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Throughout his artistic career Joan Miró had dreamed of the perfect studio, his ideal workspace where anything was possible. Yet it wasn’t until he wa...

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We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in arts and culture.

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Guitar loops are the foundation of new singles from established stars like Travis Scott and the breakout year of Lil Baby & Gunna

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An exploration into the music of skateboarding.

Here it is. Our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2018. Let it blurb. – ...

What is lost when we “watch Netflix” rather than shows and “listen to Spotify” rather than songs?

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Every boy band to chart the Hot 100 since 1980.

Lindsey Buckhingham of Fleetwood Mac breaks down "Go Your Own Way" from the band's seminal album "Rumours."

After years of cultish fascination, Amen Dunes gained greater prominence in 2018 with 'Freedom.' Damon McMahon looks back at the year, and f...

What the avalanche of new music means – from overwhelmed listeners to algorithms that seek out unsigned talent for labels

How getting lost in my hometown let me see a side of it I had long chosen to ignore.

There’s more to love, with reservations, in the Houston museum’s Drawing Institute and its extraordinary inaugural show of Jasper Johns works.

It’s 40 years since Rough Trade, Mute and Factory Records used an anti-industry attitude to give a voice to the likes of Joy Division and Depeche Mode...

A year ago, the rapper seemed on a path to hip-hop stardom. To bolster his street cred, he partnered with a Bloods street gang. Now he is under indict...

These days — despite longstanding clichés about art and excess — the creative impulse can actually be more closely tied to asceticism.

Iconic images from New Yorkers past, by Saul Steinberg, Charles Addams, and more.

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from their self-titled record

Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers are all Tiny Desk alum, but here they play together at NPR for the first time as boygenius, one of this y...

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From Travis Scott’s queasy emptiness to Khalid’s lowkey miserabilism, how did the pop charts become a destination for despair?

Logomania is an obsession with no end in sight. Here’s why.

We flew down to Louisville for a fashion shoot (!!) and a long talk with the elusive songwriter.

Our columnist defends the lack of a canine in his life.

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Penny Martin, editor of fashion’s quirkiest indie mag, on nearly a decade of publishing The Gentlewoman.

As the band dissolved, they managed to capture their destruction in some dark, powerful music.

Candy is controversial. Scouring the globe in search of the sweet stuff reveals just how different our palates are — and how much we have in common.

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Raf Simons, the chief creative officer of Calvin Klein, on art, fashion and admiring “people who have an opinion, even if it’s against me.”

From Post Malone to Lil Dicky, a bro wave has crashed the shores of rap. But not every white rapper is comfortable with the idea. And maybe it needs t...

Last night, Liam Gallagher listened to Radiohead, launching into a lengthy, late-night, nigh-incomprehensible tweetstorm about the band.

One man resisted the call of the world’s chicest gym. Now he’ll never slum it again.

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“The singular most moving experience of my life,” Hill says of directing the young cast.

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The official motion picture playlist for Mid90s, written and directed by Jonah Hill.

The artist made a scrapbook of her favorite spots.

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Unlike silly songs for children by, say, Raffi, or maudlin songs for parents like Dylan’s “Forever Young” or Cat Stevens’s “Father and Son”—two ballad...

Charred chocolate banana, mocha, sesame caramel, French fry, and seven different types of vanilla.