I first heard Alice Coltrane on the album after which this book is named. It had been the first time she had recorded with husband John, although the LP was not released until after his death. Like ...

I have only cried twice at a museum. The first time was standing in front of Bisa Butler’s larger-than-life quilt portrait of Salt-N-Pepa at an exhibition in New York. The second time was in the elegy ...

Too often framed as a tragic icon or a victim of domesticity, the poet remade herself and her work at the start of the 60s, as a new collection will show ...

Researchers have uncovered the world’s oldest known cave art—a 67,800-year-old hand stencil in Indonesia. The unusual, claw-like design hints at early symbolic thinking and possibly spiritual beliefs.

Experience the Exodus like never before with this graphic novel Haggadah, which makes the story immediate, visual, and unforgettable.

Years before the rise of Instagram, Banksy figured out that the key to real influence lay in not in being famous, exactly, but in being anonymous. The mystery of his identity has long ...

The national mammal of the United States is getting in on America’s 250th birthday celebration. Three bison statues cast in ...

Wandering through Chicago’s streets, in a city of art, architects and deep-dish delights, the greatest luxury is being alone.

Antigone” gave us the original “bad girl,” but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles’ ideas about democracy and theater new?

The biggest mystery in the art world has apparently been solved: Banksy has been unmasked as a bespectacled middle-aged man from Bristol, England called Robin Gunningham.

In the quiet, rain-washed village of Boralugoda, where narrow streams slip silently through thick green undergrowth and the air carries the scent of wet earth, a remarkable story of science, ...

Dave Grohl has followed the career of this icon as a means of ensuring he sprinkles his music with the same amount of magic. Read more here.