Kara Walker

This book traces the development of a critical practice within African American literature, art, and activism that identifies and critiques the widespread appropriation of classica...

This chapter explores the tension between the association of the Lincoln Memorial with the civil rights movement and the continued prevalence—during and after the movement itself—o...

Known for - and even overshadowed by - his brutal and spectacular building cuts, Gordon Matta-Clark's oeuvre is unique in the history of American art. He worked in the 1970s on the...

Abstract Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony is one of the most famous symphonies of the twentieth century in purely musical terms, and the circumstances of its compositio...

Saturday Night Fever is simultaneously one of the biggest-selling albums of all time and one of the most reviled. How can a record create such a polarizing reaction? Aust...