Quavo, a rapper from the Atlanta hip-hop trio Migos, wants a featured verse on the United States’ national anthem. A Migos fan started a...

“There’s something really dangerous happening to us out there now. We’re slowly getting split up into two different Americas,” Bruce...

Rock is one of the most glorified music genres in Western society. By many, it’s considered to be not only more artistically creative,...

Vanessa German’s signature sculptures, or “contemporary power figures”, charge in like an army of truth, sorrow and resilience; standing...

The Internet is, among many things, the new cultural frontier. Its egalitarian nature–letting anyone with access create, promote, and...

No other ancient artifact has been the subject of more intense, decades-long international debate than the Elgin Marbles. Since the 1980s...

A line delivered at the 69th annual Emmys this year had viewers questioning if they were watching an awards show or the dystopian Black...

“Viva Arte Viva is a Biennale designed with the artists, by the artists, and for the artists,” proclaims Christine Macel, curator of the...

Exactly a century ago, in 1917, myriad forces in Russia conspired to topple the Czar, overthrowing an autocratic system of government...

The many parallels between cultural expression and political processes suggest that, whenever there is a hostile political climate, the...

A journalist investigates a government official and loses his job. He returns to find police have raided his home. Later, they beat him....

In the fall of 2014, hundreds of high school students in Jefferson County, Colorado, walked out of class to protest their newly elected...

Donald Trump’s election has elicited resistance marked by activism and political opposition spanning the entire partisan spectrum, from...

Starting in November 2017, the Tate Modern in London will host an exhibit called Red Star Over Russia, and will display artwork made by...

President Donald Trump, before and since his inauguration, has repeatedly condemned artists and journalists, describing the cast of...

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen….” So begins George Orwell’s dystopian classic, 1984,...

Early last year, the South Korean government blared K-pop – Korean pop music – across its border with North Korea in what seemed to be a...

Almost every year since its inception in 1901, the Nobel Committee has handpicked the figures that their voters believe represent the...

In a notable scene from Straight Outta Compton, members of the hip-hop group N.W.A. sat at a press conference, answering questions from a...

If the Nobel Prize in Literature was established to celebrate words that empower, then the Swedish Academy’s selection of Bob Dylan is...