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“In ‘My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein,’ the narrator sees Stein’s expatriation as an act of self-creation, and draws parallels with her own friendships and the ways in which she, Fanny, and Eva create each other.”— @jcfphillips on Deborah Levy’s latest https://t.co/ekhczzACvr

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“His near-constant attention to media’s omnipresence, its worrying ability to numb working-class consciousness into complicit submission—one of postmodernism’s old saws—proves invigorating.”—K. Austin Collins writes about Boots Riley’s “I Love Boosters” https://t.co/Sx4uJKEhxC

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Join us on Sat, 6/13, 4 pm, at Giorno Poetry Systems for a free celebration of “Repetition and Ruins: The Art of Radical Political Thinking” by Julie Evanoff of 4Columns & Dalie Giroux, feat. a discussion between Evanoff & our Senior Editor Ania Szremski! https://t.co/6PbatP5I1U

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“The paths of exploration Linda Goode Bryant advocated in the abstract tradition made the gallery a dynamic junction for new artists and new audiences, a theater of ideas.”—Darryl Pinckney reviews “Just Above Midtown” @MuseumModernArt, from the archive https://t.co/RGZ2oNHUOC

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“What should be unabashed gothic surrealism is made as palatable and stilted as annotations in a college thesis in ‘Michael,’ until we’re sold an abomination with a concert in the middle.”—@Harmony_Holiday reviews Antoine Fuqua’s new Michael Jackson biopic https://t.co/XSC5xQLLts

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“This show does something radical by juxtaposing their work throughout the space without identifying whose work is whose, or affixing a shred of contextual mumbo jumbo to the walls.”—James Hannaham reviews “David Hammons and Jannis Kounellis” @_WhiteCube https://t.co/T52s7zLP7S

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“Lonzi was always interested in getting as close as possible to the paradox and texture of things: art, language, relationships, women’s disenfranchisement, the grain of the voice itself.”—@quinnlatimer on “Self-portrait” by Carla Lonzi, from the archive https://t.co/3mdP8E5Sqz

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On Saturday, 6/13, 4 pm, join us at Giorno Poetry Systems on the LES for a launch party celebrating “Repetition and Ruins: The Art of Radical Political Thinking” by Julie Evanoff & Dalie Giroux! Free with RSVP; books available for purchase and signing! https://t.co/6PbatP5I1U

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Our final public event: Saturday, June 13, 4 pm, join us at Giorno Poetry Systems for a free book launch and party for “Repetition and Ruins” by our magazine’s own Julie Evanoff, in collaboration with Dalie Giroux! Books available for purchase and signing! https://t.co/6PbatP5I1U

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“The book is narrated by an author researching an essay on Stein’s life and work. But it’s also a lighthearted, free-associative novel about female friendship and literary inspiration.”— @jcfphillips on Deborah Levy’s “My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein” https://t.co/ekhczzACvr

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“In its compulsive showmanship, ‘I Love Boosters’ has the restlessness of a first film. But in its eagerness to say it all before the clock runs down, it comes across, not without some poignancy, as a last one.”—K. Austin Collins on Boots Riley’s latest https://t.co/Sx4uJKEhxC

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OUT NOW! ISSUE 404: @Harmony_Holiday on the ghosts haunting “Michael,” the new biopic on the King of Pop, directed by Antoine Fuqua; K. Austin Collins writes about consumption and extraction in Boots Riley’s second film, “I Love Boosters”; and more. https://t.co/smA9pOuqBd

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“In its compulsive showmanship, [it] has the restlessness of a first film. But in its buzzer-beater eagerness to say it all before the clock runs down, the movie comes across…as a last one.” —K. Austin Collins on I LOVE BOOSTERS, in this wk’s @4_columns. https://t.co/mHYyFkl7Y2

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OUT NOW: ISSUE 404! K. Austin Collins on Boots Riley’s “I Love Boosters,” @jcfphillips on Deborah Levy’s “My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein,” James Hannaham on David Hammons and Jannis Kounellis, & @Harmony_Holiday on Antoine Fuqua’s biopic “Michael” https://t.co/FMiVWciAB3

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“The readymade could be any old thing, Duchamp said, it just couldn’t be too remarkable. It only had to be selected, renamed, recontextualized.”—Alex Kitnick writes about @MuseumModernArt’s Marcel Duchamp retrospective https://t.co/Z4WE15nskF

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“The most successful episodes parcel out just enough backstory so that the viewer can imagine Lina’s past and the role it may or may not be playing in her mental malaise rather than infer an explicit cause and effect.”—@MelissEAnderson on “The Currents” https://t.co/ddmALS7rX2

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THIS FRIDAY: @jcfphillips on female friendship in “My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein” by Deborah Levy, K. Austin Collins on class solidarity in Boots Riley’s “I Love Boosters,” & more. Sign up for our free e-newsletter to get issues right in your inbox. https://t.co/zYpnqg57Mg

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ICYMI: ISSUE 403 is up for one more day! Don’t miss Alex Kitnick on context and chatter in the Marcel Duchamp retrospective @MuseumModernArt, Eric Banks on the afterglow of melancholy in “Light While There Is Light” by Keith Waldrop @nyrbclassics, & more. https://t.co/smA9pOtSLF

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“The exhibition is top form: tightly focused, unrepentantly scholarly, calling attention to what is rare or has been relegated to the archives, muscling new, meaningful space into the art historical record.”—@prettymetals on “Gothic By Design” @metmuseum https://t.co/aGDMw9baBF

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“What makes it so cunning is that it forgoes an outline of his own aesthetic formation. It focuses instead on the way his family’s quixotic drive imbues his own quest for meaning.”—Eric Banks on “Light While There Is Light” by Keith Waldrop @nyrbclassics https://t.co/gnVygnV7KX