Performing arts

Last fall, Dallas unveiled a world-class performing arts campus to rival New York’s Lincoln Center. At the same time, a new Dallas Cowboys stadium opened up that that showcases giant sculptures by some of the world’s greatest artists. We sent Michael May to check them both out.

In 1969, Jimi Hendrix‘s performance of the national anthem at Woodstock hit like a shock wave; with its distortion and chaos, it sounded like a rupture in something sacred. Two music scholars and two rock guitarists put together the pieces. Produced by David Krasnow. Check out the feature page on our new American Icons website, […]

How drive-in movies helped Twyla Tharp become a world-class choreographer.

A new exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art gives visitors a chance to look at the early roles black Americans filled in film and entertainment.

Three decades after her debut, Rickie Lee Jones says her new album, Balm in Gilead, saved her life by helping her get over a tough breakup. It’s also helping her audiences. She told Kurt, “When the tour started, people were weeping, but by the end of the tour, for some reason people began to giggle.”