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This week, the newly selected Theodore Roosevelt President Library design, Cuties outrage, philanthropy’s difficult relationship to social justice, climate migration in the US, and more.
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Music • Weekend
Taylor Swift’s Quarantine Folktales
Swift’s latest, Folklore, really is about being a sad rich person stuck at home.
Essays • Weekend
Albert Murray Talking Modernism, Race, and Jazz
Murray came of age at a time when brutal circumstances coincided with buoyant Modernity.
Art • Weekend
An Old Painter Stares at His Hands
Georg Baselitz reflects on his own aging hands through the prism of all the art he has seen.
Cosima von Bonin Takes Cute Art Seriously
Implicit throughout the artist’s latest show is the tension between the feeling of failure and the struggle to be recognized and taken seriously, rather than erased.
Art • Weekend
Robert Mangold’s Emotional Optics
With his recent works, Mangold underscores a consciousness of mortality that he meets with a gracefulness that is breathtaking.
Art • Weekend
A Painter for a Heated World
Given his red-dominated palette, I don’t think it is implausible to suggest that one of Frank Holliday’s subjects is conflagration — a world consumed by fire.
In India, Women Artists Are Making Salient Work During the Pandemic
As the country entered lockdown, an urgent need to stay hopeful and inspired through the crisis emerged.
In Brief
Can You Spot a Social Media Troll?
This website is designed to help you learn more about trolls and how to spot them online.
Books
This Satire of Sports, Activism, and Policing Might Make You Laugh and Cry
Set in the aftermath of a Super Bowl victory, Ben Passmore’s Sports is Hell spotlights human folly, displaying the US at its worst and most ridiculous.
In Brief
Mellon Foundation Distributes $24M to Mid-size Museums Affected by the Pandemic
The Art Museum Futures Fund will award between $600,000 to $5.5 million to 12 mid-sized institutions across the nation, including the Brooklyn Museum and El Museo del Barrio.
In Brief
Rabkin Foundation Awards $20K Grants to Nine Arts Journals
The Brooklyn Rail, Burnaway, and Arts.Black are among the publications supported by the award.