One of the joys of the internet, and of Twitter --horrible social media platform though it sometimes can be--is the serendipity of coming a...

Kendrick Lamar (pitchfork.com) Yesterday, the Pulitzer Prize Foundation announced its 2018 honorees , and this year list brought a part...

Florence Price The treasures of the past may seem lost, but often enough, they are merely forgotten, or hidden. Such is the case with ...

South African trumpeter and musician Hugh Masekela at St. Lucia Jazz festival, May 2012. (Reuters/Andrea De Silva) This past week broug...

In 1973, Doubleday published  Kenward Elmslie 's  (1929-) experimental, poetic prose collection The Orchid Stories. It is almost impos...

In addition to being friends  Mendi + Keith Obadike  are among my favorite contemporary artists. At one of their online sites , BlackArt...

Pierre Boulez, by Carlo Bavagnoli I've been of two minds about the recent deaths of two leading figures in the world of music, Pier...

Harper Lee and her novel cover for Go Set a Watchman (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/ Getty Images. Courtesy of VICE & HarperCollins) A...

July is racing by. I was wondering when the brutal summer heat would finally appear and today, it settled on our doorsteps. I no longer gal...

(Randolph Denard)  Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 - June 11, 2015) succeeded, through his extraordinary musical gifts and linguistic inven...

It felt momentarily like a light went out in the world when Riley B.--"B. B."--King (b. September 16, 1925, near Itta Bena, Miss...

Among the many treasures New York City offers year-round is the weekly  Word for Word series at the outdoor  Bryant Park Reading Room , ...

Kei Miller  SOME DEFINITIONS FOR SONG the speech of birds, as in birdsong, but with exceptions. Pigeons do not sing. Vultures do n...

The set, designed by Georg Baselitz and Court Wilson In 1927, two years before the US Stock Market crash , on the eve of the Great Depressio...