Bryce Dessner is best known as one of the guitarists for The National, playing alongside his brother Aaron. But Bryce has also had a notable career as a composer of
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Yuja Wang long ago established herself as one of the world's most dazzling pianists. The Chinese stylist is super fast yet has a nuanced touch that belies her py
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It has been referred to as the gay Super Bowl, and this year, the Oscars lived up to that label. While the nominees and telecast have been accused of lacking divers
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A poem of address, a poem for what's next, generations of poets, generations of musicians. A city of artists, a freestyle fellowship, an academy of architects?? New
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Worlds collide for the Lethal Amounts family at the NSFW intersection of fashion, spectacle, body modification, sexual liberation, club culture and photography in t
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An ongoing series of Q&As with contemporary Los Angeles-based artists. This week we interview Mikael B., a native of Denmark whose love for Wild Style graffiti and t
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There are a lot of cooks in the art and design kitchen that is Metropolitan Sets, from presenters 1stdibs, to Twentieth and its fine-art division THE NEW, to exhibi
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On a recent Sunday, New Yorkbased painter Jordan Casteel dropped by the Museum of Contemporary Art to lead a tour of her two works included in the exhibition One Day
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"Black girls and black women are problems. That is not the same as causing problems," Tressie McMillan Cottom writes in her trenchant new collection of essays, Thic
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Animals are as void of conscience as predatory lenders, as persistent as addicts, as ritualistic as priests, Amy Raasch writes about her one-woman multimedia piece T
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In the lead-up to Frieze Los Angeles, discussion centered on knowns and unknowns. While L.A. is known for its rich community of artists, its strength as a market re
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On Friday, Feb. 15, one of the most action-packed seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars came to an end with a historic tie. For the first time in Drag Race he
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