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On the second floor of the “old” UMMA building, Adolph Gottlieb: Sculptor features shapes resembling stars, suns, moons, and rainbows. The exhibit includes some of the powerful large-scale paintings that are the...

Karen Russell is moving fast, and she’s having the kind of enormous early success I thought was no longer possible for a literary writer in America. Her novel Swamplandia!–about a family of alligator wrestlers living...

Norway’s Jarle Bernhoft, who lately has used only his last name, takes the stage with a looping machine at his feet, a guitar or a small keyboard hanging from his neck, and a microphone. He’s a twenty-first century...

Google says there are an estimated fifty million people worldwide who play guitar, twenty million in the U.S. alone. Acoustic guitarist Andy McKee’s 2006 solo live performance of his composition “Drifting” has...

The 338th Army Band is playing triumphantly as we walk into the Crisler Center. We buy our requisite pretzels and sodas, notice that the wheelchair seating is completely full, then walk all the way down to the floor to find...

There are days when it seems that modernism and its descendants have become exhausted and that the arts can strive only to reinvent the past. That is certainly the impression one gets from the work of some of the more publicly...

The Purple Rose’s Vast Difference marks the second time the theater has remounted an early play of its benefactor, Jeff Daniels–the first time was 2008, when it gave Apartment 3A another whirl. Why do they do this?...

Hannah Arendt, a film about the mid-century German Jewish philosopher who examined the roots of totalitarianism, transports the viewer into a late-1950s world of intellectual New York cocktail parties enveloped in swirling...

The description “psychedelic D&D rock” might seem par for the course for your average high-school band. But there’s something admirable about a group of grown men–two of them in their...