‘Buena Vista Social Club’ at 25: Memories of Memories

A group of older Cuban musicians recorded some of their favorite songs in 1996, and the album became an unlikely blockbuster. How do we hear it a quarter-century later?

Opinion | When the ‘Silent Majority’ Isn’t White

The new media obsession with moderate minorities.

Allen Midgette, an Ersatz Andy Warhol, Dies at 82

In a prank, or perhaps a piece of performance art, Mr. Midgette pretended to be the famed artist on a lecture tour in 1967.

The Secrets and Lies of the Vietnam War, Exposed in One Epic Document

With the Pentagon Papers revelations, the U.S. public’s trust in the government was forever diminished.

Patrick Sky, ’60s Folk Star and Later a Piper, Dies at 80

He was a part of the folk revival emanating from Greenwich Village, mixing melodic songs and satire. Then he became infatuated with the uilleann pipes.

Alex Hay, Comeback Painter

In the first survey of an artist who took a 30-year hiatus from the art world, his special brand of realism remains strong even as it becomes more abstract.

Opinion | Will We Ever Get Beyond ‘The Fire Next Time’?

The history of Black rebellion demonstrates a fundamental reality. Police violence precipitates community violence in a vicious cycle.