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Lou Reed spent the early days of his career embroiled in a bitter feud with Frank Zappa. But how did it all change for them to become friends?

Eight centuries after the legends took shape, Arthur's world continues to inspire filmmakers, musicians, advertisers, and ideologues.

Here, we look at ten women spanning the 19th and 20th centuries who endeavored to commune with the otherworldly, recording their experiences in art

Whether on the frontline in Ukraine or skate parks in Soweto, the genre is still a vital outlet for disaffected people everywhere. Here, musicians explain how they rage against the machine

Customers are discovering the dossiers that Amazon is building on their shopping habits, and what they find is downright insulting.

Vincent van Gogh’s paintings made during his final days are often interpreted as foreshadowing his death, but is that really true?

People who take time to deliberate before choosing a side on a political issue tend to be judged as having better moral character by those who disagree with them, according to new research.

In this excerpt from "Robert Indiana: An American Icon," Prudence Peiffer unpacks how the artist was shaped by America—and vice versa.

The brain’s acute response to the trauma of sexual assault can block a person’s ability to accurately assess what they experienced.

From Orwell to Agatha Christie, operatives used Western literature to challenge Soviet censorship and spread anti-communist ideas across the Eastern Bloc.

A look at the only story in Spanish criminal history where police reported ghost activity at a house in Madrid, one horrifying for all the wrong reasons.

The Aussie trio explain creating their new record sampling kids’ science shows and Tunisian music – and their surreal film with Haley Joel Osment

In the early twentieth century, immigrant anarchists organized across U.S. cities and stood at the center of major labor struggles.

It was time when IRL was the only life. Now a new exhibition at London’s Tate Britain explores the gritty, DIY creative spirit of the ’90s.

Artnet columnist Kenny Schachter dives deep into the world of Sigmar Polke, who wielded toxic chemicals with aplomb in his pictures.

Our beliefs about AI consciousness may depend less on evidence and more on self-interest.

Señorita Rio stands out as a particularly groundbreaking character, an actor of Latinx heritage who gives up the glitz of Hollywood for the danger of espionage. Created by writer Joe Hawkins and ar…

Fashion’s insider shoe has become a little too easy to recognise.

Elizabeth Van Lew operated a network of spies in Richmond, Virginia, sending coded messages to General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War. Undeterred by criticism from her Southern peers, Van Lew p...

While we may consider punk music to be a genre exclusive to the 1970s, the truth is, its attitude still lives on and will continue to for another century.

Architectural drawings and interviews offer a close-up look at the logistical side of this strange industrial process.

The Thinker is one of the world's famous sculptures, but it would never have been had it not been for another major sculptural commission.

Featured image credit: Ephemeral New York I was perusing my usual webpages this morning when I came across a fascinating article from Esther Crain’s wonderful blog Ephemeral New York. Today&#…

I’m not really interested in wrestling with what defines a classic. It’s the kind of question that fills up think pieces and podcasts with bouts of teeth gnashing and hand-wringing and endless rumi…

We are all going to die, and so is everyone we know. So how can you not be terrified?

Many colors evoke strong emotions in us, but there may be a particular significance to the color gray.

Popular culture often depicts people with psychopathy as cold, emotionless and hollow, but a recent University of Mississippi study found that the language associated with psychopathic traits is more ...

Killing Joke released their self-titled debut album on October 5, 1980, and rarely put a foot wrong over the next five decades

The latest in our series of writers’ favorite comfort films is a tribute to the lovably quirky 80s musical

Magic tricks reveal how the brain forms reality, as a review of 55 studies explores gaps in attention, perception and awareness.

From medieval shame to modern empowerment, trace how changing cultural views shaped the depiction of Eve across 2,000 years of Western art.

“Turner and the Slave Trade” recasts Romanticism’s relationship to nature and landscape painting as a vehicle for colonial propaganda.

A new book details the fruitful creative partnership between the singer and poet that helped shape Simone’s sound.

The making of a hard-hitting, documentary-inspired hit, created with some limited sampling technology

Herschell Gordon Lewis’s The Wizard of Gore mixes appalling splatter, Grand Guignol and some surprisingly strange ideas about illusion, death and reality.

Filipino komiks have long drawn on mythology to create larger-than-life champions for ordinary people.

Watching footage of local retail crime prompted liberal voters to adopt stricter, more conservative criminal justice policies. However, a recent psychological experiment reveals that these fear-induce...

Kurt Vonnegut employed absurdism in his works of science fiction to critique modern life in a way that traditional literary realism was unable to do.

Ancient Teotihuacan glyphs found in a Mexican cave reveal a Singing Mountain, warrior rituals, and a mysterious forgotten past.

The battle over the novel offers a window into America’s long-running fight over what students should be allowed to read.