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4Columns is an arts criticism website designed for everyone. The name reflects its weekly offering of four fresh columns, each showcasing a unique voice and viewpoint. These columns collectively provide an insightful and engaging look at modern culture, covering a range of topics from film and literature to theater and the visual arts.

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Beatriz Cortez x rafa esparza

1 week ago | 4columns.org | Aruna D’Souza

Beatriz Cortez x rafa esparza Aruna D’Souza In a new exhibition by the two artists, a spectacular collision of land and tradition, borders and migration. Beatriz Cortez x rafa esparza: Earth and Cosmos, installation view. Courtesy Art at Americas Society. Photo: Arturo Sanchez.
Perspective(s)

1 week ago | 4columns.org | Brian Dillon

Perspective(s) Brian Dillon Laurent Binet’s book combines metafiction, baroque allegory, erudite citation, genre pillage, and the novel of aesthetic ideas.
The Shrouds

1 week ago | 4columns.org | Melissa Anderson

The Shrouds Melissa Anderson Memento mori, memento amori: in David Cronenberg’s latest, a bereft widower mourns his dead wife with an invention that enables the monitoring of her decaying body. Vincent Cassel as Karsh and Diane Kruger as Terry in The Shrouds. Courtesy Sideshow and Janus Films.
Hold Everything Dear

2 weeks ago | 4columns.org | Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Hold Everything Dear Kaelen Wilson-Goldie A new reissue of John Berger’s post–September 11 writings on art and activism.
Suzanne Valadon

2 weeks ago | 4columns.org | Beatrice Loayza

Suzanne Valadon Beatrice Loayza Painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, influenced by Gauguin, mentored by Degas: an exhibition of over 170 works by the turn-of-the-century French artist. Suzanne Valadon, installation view. Courtesy Centre Pompidou. Photo: Audrey Laurans. Pictured, far left: Jeune fille faisant du crochet, ca. 1892.
The Innerview

2 weeks ago | 4columns.org | Melissa Anderson

The Innerview Melissa Anderson Rupture, rapture, running through fields: anything and everything goes in Richard Beymer’s hallucinatory 1973 film. Richard Beymer in The Innerview. Courtesy Anthology Film Archives.
Grand Tour

3 weeks ago | 4columns.org | Sukhdev Sandhu

Grand Tour Sukhdev Sandhu Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’s strangely eurythmic reimagining of Somerset Maugham’s 1930 novel The Gentleman in the Parlour. Gonçalo Waddington as Edward in Grand Tour. Courtesy CMPR. Grand Tour, directed by Miguel Gomes, now playing at Film at Lincoln Center, New York City• • •To Asia? A splendid idea. Very, very splendid. Time was when all sorts of Brits would head East. To Calcutta, Bangkok, Rangoon. The hope? Disorientation.
The Picture of Dorian Gray

3 weeks ago | 4columns.org | Rhoda Feng

The Picture of Dorian Gray Rhoda Feng In Kip Williams’s innovative production of Oscar Wilde’s novel, Sarah Snook takes on all twenty-six of the work’s characters with virtuosic finesse. Sarah Snook in The Picture of Dorian Gray. © Marc Brenner.
Black Bag

1 month ago | 4columns.org | Melissa Anderson

Black Bag Melissa Anderson Sex, lie detectors, and national security: in Steven Soderbergh’s latest, the intrigue of espionage is matched by the mysteries of marriage. Michael Fassbender as George Woodhouse in Black Bag. Photo: Claudette Barius / Focus Features. © Focus Features.
American Job

1 month ago | 4columns.org | Aruna D’Souza

American Job Aruna D’Souza An exhibition at ICP tells the people’s history of US labor from 1940 to 2011. American Job: 1940–2011, installation view. Courtesy International Center of Photography.