Cultural Commentary

The conductor will end his 13-year tenure as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in June, leaving behind an expertly honed ensemble and a legacy of splendid performances.

The group’s self-titled third album brought funk grooves and a fiery horn section to songs of masculine angst.

The Jamaican band’s soulful and socially conscious album, embellished with rock and country touches, helped bring reggae to the world.

Films by Orson Welles, John Carpenter, Jean-Pierre Melville and others will be shown in the Museum of Modern Art’s ‘Rialto at 25,’ which celebrates the distributor’s quarter-century of sophisticated curation.

The legacy of the Japanese composer, who died last week at age 71, spans pioneering techno work, superb pianism and scores for films such as ‘The Last Emperor’ and ‘Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.’

Louis Armstrong made his earliest recordings 100 years ago in a tumbledown Indiana studio run by the upstart label, which went on to capture other early jazz luminaries like Hoagy Carmichael and Jelly Roll Morton.

The British graffiti artist was embraced by Ukrainians after his irreverent murals appeared in several of the war-torn nation’s cities and towns in November; now, local governments are working to protect the newly cherished art.

The British band’s 1973 album has a hypnotic rock sound and songs that explore the forces—greed, sadness and war, among others—that erode one’s sanity.

The saxophonist and composer, who died today at age 89, leaves a lasting creative legacy through his work with Art Blakey, Miles Davis and others.

The singer, who rose from poverty in the South to unprecedented stardom as a black woman in the 1920s, made her first recordings 100 years ago.

A young Iggy Pop found a sympathetic savior in David Bowie, who produced this proto-punk album that had an animal energy and left an indelible mark on the sound of rock.

The Oscar- and Grammy-winning songwriter had a sophisticated pop sensibility that led to a long line of distinctive hits, from ‘The Look of Love’ to ‘Alfie’ and ‘Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.’

The star conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic will become New York’s music director in 2026—but which orchestra stands to gain the most from the move is an open question.

The newly restored London studio-home of the Victorian painter Frederic Leighton is a stunning synthesis of Middle Eastern antiques and 19th-century British design.

The singer-songwriter, guitarist and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young co-founder, who died this week at age 81, was a brash performer blessed with a sweet, clear tenor that shaped the California sound.

The art historian, museum director and professor, whose passion for oft-overlooked modernists expanded the American canon, died last month at age 86.

The soulful rock ’n’ roller made his debut in 1973 with this album of New Jersey noir, on which he sings in voluble storytelling style of working-class blues and boardwalk outcasts.

In the years since the 1997 opening of the Richard Meier-designed campus, the center’s flagship museum has proved the naysayers wrong and become a world-class institution.

On her 1972 album, ‘No Secrets,’ the free-spirited singer-songwriter reckoned with her relationships with men in frank and soulful fashion.

The tuneful troubadour, who died at age 30 in a 1973 airplane crash, distinguished himself as a singer-songwriter with a voice that was witty, warm and shamelessly sincere.