At Paisley Park, the most palpable feeling isn’t of Prince, it’s of loneliness.

In the first war, Joseph Gray used his art to reveal his fellow soldiers. In the next war, he used it to hide them.

At 64, Nell Painter left a secure teaching position and went back to school to study art.

Sometimes the music that endures is the music a musician writes early in their career, when they’ve lived inside a bubble free from fans and critical expectations. Songwriter Liz Phair made a huge splash in 1993 with her debut album Exile in Guyville. The album spawned a devoted following and, thankfully, its own 33 1/3 book. […]

“What seemed to me life-saving was that I couldn’t lie. I couldn’t put a candy-coated gloss on anything.”

“The Blackist,” a column for Catapult’s magazine, introduces audiences to out-of-print novels written by black authors.

It’s a recognition that comes in the aisle of a grocery store.

Anthony Boudain passed away in Strasbourg, France, on Friday, June 8th, at age 61.

Neko Case talks about collaboration, women warriors, women inventors, men with excellent falsettos, losing her home to a fire, and feeling lucky in ‘a great sea of loss.’

After publishing her first book, Lauren Markham begins the long search for what she truly wanted after writing it.

Jazz radio host Phil Schaap uses his deep knowledge of mid-century jazz to keep the music alive.

The true story of the exact moment in the mid-Nineties when reality television morphed from its best self to its worst.

In a New Yorker profile, the MacArthur ‘genius’ considers her legacy.

The highs and lows of André Leon Talley’s important, trailblazing career are traced in a new documentary about his life.

Never underestimate the insidious, destructive power of gaslighting, especially public gaslighting.

“He once describe Miss Piggy to me as having come from a litter of 17 pigs, but her mother only had 16 nipples. And if you don’t know that about her, I don’t know that you can really express who she is.”

Arcis is a new art storage facility in Harlem that offers its clients a Foreign Trade Zone. But are they selling the art world a luxury tax haven, or just banking on confusion?

Emily Perper shares their love of dance with five great reads on ballet.

Honoring Peter Mayer, founder of Overlook Press, and one of “the stars of book publishing.”

In an essay for the Guardian, writer and journalist Margo Jefferson considers how the new multiculturalism of the House of Windsor has refreshed the royal house’s relevancy and appeal. Markle majored in international relations and theatre at Northwestern University, Illinois. Besides becoming an actor, she became a feminist who worked for UN Women as an advocate for political […]

Did Dana Schutz’s painting engage with her subject, Emmett Till, ethically and responsibly?

Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib reflects on why he still fasts during Ramadan.

It has already, time and time again.

A woman makes sand-pear pie with her grandmother and remembers a family ritual.

Margot Kidder passed away at her home in Montana on Sunday, May 13th, 2018 at age 69.

How one London man transformed his house into a work of art, and a physical love story to the people he’s lost.

Artists are always getting screwed, even by other artists.

Lawson’s photographs capture the divinity and stateliness of its working-class subjects.

The singer’s latest performance helps expand the possibilities of what it looks like to be a black thinking person.

Looking for an Instagrammable way to spend your Saturday? Mediate your imagination through the forced whimsy of the Dream Machine.