War has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the Vietnam War ...

If you wanted to find the Vietnam War in American television shows, you mostly had to wait until it was long over ...

An SNL relic resurfaces. Andy Samberg and his viral digital shorts are iconic and serve as a major moment in Saturday Night ...

I won’t say the shows were a triumph, as I don’t trust in triumphalism. Maybe it scares me; too close to hubris. In a room full of people cheering you on, you can start to feel important. You can ...

Philadelphia, John Africa thinks he has a solution to the problems plaguing the city — extreme back-to-nature living.

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In 1977, with dozens of fires set daily and tourism in freefall, New York hired an artist to save the city. His infamous ...

The early consistency of New Yorker art deco covers expressed both wonderful visual ideas and a graphic language for ...

Everyone loves the chain — including the chefs who pull all kinds of high-low inspiration for their own restaurants.

Giulia Rosa’s illustrations have a way of getting under your skin—in a good way. With soft colors, bold lines, and a ste ...

Illustrator Lili Chin became fascinated with dog behavior in 2008 after her Boston terrier, Boogie, bit their landlord and they almost got evicted ... With whimsical illustrations that drew on her ...

Brad Holland, an artist whose conceptual work and iconoclastic ways delighted — and often maddened — generations of art ...