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The well-known musician talks about the adoption ban, Pussy Riot and the future of the opposition movement.

Every musical note has life in it. For six decades the composer Elliott Carter imagined that life precisely.

Shawn Francis Peters’s The Catonsville Nine.

How working in hotels led Henri Matisse and Ian Wallace to rediscover the intoxicating purity of light.

Moussa Touré’s La Pirogue, Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad

Lucia Perillo’s On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths.

It's the antidote to the consumerism and cynicism that define our culture.

Artists can open a space of possibility in politics, but their role is problematic—and not always positive.

By providing free instruments, we use music to help rehabilitate prison inmates.