Monday, April 20, 1981, was artist Joan Miró's 88th birthday. It was also the day that Mayor Jane Byrne pulled a cord to ...

Adrian’s work bridges cultures, weaving together the spiritual traditions of Japan and Brazil into a unique musical tapestry.

"Porter's musical execution was so avant garde that it's still fresh ... then all of a sudden it would be as if a curtain came down over his face," recalls Patricia Morison, who played the ...

An exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery spotlights The Face magazine’s daring style and era-defining image-making ...

Alvin Lucier died in 2021. Now his brain has been "resurrected" and is making music at an art exhibition in Australia A team of artists and scientists have joined forces to create a lab-grown ...

Through some 400 works, including jewelry, textiles, drawings and paintings, the show tells the story of an artist whom Reifert calls “a hub” of the avant-garde scene in the 1920s and ’30s ...

Although the face veil is a simple piece of cloth worn by a minority of Muslim women, it has become a political symbol synonymous with oppression, patriarchy and servitude. At least, thatâÄôs the ...

Attending New York's Queens College, and studying privately with renowned violinist Leroy Jenkins, Bang became a key member of the dynamic New York avant-garde scene of the '70s. Forming his own group ...

The 2019 Man Booker International Prize long list has been announced, with Chinese author Can Xue's fantastical Love in the New Millennium among the nominees Deng Xiaohua, the author behind the Can ...

Try these speed reading exercises to improve reading. You can also learn something about the news. There are reading texts at different levels. You can choose the reading speed of each text. If one ...