Thursday, September 11, 2025

Saul Williams and Carlos Niño by Harmony Holiday

In a new live album, protest music that proves the regenerative power of naming and withholding names. Saul Williams meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople, by Saul Williams and Car…

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Stan Douglas by Aruna D’souza

The specters of history and photography haunt thirty-two works in the artist’s first US survey in over twenty years. Stan Douglas: Ghostlight, installation view. Courtesy Hessel Museum of…

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Dreams by Melissa Anderson

Dag Johan Haugerud’s trilogy concludes with the portrayal of a teenager who writes a manuscript detailing her infatuation with her high school teacher. Selome Emnetu as Johanna and Ella …

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Animal Stories by Brian Dillon

Through the works of Kafka, Berger, Sebald, and more, Kate Zambreno’s book reflects on our perceptions of nonhuman animals and our own animal nature. Animal Stories, by Kate Zambreno, T…

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Thursday, September 4, 2025

Okwui Enwezor by Oluremi C. Onabanjo

Two volumes of the late critic and curator’s writings provide a crucial orienting point from which to expand the horizons of contemporary art. Okwui Enwezor: Selected Writings, Volume 1: …

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Okwui Enwezor by Carlos Basualdo

The poet, the political scientist, the historian, the curator, the cosmopolitan Africanist. Okwui Enwezor: Selected Writings, Volume 1: Toward a New African Art Discourse and Volume 2: Cur…

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Riefenstahl by Michelle Orange

A documentary on the “Nazi directress” by Andres Veiel raises new questions about art, ethics, and judgment. Leni Riefenstahl during the CBC interview “Leni Riefenstahl in her own wor…

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Anna Boghiguian by Emily Labarge

Epic and anarchic: a trio of installations showcase the artist’s rangy, timeless world-making. Anna Boghiguian: The Sunken Boat: A glimpse into past histories, installation view. Courtesy…

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Thursday, August 28, 2025

The Fall 2025 Preview by 4 Columns

Come one, come all, come see what we have in store for you this fall! Anna Boghiguian: The Sunken Boat: A glimpse into past histories, installation view. Courtesy Turner Contemporary. Photo…

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Thursday, August 21, 2025

Critic’s Picks: Books of the Summer by 4 Columns

Philosophy, case study, biography, fiction: four newly published page-turners to add to your bookshelf. As the dog days of summer wind down to an end and we brace for September, four criti…

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Thursday, August 14, 2025

Critic’s Picks: Albums of the Summer by 4 Columns

Songs to sweat by: a roundup of four new music recommendations. What is the perfect summer album? Based on this week’s picks by four 4Columns critics, beauty truly is in the ear of the be…

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Thursday, August 7, 2025

Critic’s Picks: Exhibitions of the Summer by 4 Columns

A quartet of art recommendations, spanning both sides of the Atlantic. NO-PHOTO 2025, installation view. Both posters captioned “Photo: Hatem Khaled, Khan Younis, 19 May 2025.” Courtesy…

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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Reference Materials by 4 Columns

Three movies in which moviemaking itself plays a starring role. Margot Robbie plays Nellie LaRoy in Babylon. Courtesy Paramount Pictures. Photo: Scott Garfield. The youngest art form, cine…

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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Place Is the Space by 4 Columns

For our third summer missive, reviews that center on place and feelings of home.  Stephen Shore, U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon, July 21, 1973, 1973. Chromogenic color print, pri…

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Thursday, July 17, 2025

Rebel Rebel by 4 Columns

United we stan this trio of films focusing on activists and revolutionaries. Nahuel Pérez Biscayart in BPM. Courtesy Céline Nieszawer. During the first iteration of the Trump kakistocrac…

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Thursday, July 10, 2025

MANIFESTO! by 4 Columns

Ciarán Finlayson and Johanna Fateman at the MANIFESTO! event on March 19, 2025. On March 19, 2025, a rowdy audience packed into KGB Bar in downtown Manhattan, elbow-to-elbow, knee-to-knee,…

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Thursday, July 3, 2025

Beach days ahead . . . see ya in September! by Summer Break

4Columns assistant senior editor Bolek is looking forward to some time away from the city. 4Columns is taking a short seasonal hiatus—but we’ll be returning with a fresh new issue on Se…

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Thursday, June 26, 2025

Sophie Podolski by Emily Labarge

The beautiful, anti-bourgeois, language-breaking works of the twentieth-century Belgian artist. Sophie Podolski: Wisdom Should be Sung, installation view. Courtesy Goldsmiths Centre for C…

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Afternoons of Solitude by Leo Goldsmith

Albert Serra continues his provocative explorations of white European power and decadence in a documentary about bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey. Andrés Roca Rey (center foreground) in After…

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Killing Stella by Elvia Wilk

In Marlen Haushofer’s 1958 novella, a riveting and disturbing tale of blame, shame, and consequence. Killing Stella, by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside, New Directions, 8…

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Lowcountry by Rhoda Feng

Quiet chaos, comedic sparks, Bette Midler tunes: Abby Rosebrock’s play illuminates the fragile emotional dynamics of a Tinder dinner date. Babak Tafti as David in Lowcountry. Photo: Ahron…

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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Brìghde Chaimbeul by Geeta Dayal

In the Scottish musician’s incantatory new album, a mesmerizing blend of folk traditions and experimental sounds. Sunwise, by Brìghde Chaimbeul, Tak:Til/Glitterbeat •   •   �…

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Pierre Huyghe by Margaret Sundell

An artist in pursuit of unpredictable outcomes. Pierre Huyghe: In Imaginal, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photo: Alex Yudzon. Pictured: Annlee – UUmwe…

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Christiane F. by Melissa Anderson

Drugs, desperation, degradation, David Bowie: Uli Edel’s 1981 cult film portrays the downward spiral of a young girl who falls in with teenage street addicts in West Berlin. Natja Brunckh…

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Homework by Brian Dillon

The profound lightness of being: a moving, amusing first memoir by Geoff Dyer. Homework: A Memoir, by Geoff Dyer, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 276 pages, $29 •   •   • “It…

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Thursday, June 12, 2025

Alien Roots: Éliane Radigue by Sasha Frere-Jones

Never the same experience twice for the ninety-three-year-old French composer. Alien Roots: Éliane Radigue, edited by Charles Curtis and Lawrence Kumpf, Blank Forms, $25 •   • …

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Rashid Johnson by Aruna D’souza

With plants, books, multimedia and multimodal works, a nod toward Black survival, liberation, and love. Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers, installation view. Courtesy Solomon R. Gugg…

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Materialists by Melissa Anderson

A matchmaker girl living in a matrimonial world: Celine Song’s forgettable new rom-com. Dakota Johnson as Lucy and Pedro Pascal as Harry in Materialists. Courtesy A24. Photo: Atsushi Nis…

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Superfine: Tailoring Black Style by Darryl Pinckney

An exhibition on Black fashion over the course of the last three centuries presents costuming as self-creation. Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, installation view. Courtesy Metropolitan Mu…

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Thursday, June 5, 2025

I’ll Tell You When I’m Home by Leslie Camhi

In Hala Alyan’s memoir, themes of exile, loss, and cultural heritage emerge alongside preparations for the arrival of a baby via surrogacy. I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, by Hala Alyan,…

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Thursday, March 27, 2025

We’re taking a break for Spring Training! by 4 Columns

4Columns is taking a weeklong hiatus, but we’ll be back with new issues starting next Friday, April 4! 4Columns assistant senior editor Bolek and mascot Sparky take Spring Training very s…

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