Reckoning With the Loss of Scott Hutchison
Suffering songwriters have long helped listeners feel less lonely. If only we could repay the favor.
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How Might We Decolonize the Brooklyn Museum?
In refusing the restitution of stolen artifacts, museums ironically ask us to forget the crimes of the past while serving as custodians of history.
PS Picks: Geoff Dyer on the Photography of Garry Winogrand
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
PS Picks: Nigerian Creatives and the Art Scene in West Africa
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
Hailu Mergia’s Great Re-Appearing Act
Hailu Mergia, once among the most beloved musicians in Ethiopia, spent the past two decades working as a cab driver in Washington, D.C. But he never stopped playing, and he's back at it again with a new album.
New Research Shows That Neanderthals Were Artists
We always assumed humans were the only species to create art. It now seems we were wrong.
Viewfinder: A UNICEF Arts Exhibition in Beirut
People visit the exhibition "Haneen, a Collective Work of Lebanese and Syrian Artists on the Impact of War on Childhood," in Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, on February 20th, 2018.
PS Picks: The ‘Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today’ Exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
Future Physician, Heal Thyself: Get Thee to a Gallery
New research finds medical students who enjoy music and art have qualities that make them better, and less-stressed, doctors.
Perhaps Music Really Is a Universal Language
New research finds we can often identify a song's intended purpose, even when it's a product of a distant culture.