“Ethan Philbrick described Russell to me as ‘this hovering figure of lost lineages,’ and King’s book proves that he was generally ten to twenty years ahead of the crowd.”—Sasha Frere-Jones on “Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, A Life” by Richard King 4columns.org/frere-jones-sa…

“Many African American artists shared James Baldwin’s belief that Paris offered a respite from the racism—and, in the case of some, the homophobia—of their home country.”—Aruna D’Souza on “Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962” 4columns.org/d-souza-aruna/…

THIS FRIDAY: Johanna Fateman on technologized sorcery in Joan Jonas’s retrospective MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, Julie Phillips @jcfphillips.bsky.social on menopause and hot sex in Miranda July’s novel “All Fours,” and more. Subscribe now (it’s free!) to get the issue straight to your inbox. 4columns.org/follow

ICYMI: ISSUE 322 is up for one more day! Don’t miss Aruna D’Souza’s review of “Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962,” blipsterrunoffdotcom on Legacy Russell’s technological-determinist approach in “Black Meme” Verso Books, and more. 4columns.org

“Like the work of David Cronenberg or Richard Kelly, two pioneering genre-subverters evoked by ‘I Saw the TV Glow,’ the film—constructed like a puzzle for its own future fan base to pore over—rewards a rewatch.”—ɹǝʇlɐH pƎ reviews Jane Schoenbrun’s latest 4columns.org/halter-ed/i-sa…

“She insightfully discusses online success in terms of efficiency, not just cultural or monetary value, positing important new questions about what blackness might do.”—blipsterrunoffdotcom on 2010s black internet in Legacy Russell’s “Black Meme” Verso Books 4columns.org/dean-aria/blac…

“The luminous, sensitive pop on the album was recorded years after Russell had abandoned his sleepy Iowa hometown of Oskaloosa. But Iowa figures heavily in the lyrics.”—Geeta Dayal writes about Arthur Russell’s “Iowa Dream” Steve Knutson, from the archive 4columns.org/dayal-geeta/ar…

“To walk with Russell is to perform a cycle of replanting and replaying, a loving gluing-together that accepts his vault of echoes as is.”—Sasha Frere-Jones reviews the new book “Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, A Life” by Richard King Anthology 4columns.org/frere-jones-sa…

'Schoenbrun effectively expresses the repression, awakening, and ultimate collapse of Owen’s psyche through the film’s lurching disjunctions and temporal confusions.'

Ed Halter (ɹǝʇlɐH pƎ) on I SAW THE TV GLOW in this week's 4Columns

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“A number of the artists wanted to gain distance from the increasingly dogmatic turn toward a pure abstraction that AbEx represented.”—Aruna D’Souza writes about “Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962” at NYU’s Grey Art Museum 4columns.org/d-souza-aruna/…

“These works demonstrate that there is a fine line not only between eroticism and violence, but between inveighing against toxic masculinity and, through complete immersion, unwittingly participating in it.”—Nico Israel on Leon Golub, from the archive 4columns.org/israel-nico/le…

“ ‘TV Glow’ delivers a deconstructed horror film that symbolically explores trans experience from an internal perspective in ways rarely before seen in general-release titles.”—ɹǝʇlɐH pƎ writes about “I Saw the TV Glow,” directed by Jane Schoenbrun 4columns.org/halter-ed/i-sa…

“The book is at its best when she’s focused on a historical task, explaining the public’s interactions with blackness in the media, using testimonies and facts to sum up the pitiful lack of progress made.”—blipsterrunoffdotcom on “Black Meme” by Legacy Russell 4columns.org/dean-aria/blac…

OUT NOW! ISSUE 322: Sasha Frere-Jones on genre-defying format of “Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, A Life,” Richard King’s new book Anthology; ɹǝʇlɐH pƎ on the rewards of multiple viewings of Jane Schoenbrun’s film “I Saw the TV Glow”; and more. 4columns.org

This is a lovely piece.

“To walk with Russell is to perform a cycle of replanting and replaying” 🌾

missing writing, I wrote a review! 4columns.org/dean-aria/blac…

A new book captures the vibes of visionary composer and cellist Arthur Russell. 4columns.org/frere-jones-sa… 'More Russells will sprout, each as high as the corn in Iowa.' Sasha Frere-Jones #arthurrussell

I saw I Saw The TV Glow and I said what I said about what I saw

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I wrote about Arthur Russell, who changed my life twenty years ago, yesterday, a month ago, and tomorrow. 4columns.org/frere-jones-sa…