Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing ...

Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys” features works of Black art on display until July 13.

The word has long lived as a synonym for disgust. And that's why this current youthful reclaiming of the word can be seen a quiet triumph. Decades after Germaine Greer gave up trying to reclaim that ...

The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year with a series ...

The latest: Rock star movie producer is big in Japan, group shows off moods, Native films at SXSW, open bidding for art.

Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick ...

Late music critic and historian Michael Corcoran left behind a book that explains Austin's music scene and a bit on SXSW.

She’d been signed to one of the country’s biggest music labels, the only one chosen ... She arrived alone in Seoul, not speaking a word of Korean. Training days ran 15 hours.

Holi, Nowruz and Women's History Month at events for all ages; spend an afternoon drawing; or enjoy concerts from chamber to punk.

By Gina Cherelus Last year, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art invited a ... Mitchell recalled a white friend’s astonishment after visiting Atlanta and seeing how Black people dressed up ...

If you walked into any of the funky old blues joints of Oakland — Mile Hi Club, Esther’s Orbit Room, the Continental Club — throughout the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, you were likely to run into Lee ...

With his latest novel, Entitlement, he asks: Can wealth inequality make you lose your mind?