Theaster Gates doesn’t just make art objects — he buys abandoned Chicago buildings and rebuilds communities inside them. Here’s why that’s harder to categorize than it looks.
Kerry James Marshall spent decades putting Black figures into the Western painting tradition. Now his work sells for tens of millions. Here’s why it took so long.
Growing up in Brooklyn, I spent my Sundays at CBGB’s hardcore matinee chasing music. I never noticed the leather shop or the kitchen equipment store right beside it.
Everyone calls Disintegration depressing. They’re wrong. Robert Smith’s 1989 masterpiece is about refusing to give up — and 35 years later, it still sounds like nothing else.
The firing squad in Goya’s Third of May 1808 has no faces. They don’t need them. Here’s what the painting actually says about empires, workers, and who bleeds when states collide.
The story of two Gibson guitars passed between father and son — a 2008 Les Paul Supreme in Heritage Cherry Sunburst and the old black Gibson that came home.