THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR ARTISTS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY ALBUM AND TRACK SALES AS PROVIDED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS PROVIDED BY LUMINATE, STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA ...

A letter signed by 463 playwrights, poets, dancers, visual artists and others pushes back against new grant requirements that bar the promotion of diversity or “gender ideology.” By Michael ...

For artist Sougwen Chung, AI is an opportunity to embrace uncertainty. Many artists worry about the encroachment of artificial intelligence on artistic creation. But Sougwen Chung, a nonbinary ...

For him, the main goal of the part-time work was not making ends meet. It was research for his main pursuit: using art to advocate for better treatment of people in menial jobs in a city with one ...

DC is bringing the all-star creative team of writer Matt Fraction and artist Jorge Jiménez together for a fresh Batman relaunch. A new Batman #1 is coming this September with a throwback blue and ...

At first glance, you would be forgiven for thinking that the work of contemporary Indonesian artist Citra Sasmita was made hundreds of years ago. From afar, her embroideries and paintings could ...

In her live/workspace at Midway Artists Studios, she has been creating a large sculpture reflecting her South Korean roots. It includes Korean architectural elements, a tree-trunk base ...

As Billboard celebrates the top-performing artists, albums and songs of the first 25 years of the century since 2000, browse below, the acts with the most No. 1s on the Streaming Songs chart in ...

She later moved on to neo-soul and R&B music as a solo artist with albums including “Black Diamond” in 1999 and “Mahogany Soul” in 2001. In a 2020 interview with “The Breakfast Club ...

A prolific and decorated artist, Parker had long planned her own death. She wanted to leave this world on her terms. Trish Parker settled into the back seat of a rented Mercedes for a final trip ...

Art has always been a battleground. In a moment when the arts are under siege—state-sanctioned censorship, gutted funding, and anti-DEI mandates threatening to erase marginalized voices—Black ...

Swift was first named IFPI global recording artist of the year in 2014 and then in 2019, 2022 and 2023, the most times for any performer since the award was introduced 12 years ago.