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Washington's National Mall will regain a star attraction Friday, when the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History reopens after a two-year renovation. It took $85 million and a horde of curators, builders, architects and advisers to reframe space for the museum's 3 million historic objects.

Eddie Argos, the 29-year-old leader of London band Art Brut, has made a career out of not growing up. On the group's latest album, Art Brut vs. Satan, that may be for the best, according to critic Robert Christgau.

Lata Mangeshkar recorded more than 25,000 songs for Indian movie musicals. She died in Mumbai, where she had been hospitalized with pneumonia and COVID-19.

Pianist Yuja Wang debuts a hot new concerto by her friend and composer Teddy Abrams on a new album, 'The American Project.' TPR's Nathan Cone reviews the disc.

From Texas Standard : A group of black community activists led a march from Huston-Tillotson University to the state Capitol on Sunday. Thousands of...

Economist Robert Reich argues that the economy isn't going to get moving again until we address a fundamental problem: the growing concentration of wealth and income among the richest Americans. He explains his fears for America's economic recovery in Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future.

Imagine a grand piano with the top removed. Armed with fishing line, plumbing tape and Popsicle sticks, 10 musicians lean over the innards of the instrument and play the bowed piano.

Music critic Tom Manoff says you needn't spend a fortune on classical music CDs for holiday gifts. Hear his top picks for inexpensive classics, from renaissance masses to 20th-century guitar concertos.

After years of instability, survey after survey finds teachers are leaving or planning to leave their profession soon.

Hilaree Nelson went missing this week after falling from the world's eighth-highest mountain in Nepal. Her body was recovered Wednesday and transported to Nepal's capital.