Preppy style, BMXs, “Napoleon Dynamite”: Eight things inspiring the rapper right now.

Known for both his openness and his mysteriousness, the rapper, producer — and now actor — keeps people guessing.

The “One Battle After Another” actor and the Grammy award-winning musician on trusting God, playing against type and getting lost in the music.

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

A playlist of recent tracks by women singer-songwriters, from Jazmine Sullivan to Raye, who are changing the music industry.

A group of young singer-songwriters have transformed the genre by looking backward, without getting stuck in the past.

The artist on his new work at the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Alabama, the development of his practice and taking drum lessons from Jimmie…

A new generation of painters and sculptors are finding creative freedom by making rigorously pared-down work.

In returning to a songbook that is decades — if not centuries — old, a new generation of performers is expanding the definition of what…

In his lifetime, Ernie Barnes was largely dismissed and ignored by the industry. He became an icon anyway.