Lalla Essaydi’s photographic art depicting Arab women emerges from a simple yet powerful idea for the image: women, their clothing, their...

Over one year has passed since Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez passed away, leaving behind one of the richest and most beloved...

In Cuba, the journey to implement public music education has paralleled the country’s battle for compulsory education, and nationhood...

BuzzFeed brought some incredibly important journalism to the world this spring—they ran the numbers on how much money Joey owed Chandler...

In urban spaces, art is everywhere, from hastily executed graffiti on walls and bridges to prominent full-wall murals. Urban art is part...

In releasing his new album “To Pimp a Butterfly,” Kendrick Lamar topped off a year of political and racial turmoil with an appropriately...

On Friday March 13th poet Kenneth Goldsmith performed a piece at Brown University entitled “Michael Brown’s Body.” A remixed recitation...

Amtrak has long been a political lightning rod. Founded in 1971 as a way for the government to subsidize America’s declining railways,...

The process by which artists cycle through neighborhoods of American cities has become so prevalent it has its own name: the SoHo effect....

This past week, MSBNC announced it would be canceling both the Reid Report and Ronan Farrow Daily, two of its daytime shows that had been...

Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the Supreme Court, the same Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of such cases as Roe V. Wade, United States...

ABC’s Bob Woodruff is one of the few American journalists who has been allowed inside North Korean borders. He has been to the country a...

In the 2014 fiscal year, the United States allotted one-hundredth of one percent of its discretionary spending to the arts, at a little...

SOMA, a bastion of contemporary, didactic art and subversive film, is an independent art gallery, coined ‘residencia,’ in the...

On September 26th, 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal teacher-training school, a rural teachers’ college in the Mexican state...

Thoroughly mixed into the cultural Kool-Aid of the United States, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating system —...

“First letter of Cuba, is an open letter [sic] / Born in Miami, right on time / Scarface, El Mariel, Cuban crime [sic] / Here’s the...

After reports surfaced that NBC was seriously courting Jon Stewart, a comedian and the host of The Daily Show, to host the network’s...

When The Economist issued its review on Ed Baptist’s The Half of the Story Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American...

This past week, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, was lambasted in a series of articles for...