In Brief
After Growing Scrutiny, UK’s Sackler Trust Suspends Philanthropic Donations
The suspension follows last week’s announcements that the Guggenheim and Tate will no longer accept funds from the Sackler family.
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Art
Sculptures Confront the Brutal History of Racialized Surveillance in the US
On view at MIT List Visual Arts Center, artist Kapwani Kiwanga’s Safe Passage features powerful meditations on antebellum “lantern laws” and The Negro Motorist Green Book.
When Vija Celmins Holds the Shifting World Still
Celmins’s images of oceans and galaxies are powerfully personal and intimate, even if they are mysteriously deserted and distant.
Art
A New Swiss Museum Shows Women’s Art Through a Multivalent Lens
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women at the Museum Susch suggests that letting women be multivalent is a critical piece of letting women be seen.
Required Reading
This week, a newly authenticated van Gogh, critics hate Thomas Heatherwick’s “Vessel,” US soft power and the literary avant-garde, National Museum of the American Indian’s magazine is available for free online, and more.
Music • Weekend
James Blake Grows Up
Assume Form is Blake’s first album to acknowledge his status as a pop presence, but it also feels like an attempt to broaden his range, to correct the way he became associated with generic melancholy.
Art • Weekend
Color Is the Carrier of Emotion
Although it is very early in Jule Korneffel’s career, she has moved into a territory where color and materiality outweigh discursive content.
Art • Weekend
Reconsidering Saul Steinberg
In an art world that celebrates the work of Raymond Pettibon, it seems to me that Steinberg deserves another look.
Art • Weekend
Reviving a Forgotten Artist of the Occult
Today, more than 100 million copies of Pamela Colman Smith’s Tarot card designs, the Rider-Waite-Smith Deck, are in circulation in over 20 countries, making it the most popular set ever made.
Art • Weekend
A Painter With a Purpose
In Evan Fugazzi’s paintings we are given the pleasure of experiencing how each color helps to define the others.
Art • Weekend
An Artist’s Commentary on the Damages of Men
The most shocking thing about Sarah McCoubrey’s paintings is their startling and deeply unfashionable, unapologetic beauty.