Music
Digging Into Chile’s Punk Underground
With Hueso Records, artist Iván Navarro wants to bring back the music of his youth from legendary Chilean indie and punk bands like María Sonora.
Music
Interview
Take a Musical Trip Through Sixties Surrealism
Curator Dan Nadel talks about creating a playlist for the Whitney Museum's latest exhibition, inspired by a time when history was inextricable from its soundtrack.
Features
Listening to the Paintings of Serj Tankian
An exhibition of artworks by the System of a Down frontman at the Armenian Museum of America pairs his works with music he composed especially for them.
Art Review
The Visual Artist Who Made Radiohead
An exhibition of Stanley Donwood’s work in collaboration with frontman Thom Yorke charts how the distinctive look and feel of the band’s album covers took shape.
Features
The Artist Freeing Museums’ Captive Instruments
In an interview with Hyperallergic, Satch Hoyt shared his process of "un-muting" African musical objects long relegated to storage.
Art Review
The Experimental Composers Who Inspired a Generation of Artists
Arthur Russell and Julius Eastman’s influence is felt in the echoes between the present and the past, the dead and the living, and, most prominently, each other.
Music
Swedish Punk Band Viagra Boys’s Absurdist Send-Up of the Art World
A video for the new single “Man Made of Meat” riffs on the readymade, satirizes zombie formalism, and parodies action painting.
Music
What the Art World Can Learn From Solange
Eldorado Ballroom, a three-night event of performances, was a masterclass in curation.
Book Review
What Does Depeche Mode Have to Do With Vietnamese Americans in California?
For the so-called “1.5 Generation,” music allowed an escape from the binary between home and school, Vietnamese traditions and American culture.
News
Charli XCX Says She Chose Brat Cover Art to “Save Money”
The pop star revealed the real reason for the iconic design.
Art
A Queens Show Celebrates NYC’s Latine and African Music History
At the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, an exhibition pays tribute to genres such as jazz, reggae, and bomba through visual mediums.
News
Wu-Tang Clan Album, Among the World's Rarest, Heads to Museum
The Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania will hold ticketed listening parties for the single-edition Once Upon a Time in Shaolin (2015).