Poet Kenneth Goldsmith explains how "dumb" culture is actually really smart, and allows us to embrace the messiness of contradiction and revel in the beauty of the ridiculously obvious.
"Wadjda," the first feature film shot in Saudi Arabia by the country’s first female director, Haifaa Al Mansour, gives voice to a feisty Saudi girl.
by Christian Williams
How Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop introduced avant-garde electronic music to mainstream British society in the 1960s.
by Christian Williams
A new documentary series from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles explores how Bruce Conner, a fixture of the Beat Generation, invented the modern music video.
by Christian Williams
As the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy approaches, Miriam Linna of Kicks Books and venerable independent music label Norton Records discusses the enormous recovery effort undertaken to salvage and replace their priceless stock of records, books, and vintage paperbacks.
by Christian Williams
Jim Henson's funny, but violent, commercials for Wilkins Coffee in the late 1950s offer a glimpse at an influential entertainer developing what would become a hugely successful template for entertaining both children and their parents.
Challenge your opinion of performance art with The Artist is Present – a fascinating film that documents the 2010 Museum of Modern Art performance art piece of the same name by Marina Abramović.
Nearly half of all known languages may soon be lost.
