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Over the last 67 years, the Grammys have tweaked the rules and names of art-driven categories to reflect shifts in music ...

Five albums are nominated for best album cover at the 68th Grammy Awards. Previously included in the best album package ...

Back in the spring of 1997, Deftones made their way to Seattle where they recorded at Studio Litho to lay down their second album for Maverick Records. The band had rented a condo near the studio ...

A picture is worth a 1,000 words, but how many should an album cover be worth? The several artists, designers, and photographers we spoke to behind some of 2025's best album covers can't say for ...

Recording artists are taking a larger role in the art direction of their albums. Turns out, creative people are creative in lots of ways. By Paul Grein As final-round Grammy voting opens on Friday ...

Have you ever picked up an album, stared at its cover, and thought that the art on the front might be better than the music on the actual record? It’s happened to all of us. Sometimes the art is just ...

Sometimes an image hits you, and you can’t get it out of your mind. Has that ever happened to you? You’re walking down the aisle at the thrift store, and you see an album cover on a far-off shelf. You ...

Mahmood Mamdani, a longtime Columbia University professor and father of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, sharply criticized the school’s leadership and its creation of a task force to address ...

Azhar Mahmood's stint as the head coach of Pakistan's Test side has come to an end. Azhar was appointed as the acting head coach in June this year, with his contract due to run until March 2026. But ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

We speak with the acclaimed academic and writer Mahmood Mamdani, who has just released a new book, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State. Mamdani, who has taught ...