Books
A Graphic Novel Revives a Script by Salvador Dalí and the Marx Brothers
A new book shows it is time to realize a movie script conceived by Salvador Dalí and the Marx brothers in 1937.
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Art
Hilarious Plays and Ceramics Spun on Wheels at the Santa Monica Art Walk
On Saturday, crowds packed the airplane hangars converted into studios to see the works of artists who opened their spaces for the day.
Art
Learning the Art of the Condolence Letter
This lesson on crafting letters of condolence will take place at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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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.
Announcement
Apply Today for New Banff Centre Visual Arts Programs
Spend summer or fall in the Canadian Rocky Mountains at an artist residency or symposium for professional artists, curators, and arts researchers.
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.
Art
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.
Art
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
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
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
Reconsidering Saul Steinberg
In an art world that celebrates the work of Raymond Pettibon, it seems to me that Steinberg deserves another look.