The Weekend Guide: January 29-31

The Weekend Guide: January 29-31

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HEAR: ANTI by Rihanna
With streamed music, release dates are ambiguous and violable. Wednesday night the most anticipated album of the last, say, three years leaked. ANTI is a conflicted mix of the artist's vulnerable and tough sides and styles-take songs like "Close to You" and "Needed Me" respectively-furthering the pop singer's enigmatic grip on our collective imagination. It's available now exclusively on TIDAL and will release widely next Friday.

READ: Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine by Diane Williams
Stories as short as five lines read like enormously powerful incantations when Diane Williams pens them. With the right words and clever plotlines, the acclaimed writer places themes worthy of novels in a few paragraphs or pages. Each story unfurls like a meditation on the poetry and absurdity of life.

25 Women: Essays on Their Art by Dave Hickey
Art critic and public provocateur Dave Hickey has bristled some reviewers with his compilation of exhibition notes and criticism about contemporary women artists. Although his perspective is flagrantly un-PC and occasionally even condescending to the artists he claims to esteem, the "bad boy of the art world" writes sharply about his fascinating subjects.

STREAM: World of Tomorrow on NetflixAt just 16 minutes, this animated Oscar-nominated short follows a young girl who meets a clone of herself from 227 years in the future. The girl learns about life, its romances, trials and art, from the clone who recounts emotions and events that time and technological advances cannot alter.

GIVE: Jan Leslie cuff links
Looking for a perfectly odd Valentine's Day gift for your lovable weirdo? Jan Leslie's strange cuff links come as lobster claws, basketball nets and monkeys doing all sorts of idiosyncratic activities. Some sets even have moveable parts.

SEE: 45 YearsA happy marriage between an enviable couple is thrust into tumult by a sudden reminder of a deceased former lover. British actors Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay cunningly evolve their formerly assured characters, Kate and Geoff Mercer, into spouses uncertain about the present on account of the definitiveness of the past.

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