Music
Synthesizer Gloss and Bubblefunk Guitar
With their new album After Laughter, Paramore’s rebel yells have morphed into breezy hooks.
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Art
Richard Brown Lethem's Painted Afflictions
"Throughout his career, he has freely mixed the figurative with the abstract, unwilling to align himself with any school or -ism."
Books
Mind Music: Reading Clark Coolidge
Jack Kerouac’s writing opened up the literary horizons for Coolidge — horizons where a musician’s intuition and technique could be expressed in writing and thinking.
Art
These Four Painters Won't Be Ignored Any Longer
A new exhibition tells us what we’ve been missing in the work of Marina Adams, Paul Feeley, Joanna Pousette-Dart, and Leon Polk Smith.
Art
The Storm Clouds Behind Louis Armstrong’s Smile
The Fourth of July is a time to remember the great jazzman's quiet defiance.
Art
The Storm Clouds Behind Louis Armstrong’s Smile
The Fourth of July is a time to remember the great jazzman's quiet defiance.
Interview
The Power and Complexity of Children’s Art: An Interview with Brian Belott
Children’s scribbles may appear random but they often repeat shapes, like the mandala or the Greek cross, that suggest the beginning of language.
Interview
The Power and Complexity of Children’s Art: An Interview with Brian Belott
Children’s scribbles may appear random but they often repeat shapes, like the mandala or the Greek cross, that suggest the beginning of language.
Art
Lezley Saar’s Melancholic Poetics of Identity
For decades, Saar has explored the emotional conflict underlying identity from the perspective of a biracial woman.
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Lezley Saar’s Melancholic Poetics of Identity
For decades, Saar has explored the emotional conflict underlying identity from the perspective of a biracial woman.
Art
The Joys and Terrors of an Outsider Artist
While Susan Te Kahurangi King has never consciously worked in or against a fine art tradition, her work is surely original.
Art
The Joys and Terrors of an Outsider Artist
While Susan Te Kahurangi King has never consciously worked in or against a fine art tradition, her work is surely original.