‘It will haunt you for ever’: Howardena Pindell’s film installation Rope/Fire/Water, 2020. Courtesy the artist, Garth Greenan Gallery and Victoria Miro‘It will haunt you for ever’: Howardena Pindell’s film installation Rope/Fire/Water, 2020. Courtesy the artist, Garth Greenan Gallery and Victoria MiroThe ObserverArtReviewKettle’s Yard, Cambridge Tragedy, horror and everyday racism are countered with fearless grace by the American artist in this five-decade retrospective There is a painting in this beautiful yet devastating survey of the American artist Howardena Pindell that looks, at first, like old-fashioned pointillism.

Paul NewmanSotheby’s has assembled nearly 400 items from the holdings of the star couple showing a relationship of intense passion You, too, can have a piece of Newman’s own … everything. Nearly 400 items from the personal holdings of the legendary actor Paul Newman and his wife and former co-star Joanne Woodward are on offer at Sotheby’s latest celebrity estate sale. James Dean auction offers unseen items showing new side to starRead moreThe movie stars and enduring lovebirds met on the Broadway set of Picnic in 1953, and lived in what sounds like marital bliss for some 50 years.

FamilyRaised by two mothers, Jesse Toksvig-Stewart was surprised to find every baby record book assumed a two-parent family meant a mother and a father. So she made one herself for her new baby sister.When Jesse Toksvig-Stewart was born 27 years ago, her parents crossed the words mummy and daddy out of their baby record book and wrote Mum and Mumma instead. “The book is full of black lines because so much of it wasn’t relevant to our family,” says Jesse.

Glenn Greenwald on security and libertyUS national security This article is more than 10 years oldNSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and othersThis article is more than 10 years old Top-secret Prism program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple and Facebook Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007 Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks

Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radioPodcastsReviewTristan Redman uncovers a tangled web of secrets, lies and murder; Will Smith goes back to his his hip-hop roots; and Shaun Keaveny makes everything seem better Ghost Story | Wondery Class of 88 with Will Smith | Wondery Shaun Keaveny’s Daily Grind | Global Ghost Story, from Wondery, is a strange new seven-part show. It starts out in familiar spooky-tale territory. Then it performs a lane hop into another genre before zigzagging and turning back on itself to become something else entirely.