How a Francis Bacon painting echoes an unelected president and a felon, respectively, presiding over America's biggest ...

LA Weekly and the Village Voice sit down with John Waters to delve into the trashy glamour and witty humanity of his off-kilter masterpieces.

A 1969 article from the Village Voice Archive covered the burgeoning Gay Pride movement, which was coalescing after the Stonewall protests.

The Village Voice review of "Rose of Nevada" note the power of old-school film techniques to limn a ghostly tale of decay and redemption.

Given the lack of debate and discussion among educated blacks today, Harold Cruse’s remedies for the black intelligentsia’s failings seem more quixotic now than 20 years ago — particularly because ...

We are now winding down the anniversary of hiphop’s 30th year of existence as a populist art form. Testimonials and televised tributes have been airing almost daily, thanks to Viacom and the like. As ...

The other day I was talking on the phone with a friend who hangs out on the CBGB scene a lot. She was regaling me with examples of the delights available to females in the New York subway system. “So ...

John Maynard Keynes was twitted with changing his mind. He replied, “When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?” My favorite example of a change of mind was Norman Mailer at The ...

In the opening scene of Transformers: The Last Knight, we are presented with the spectacle of King Arthur and his knights locked in an existential battle for the survival of human civilization, even ...

Most people would be offended if you called them a white nationalist or a leading racist, but Paul Gottfried doesn’t mind. Really. “I couldn’t care less,” he says. At 71, Gottfried, white-bearded and ...

Brigette Blood on the streets in Bushwick: One “white lady drinking tea” can unwittingly change a housing market. If anyone needed a perfect Rorschach test for 21st-century gentrification angst, it ...

Arabian swelter, and with the air-conditioning broken, CBGB resembled some abattoir of a kitchen in which a bucket of ice is placed in front of a fan to cool the room off. To no avail of course, and ...