few have been quite as dedicated to their art as Sun Ra. Born Herman Poole Blount in 1914 – though he claimed he was in fact from Saturn – and backed by his Arkestra collective, he released ...

Sun Ra: Space. Music. Mythby Tam Fiofori is an expansive treasure-trove dealing with the avant-garde musician’s many emanations: From Chicago to New York; Art and Poetic Dimensions of Sun Ra’s ...

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It caught the interest of Sun Ra, the pioneering jazz musician known ... we try to do examples of unique kinds of interactivity in art,” said Kevin Cavanaugh, the chair of the Boston Cyberarts ...

A collection of straight-talking essays and interviews capture the artist’s idiosyncratic perspective on America ...

Representing the Prairies, the Sobey Art Award finalist is known for work that collages fiction, animation, documentary, ...

This week in Newly Reviewed, Will Heinrich covers Reginald Madison’s mix of abstraction and figuration, Daniel Terna’s ...

Boulder’s Art Lande, who headed up the bill on the beautifully polished ... “In France” The latest excavation of live Sun Ra ...

Are the vibes good? These tracks by Milt Jackson, Lionel Hampton, Roy Ayers and others, chosen by 12 musicians and writers, should convince you.

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A reformed journalist who wisely joined our NPR affiliate in 1995, Fields takes the honor this year not because she's done something different but rather because she's been consistent ...

Absolute Superman introduces a wildly different take on the Man of Steel, including cutting Clark Kent out of the equation ...