimosa Echard: Facial, installation view. Courte…

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ECHO DELAY REVERB by Laura McLean-Ferris

French theory’s influences ripple through the development of American art in a show at Palais de Tokyo in Paris. ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought, installation view. C…

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Marty Supreme by Melissa Anderson

A young table-tennis champ careens and crashes through an obstacle course of chaos and catastrophes in Josh Safdie’s new film. Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser in Marty Supreme. Courtes…

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Thursday, December 11, 2025

The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer by Sasha Frere-Jones

Idris Robinson’s book presents a radical perspective on the role of martyrdom in the next American revolution. The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer, by Idris Robinson, Semi…

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The Studio Museum in Harlem by Aruna D’souza

In the newly reopened museum, a balancing act between extravagant architecture and the institution’s historical origins. From Now: A Collection in Context, installation view. Courtesy Stu…

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Resurrection by Ed Halter

Only dreamers left alive: the visual pleasures and overreaching ambitions of Bi Gan’s latest film. Jackson Yee as the Deliriant in Resurrection. Courtesy Janus Films. Resurrection, writt…

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Tishan Hsu: emergence by Jennifer Krasinski

Skin and limbs, eyes and tongues: a mesmerizing ambivalence shades the artist’s monstrous creations enmeshing flesh and tech. Tishan Hsu: emergence, installation view. Courtesy Lisson Gal…

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Thursday, December 4, 2025

The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift by Brian Dillon

Plathies and Swifties unite: Maggie Nelson’s latest explores the overlap between the star poet and the pop star. The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift, by Maggie Nelson, Graywolf …

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Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena by Alex Kitnick

Dreams, visions, and micro-contexts: a new show at the Drawing Center limns the outer reaches of our known world. Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena, installation view. Courtesy …

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Mary Woronov Conquers the Universe by Melissa Anderson

In a retrospective series at Anthology Film Archives, the cult-cinema icon’s bewitching essence is on full display. Mary Woronov as Camilla Stone in Sugar Cookies. Courtesy Anthology Film…

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Berlin Childhood Around 1900 by Sasha Frere-Jones

In thirty-two pieces by Walter Benjamin, a recollection of moments at the confluence of individual memory and collective history. Berlin Childhood Around 1900, by Walter Benjamin, translate…

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Thursday, November 27, 2025

On Foods and Feasts by 4 Columns

We’ll be back with a new issue on December 5! In the meantime, we’re offering up an array of culinarily-inclined reviews to whet your appetite. 4Columns mascot Sparky and assistant seni…

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Thursday, November 20, 2025

The Complete C Comics by Albert Mobilio

Playful antics and gentle subversions in two comic books by Joe Brainard in collaboration with fellow members of the New York School. The Complete C Comics, by Joe Brainard, foreword by Ron…

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The Secret Agent by Melissa Anderson

’70s cinema homages, ’70s mustaches, ’70s dictatorship repression: Kleber Mendonça Filho’s latest mixes high-energy excitement with the ghosts of the past. Wagner Moura as Marcelo…

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Oedipus by Rhoda Feng

Robert Icke’s adaptation of Sophocles ventures into the arena of modern-day electoral politics. Mark Strong as Oedipus and Samuel Brewer as Teiresias in Oedipus. Courtesy DKC/O&M. Pho…

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Spectrum of Desire by Jo Livingstone

The medieval heart (and loins) knows no bounds in a new exhibition at the Cloisters. Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages, installation view. Courtesy Metropolitan …

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2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off