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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>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>
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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>
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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>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/chan_fortress-besieged_cover_image.jpg" length="543136" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<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>
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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>
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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>
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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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<title>Superstars</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian Dillon]]></dc:creator>
<category>Literature</category>
<description><![CDATA[C&rsquo;est cool . . . Ann Scott&rsquo;s novel set amid a &rsquo;90s Parisian milieu of techno beats, club drugs, and bisexual ravers.

Superstars, by Ann Scott, translated by Jonathan Woollen, 
Astra House, 304 pages, $22


&bull;&nbsp;...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/dillon-brian/superstars</link>
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<title>Blue Heron</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Orange]]></dc:creator>
<category>Film</category>
<description><![CDATA[Family tragedy and fracture evoke lingering questions in Sophy Romvari&rsquo;s debut feature, set on Vancouver Island.

Still from&nbsp;Blue Heron. Courtesy Janus Films.

Blue Heron, written and directed by Sophy Romvari, now playing in theaters in...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/orange-michelle/blue-heron</link>
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<title>Noah Davis</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aruna D’Souza]]></dc:creator>
<category>Visual Art</category>
<description><![CDATA[A traveling retrospective of essential viewing makes an elegiac landing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Noah Davis, installation view. Courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art. Pictured, far left: Forty Acres and a Unicorn, 2007. Second from left:...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/d-souza-aruna/noah-davis-2026</link>
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<title>Intelligence Is the Art of Remaining Faithful under Shifting Circumstances</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sukhdev Sandhu]]></dc:creator>
<category>Nonfiction</category>
<description><![CDATA[Created in collaboration with Anselm Kiefer, a new book by the late Alexander Kluge reveals the polymath&rsquo;s dizzying, 
allusive, spellbinding depths.

Intelligence is the Art of Remaining Faithful under Shifting Circumstances, by Alexander...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/sandhu-sukhdev/intelligence-is-the-art-of-remaining-faithful-under-shifting-circumstances</link>
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<title>Whitney Biennial 2026</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ania Szremski]]></dc:creator>
<category>Visual Art</category>
<description><![CDATA[The critics aren&rsquo;t all right: this year&rsquo;s survey is a sharply political and totally sincere iteration.

Whitney Biennial 2026, installation view. Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art. Photo: Jason Lowrie / BFA.com. &copy; BFA....]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/szremski-ania/whitney-biennial-2026</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/szremski_whitney-biennial-2026_image_1.jpg" length="556083" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>No New York</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geeta Dayal]]></dc:creator>
<category>Punk</category>
<description><![CDATA[Adele Bertei&rsquo;s book forefronts the many women artists, filmmakers, and musicians who were integral to the no wave scene.

No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene, by Adele Bertei, Beacon Press, 328 pages,...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/dayal-geeta/no-new-york</link>
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<title>Tina Aumont</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Beatrice Loayza]]></dc:creator>
<category>Film</category>
<description><![CDATA[In a new retrospective series at Anthology, an indelible actress whose story remains full of ellipses.

Tina Aumont as Henriette in Fellini&rsquo;s Casanova. &copy; Universal.

&ldquo;La fille des &eacute;toiles: Tina Aumont,&rdquo; Anthology Film...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/loayza-beatrice/tina-aumont</link>
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<title>The Palm House</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zack Hatfield]]></dc:creator>
<category>Literature</category>
<description><![CDATA[Awkward parties, dreary bars, rudderless female narrator: Gwendoline Riley&rsquo;s latest is a delicate novel about love, friendship, and contempt.

The Palm House, by Gwendoline Riley, 
New York Review Books, 211 pages, $16.95


&bull;&nbsp;...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/hatfield-zack/the-palm-house</link>
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