Works entering the public domain this year include Steamboat Willie, J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, A. A. Milne’s The House at Pooh Corner and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. Illustration by Emily…
Coltrane rehearses backstage before a show in London in November 1961. Getty Images They gathered one afternoon in late October of 1960, at the Atlantic Records studios in a nondescript…
Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Images by Reg Innell / John Storey / Getty Images / National Archives Taylor Swift and Beyoncé are not the first women to find great…
Fans hold a photo of Selena during the ceremony honoring her with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017. Tara Ziemba / AFP via Getty Images Selena…
Kelyn Soong Freelance Writer Seeing a Star Wars X-wing starfighter won’t require a trip to a galaxy far, far away. This year, just in time for May 4—Star Wars Day—the…
Left, Rita Moreno, the Puerto Rican actress who played Anita in the 1961 film West Side Story. Right, the Italian opera singer Giulia Grisi in the 1830s. Getty Images Bottled…
Look closely at Libba Cotten’s 1950 Martin guitar, part of the Sounding American Music exhibition at the National Museum of American History, and you may be able to see the…
Photographs selected by Jeff Campagna Text by Tracy Scott Forson What would life be like without music? Luckily, we don’t have to find out. For eons, humans have found ways…
Whether decorated with a photo of a bustling subway stop or a striking Andy Warhol painting, album cover designs can constitute masterpieces in their own right. Michele Molinari/Getty Images In…
Visitors look at posters in the Third Man Museum in Vienna. Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images We all have movies that we want to learn everything about. Documentaries and interviews…
