What she had in mind was the Corolina Horn Quartet, performing that very evening in Tew Recital Hall on the campus of UNC Greensboro. Nearly any concert Bess suggests involves classically trained ...

Half a century after her death, Umm Kulthum's singular voice still echoes through busy streets in Egypt, across time-worn cafes in Iraq, and in millions of homes from Morocco to Oman."As long as ...

Julie Mehretu talks to Jennifer Higgie about the radical uses of abstraction, the importance of music, and her interest in the art of the past.