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In her new novel about an author researching the Modernist writer, Deborah Levy examines rootlessness and expatriation, partnership and friendship, freedom and devotion to one’s art.
My Y…
Bonding, blending, and a kinship of aesthetics abound in an exhibition of works by the two artists.
David Hammons and Jannis Kounellis, installation view. Courtesy White Cube. © On White W…
On race and retail: Boots Riley’s mile-a-minute film is a wild mix of the heist genre, the ensemble comedy, labor satire, and outright science fiction.
Keke Palmer as Corvette in I Love B…
Antoine Fuqua constructs a biopic as comeback tour starring the King of Pop’s nephew, Jaafar Jackson.
Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in Michael. Courtesy Lionsgate. Photo: Glen Wilson.…
Call her by her new name: in Milagros Mumenthaler’s film about a fashion designer’s mental disintegration, a story of the ruptures between before and after, past and present.
Isabel Aim…
In the late poet Keith Waldrop’s fictional memoir, gentle humor and a powerful afterglow of melancholy and loss.
Light While There Is Light, by Keith Waldrop,
New York Review Books, 201 …
Closer to the heavens: nearly one hundred architectural plans and drawings from a period when attention was directed upward and beyond the stone.
Gothic By Design: The Dawn of Architectural…
MoMA turns the transatlantic Dadaist, prankster, fabricator and reproducer of objects into a proper artist.
Marcel Duchamp, installation view. Courtesy Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Jonathan…
Rising star Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig at her peak deliver impressive performances as a Swiss outsider artist in Liliane de Kermadec’s elliptical 1975 film.
Isabelle Huppert as …
Six short essays by Trevor Paglen on seeing and believing in an era of digital images.
How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI, by Trevor Paglen,
Verso, 176 pages, $24.95
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Works by Asian and British artists created for East India Company agents from 1750 to 1850 exemplify multidirectional influences and
extractive relationships.
Painters, Ports, and Profits:…
Here, there, Middle of Nowhere: the singer embraces the messy in-between on her latest album.
Middle of Nowhere, by Kacey Musgraves,
Lost Highway Records
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In a pop…
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, …
