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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>You Won&#x26;rsquo;t Get Free of It</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Beller]]></dc:creator>
<category>Literature</category>
<description><![CDATA[Denial, delusion, dissociation: a new book collects Rachel Aviv&rsquo;s New Yorker essays about mothers and daughters.

You Won&rsquo;t Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters, by Rachel Aviv, Alfred A. Knopf, 223 pages, $30


&bull;&nbsp;...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/beller-thomas/you-wont-get-free-of-it</link>
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<title>Disclosure Day</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Chan]]></dc:creator>
<category>Film</category>
<description><![CDATA[Aliens are among us: in Steven Spielberg&rsquo;s latest film, the truth is out there&mdash;and on our screens.

Colman Domingo as Hugo Wakefield, Tommy Martinez as Santiago, Emily Blunt as Margaret Fairchild, and Josh O&rsquo;Connor as Dr. Daniel...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/chan-andrew/disclosure-day</link>
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<title>Boards of Canada</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geeta Dayal]]></dc:creator>
<category>Experimental Music</category>
<description><![CDATA[In the Scottish duo&rsquo;s album Inferno, a kaleidoscopic range builds up a rich and uncanny sense of atmosphere.

Inferno, by Boards of Canada, 
Warp Records

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


Few bands are as charged with...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/dayal-geeta/boards-of-canada</link>
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<title>Schiaparelli</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily LaBarge]]></dc:creator>
<category>Fashion</category>
<description><![CDATA[The V&amp;A shines a spotlight on the Italian designer&rsquo;s wild creations and collaborations with stars, celebrities, and Surrealist artists.

Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art, installation view. Courtesy V&amp;A South Kensington. &copy;...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/labarge-emily/schiaparelli</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/labarge_schiaparelli_image_1.jpg" length="546809" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Maddie&#x26;rsquo;s Secret</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa Anderson]]></dc:creator>
<category>Film</category>
<description><![CDATA[In his audacious directorial debut, comedian and actor John Early stars as an LA ingenue who relapses into bulimia after becoming a
 reluctant food influencer.

John Early as Maddie Ralph in Maddie&rsquo;s Secret. Courtesy Magnolia...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/anderson-melissa/maddies-secret</link>
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<title>Roc&#x26;iacute;o Garc&#x26;iacute;a</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Bryan-Wilson]]></dc:creator>
<category>Visual Art</category>
<description><![CDATA[To have and to withhold: an exhibition of the Cuban artist&rsquo;s works emphasizes the body&rsquo;s dynamism even when tied up, gagged, 
or otherwise confined.

Roc&iacute;o Garc&iacute;a: The Object of Power is Power, installation view. Photo:...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/bryan-wilson-julia/rocio-garcia</link>
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<title>Rosa Luxemburg&#x26;rsquo;s Herbarium</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Kabat]]></dc:creator>
<category>Nonfiction</category>
<description><![CDATA[Claudia Horn&rsquo;s book about one of capitalism&rsquo;s greatest critics presents a tantalizing vision of Luxemburg the eco-socialist.

Rosa Luxemburg&rsquo;s Herbarium: Radical Ecology and the Global Plantation, by Claudia Horn, OR Books, 225...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/kabat-jennifer/rosa-luxemburgs-herbarium</link>
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<title>We Were Forbidden</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessi Jezewska Stevens]]></dc:creator>
<category>Literature</category>
<description><![CDATA[A new volume collects three never-before-translated novellas by Jacqueline Harpman, author of I Who Have Never Known Men.

We Were Forbidden, by Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Ros Schwartz, Transit Books, 90 pages, $18.95


&bull;&nbsp;...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/stevens-jessi-jezewska/we-were-forbidden</link>
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<title>Paying Attention</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liz Brown]]></dc:creator>
<category>Nonfiction</category>
<description><![CDATA[In Lynne Tillman&rsquo;s latest collection of art writing, meaning may not arrive, but attention persists.

Paying Attention: Essays on Art and Culture, by Lynne Tillman, edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth Schambelan, 
David Zwirner Books,...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/brown-liz/paying-attention</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/brown_paying-attention_cover_image.jpg" length="583885" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Curse of the Seven Jackals</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Halter]]></dc:creator>
<category>Film</category>
<description><![CDATA[Imperfect yet heartfelt performances highlight the improvised nature of Chris Jolly&rsquo;s 2000 film project, shot using 1960s technology.

Kevin Barnes as Bernard and Jill Carnes as Helen in Curse of the Seven Jackals. Courtesy Anthology Film...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/halter-ed/curse-of-the-seven-jackals</link>
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<title>Carol Bove</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Krasinski]]></dc:creator>
<category>Visual Art</category>
<description><![CDATA[A twenty-five-year survey at the Guggenheim illuminates the run-up to the artist&rsquo;s fluid and gestural steel sculptures.

Carol Bove, installation view. Courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Photo: David Heald. &copy; Solomon R. Guggenheim...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/krasinski-jennifer/carol-bove</link>
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<title>The Maids</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Cote]]></dc:creator>
<category>Theater</category>
<description><![CDATA[Crazy, cruel, clueless, all of the above: in his new adaptation of Jean Genet&rsquo;s play, Kip Williams checks off every box.

Phia Saban as Solange and Lydia Wilson as Claire in The Maids. Courtesy St. Ann&rsquo;s Warehouse. Photo: Julieta...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/cote-david/the-maids</link>
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<title>My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Phillips]]></dc:creator>
<category>Literature</category>
<description><![CDATA[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&rsquo;s art.

My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, by Deborah Levy,...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/phillips-julie/my-year-in-paris-with-gertrude-stein</link>
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<title>I Love Boosters</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[K. Austin Collins]]></dc:creator>
<category>Film</category>
<description><![CDATA[On race and retail: Boots Riley&rsquo;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 Boosters. Courtesy Neon.

I Love Boosters, written and...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/collins-k-austin/i-love-boosters</link>
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<title>David Hammons and Jannis Kounellis</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Hannaham]]></dc:creator>
<category>Visual Art</category>
<description><![CDATA[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. &copy; On White Wall.

David Hammons and Jannis Kounellis, White Cube...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/hannaham-james/david-hammons-and-jannis-kounellis</link>
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<title>Michael</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harmony Holiday]]></dc:creator>
<category>Film</category>
<description><![CDATA[Antoine Fuqua constructs a biopic as comeback tour starring the King of Pop&rsquo;s nephew, Jaafar Jackson.

Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in Michael. Courtesy Lionsgate. Photo: Glen Wilson.

Michael, written by John Logan, directed by Antoine...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/holiday-harmony/michael</link>
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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>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/anderson_the-currents_image_1.jpg" length="363005" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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