In “The Uncanny Muse,” David Hajdu offers a lively survey of centuries of machines that have served as instruments of ...

instrument choice, professional influences and more, often with a performance by the artist as part of a collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Musical Instruments.

In his gothic-surrealistic works, the artist casts his characters not as autonomous artistic agents but as acquiescent, adaptable instruments ...

Margarita Díaz-Andreu explores the intriguing relationship between Zimbabwean rock art and musical instruments. Southern Africa has a long history of rock art research. However, research ...

The 38-year-old musician, also known as Vee Mhofu, is a renowned Mbira performer. The instrument, preserved for more than a thousand years by the Shona people, who make up the majority of Zimbabwe's ...

A violin is a work of art on its own, before anyone makes music with the instrument. In fact the amount of craft that goes ...