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An artist with a disability shares many of the same experiences as other artists. We do, however, struggle with ideas and how to convey them on a canvas.

As Brownie McGhee once said, "The blues is life." Nowhere knows that life better than Chicago, which has been the world's blues mecca for more...

Those beloved-but-worn salad bowls? The slightly scratched teak table you scored at an antique fair? Your 90-year-old wood floors? Make them shiny and new with one of these simple wood cleaning recipes (chances are you c...

"Family Guy" parodied another "Family" comedy on Sunday. The open credits for the April 28 episode were done in the style of ABC's "Modern Family,"...

Mika has teamed up with "Victorious" star Ariana Grande for his latest single, "The Popular Song." The stylish video for the song, taken from Mika's...

Divorcing: Jason Aldean and his wife Jessica Ussery, they acknowledged to People, after a six-month drip-drip-drip of tabloid travails that began when the country star, 36, was caught by paparazzi seemingly getting hands...

The "Pre Dawn Show with Matt Oswalt" is back with a new, deeply troubling episode, this time featuring America's favorite sweetheart Alyssa Milano. Unfortunately, Matt...

If anyone is interested in watching a psuedo-music video for a Madonna song in which Madonna herself is not featured once, you're in luck. The...

"Almost all creativity involves purposeful play." -- Abraham Maslow, American psychologist, 1908-1970 I interview a lot of artists. Over the years, certain kernels of wisdom have stayed with me that I remember and refer ...

Neutral Milk Hotel is finally hitting the road again: Jeff Mangum, Jeremy Barnes, Scott Spillane and Julian Koster announced Monday that the indie rock outfit...

NEW YORK -- Actress Amanda Peet has managed to lure Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker to share a stage again with her first play....

We say young singers aren't what they used to be, and then we make huge demands on them. The tenor Matthew Grills was one of five winners of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2012 -- meaning that he ma...

Jamie Foxx may have found his next gig. The increasingly busy actor is reportedly in talks to join "Annie," Sony's upcoming adaptation of the classic...

Violinist Stefani Collins is still a grad student at Juilliard, but as she showed at her recital at the Phillips Collection on Sunday, she is a nearly finished concert artist. From the opening phrases of the Beethoven A-...

NEW YORK -- The off-Broadway show "Giant" and the quickly shuttered Broadway musical "Hands on a Hardbody" lead the Drama Desk nomination race this season,...

NEW YORK -- Two stories born in Britain are vying for America's biggest theater prize. "Kinky Boots" and "Matilda" are each a virtual lock to...

Following tradition, President Obama gave a comedic speech at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. Here are a few of his funniest lines, including: "My job is to be president, yours is to keep me hu...

Vietnam's first gay sitcom has become a YouTube sensation, racking up millions of views as support for legalising same-sex marriage strengthens within the communist government.Homosexuality...

It only takes a mile to bring people together--a mural mile. Los Angeles muralist Levi Ponce has demonstrated this for over a year as he...

Warner Bros. and Guillermo del Toro are ready to cancel the apocalypse with "Pacific Rim." The massive blockbuster -- about giant monsters attacking Earth, and...

A 19th-century church that was dismantled and moved to Chapel Hill last fall will have its bell tower restored to its place atop the building sometime this week.

A recent UK art auction serves as yet another friendly reminder to get artworks appraised. Today's found masterpiece, "Landscape with Rainbow" had gone unrecorded for...