Chenier came to be known as the King of Zydeco. He toured Europe; won a Grammy for his 1982 album, I’m Here! ; performed at ...

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In his largest ever American institutional show, at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the nonagenarian painter is an unparalleled ...

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Alex Taylor believed he had made contact with a conscious entity within OpenAI’s software, and that she'd been murdered. Then ...

Indianapolis celebrates Juneteenth while honoring local Black history and navigating political tensions around diversity.

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It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and ...

In three works presented at the festival, protagonists throw their bodies into the fight and dance with depth and urgency.