Walker Mimms
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Yasuaki Shimizu, a Japanese Sax Master, Takes North America
The composer and saxophonist Yasuaki Shimizu is at home in free jazz, classical and art pop. Finally touring North America, he’s going big by staying...
Why Is Hollywood Obsessed With Architects? ‘The Brutalist’ Gives Us a Hint.
The trope of the embattled auteur exerting their will is too tempting for filmmakers to ignore.
How a Forgotten TV Show Forever Changed the Way We Look at Art
Weekly from 1956 to ’63, a charismatic painter named Lorser Feitelson filled America’s living rooms with the first televised history of art. We’re still exploring...
A Newly Translated Oral History Reveals Krautrock’s Antifascist Roots
Christoph Dallach’s book explores how Nazism, a postwar German identity crisis and anti-authoritarian youth movements spurred some of the most daring experiments of 1970s music.
Marian Zazeela, an Artist of Light and Design, Dies at 83
She pivoted from painting to lighting exhibitions, performance art, graphic design and minimalist music, performed with her husband, the composer La Monte Young.
A Fantasy That Comes With a Price Tag
A blockbuster restaging of an “art amusement park” from 1987 aims to recover a lost element in art — fun. But in our age of...