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<title>4Columns</title>
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<description><![CDATA[4Columns is a website of arts criticism aimed at a general audience. Its title refers, quite literally, to what you’ll find there each week: four new columns, each with a distinctive voice and perspective. Together, they offer a complex and compelling view of contemporary culture, from film to literature to theater to the visual arts.]]></description>
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<title>The Currents</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa Anderson]]></dc:creator>
<category>Film</category>
<description><![CDATA[Call her by her new name: in Milagros Mumenthaler&rsquo;s film about a fashion designer&rsquo;s mental disintegration, a story of the ruptures between before and after, past and present.

Isabel Aim&eacute; Gonz&aacute;lez Sola as Lina in The...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/anderson-melissa/the-currents</link>
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<title>Gothic By Design</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Krasinski]]></dc:creator>
<category>Architecture</category>
<description><![CDATA[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 Draftsmanship, installation view. Courtesy Metropolitan...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/krasinski-jennifer/gothic-by-design</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/krasinski_gothic-by-design_image_1.jpg" length="379720" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Light While There Is Light</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Banks]]></dc:creator>
<category>Literature</category>
<description><![CDATA[In the late poet Keith Waldrop&rsquo;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 pages, $16.95


&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/banks-eric/light-while-there-is-light</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/banks_light-while-there-is-light_cover_image.jpg" length="609094" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Marcel Duchamp</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Kitnick]]></dc:creator>
<category>Visual Art</category>
<description><![CDATA[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 Dorado.

Marcel Duchamp, curated by Ann Temkin, Michelle...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/kitnick-alex/marcel-duchamp-2026</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/kitnick_marcel-duchamp-moma_image_1.jpg" length="376056" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Alo&#x26;iuml;se</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa Anderson]]></dc:creator>
<category>Film</category>
<description><![CDATA[Rising star Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig at her peak deliver impressive performances as a Swiss outsider artist in Liliane de Kermadec&rsquo;s elliptical 1975 film.

Isabelle Huppert as young Alo&iuml;se in Alo&iuml;se. Courtesy Several...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/anderson-melissa/aloise</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/anderson_aloise_image_1.jpg" length="562854" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Painters, Ports, and Profits</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aruna D’Souza]]></dc:creator>
<category>Visual Art</category>
<description><![CDATA[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: Artists and the East India Company, 1750&ndash;1850,...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/d-souza-aruna/painters-ports-and-profits</link>
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<title>How to See Like a Machine</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian Dillon]]></dc:creator>
<category>Nonfiction</category>
<description><![CDATA[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


&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;&bull;


The artist Trevor...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/dillon-brian/how-to-see-like-a-machine</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/dillon_how-to-see-like-a-machine_cover_image.jpg" length="523063" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Kacey Musgraves</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Chan]]></dc:creator>
<category>Country</category>
<description><![CDATA[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


&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;&bull;


In a pop-culture landscape that feeds on...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/chan-andrew/kacey-musgraves</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/chan_kacey-musgraves_cover_image.jpg" length="303739" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Healing Institutions</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sasha Frere-Jones]]></dc:creator>
<category>Nonfiction</category>
<description><![CDATA[Francesc Tosquelles is the hero we need right now.

Tosquelles: Healing Institutions, by Joana Mas&oacute; with texts by Francesc Tosquelles, translated by Robert Hurley and Mara Faye Lethem, Semiotext(e), 397 pages, $24.95


&bull;&nbsp;...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/frere-jones-sasha/healing-institutions</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/frere-jones_healing-institutions_cover_image.jpg" length="489251" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Beauty and Ugliness</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Beatrice Loayza]]></dc:creator>
<category>Visual Art</category>
<description><![CDATA[An exhibition at the Bozar in Brussels traces the origins of the obsession with good looks.

Beauty and Ugliness, installation view. Courtesy the Bozar. &copy; Yannick SAS.

Beauty and Ugliness: The Ideal, the Real and the Caricature in the...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/loayza-beatrice/beauty-and-ugliness</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/loayza_beauty-and-ugliness_image_1.jpg" length="577968" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Misconceived</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sukhdev Sandhu]]></dc:creator>
<category>Film</category>
<description><![CDATA[The digital-arte-povera style of James N. Kienitz Wilkins&rsquo;s film renders the jankiness and alienation of the modern workplace.

Tobin (voiced by Jesse Wakeman) in The Misconceived. Courtesy Monument Releasing.

The Misconceived, directed by...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/sandhu-sukhdev/the-misconceived</link>
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<title>Sarah Morris</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily LaBarge]]></dc:creator>
<category>Visual Art</category>
<description><![CDATA[Talking about men, really: the artist&rsquo;s new works point to corporations, politicians, and their conspiratorial powers.

Sarah Morris: Snow Leopards and Skyscrapers, installation view. Courtesy White Cube. Photo: White Cube (Theo Christelis)....]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/labarge-emily/sarah-morris</link>
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<title>Fortress Besieged</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Chan]]></dc:creator>
<category>Literature</category>
<description><![CDATA[Qian Zhongshu&rsquo;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 by Jeanne Kelly and Nathan K. Mao, New Directions, 395...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/chan-andrew/fortress-besieged</link>
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<item>
<title>Paul Klee</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Reinaldo Laddaga]]></dc:creator>
<category>Visual Art</category>
<description><![CDATA[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. Courtesy the Jewish Museum. Photo: Kris Graves Projects / Julian...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/laddaga-reinaldo/paul-klee</link>
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<title>Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leo Goldsmith]]></dc:creator>
<category>Film</category>
<description><![CDATA[In Lucrecia Martel&rsquo;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). Courtesy Strand Releasing.

Our Land (Nuestra...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/goldsmith-leo/our-land-nuestra-tierra</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/goldsmith_our-land_image_1.jpg" length="259781" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Joe Turner&#x26;rsquo;s Come and Gone</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rhoda Feng]]></dc:creator>
<category>Theater</category>
<description><![CDATA[At the outset of the Great Migration, trajectories converge beyond the wreckage of history in August Wilson&rsquo;s 1988 drama.

Cedric &ldquo;The Entertainer&rdquo; as Seth Holly, Taraji P. Henson as Bertha Holly, Joshua Boone as Herald Loomis,...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/feng-rhoda/joe-turners-come-and-gone</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/feng_joe-turners-come-and-gone_image_1.jpg" length="543842" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Grandma Moses</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Krasinski]]></dc:creator>
<category>Visual Art</category>
<description><![CDATA[One viewer&rsquo;s embrace of sweet nostalgia is another&rsquo;s 
artificial fantasy of yesteryear.

Grandma Moses: A Good Day&rsquo;s Work, installation view. Courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum. Photo: Albert Ting.

Grandma Moses: A Good...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/krasinski-jennifer/grandma-moses</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/krasinski_grandma-moses_image_1.jpg" length="526383" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>La maison des bois</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa Anderson]]></dc:creator>
<category>Film</category>
<description><![CDATA[Maurice Pialat&rsquo;s compassionate 1971 miniseries examines the Great War&rsquo;s fracturing of civilian life.

Herv&eacute; L&eacute;vy as ​​Herv&eacute; Gardy and Michel Terrazon as Michel Latour in La maison des bois. Courtesy Janus...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/anderson-melissa/la-maison-des-bois</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/anderson_la-maison-des-bois_image_1.jpg" length="515534" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sasha Archibald]]></dc:creator>
<category>Nonfiction</category>
<description><![CDATA[Rosa Campbell chronicles Shere Hite&rsquo;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 Hite and the Hite Report, by Rosa Campbell, 
Melville...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/archibald-sasha/the-book-that-taught-the-world-to-orgasm-and-then-disappeared</link>
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<title>Ceija Stojka</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ania Szremski]]></dc:creator>
<category>Visual Art</category>
<description><![CDATA[Light in the dark, dark in the light: the Austrian Romani artist&rsquo;s work is given space to speak for itself in a show at the Drawing Center.

Ceija Stojka: Making Visible, installation view. Courtesy the Drawing Center. Photo: Daniel...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/szremski-ania/ceija-stojka</link>
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