Tag: Archives and Records

India’s Early Electronic Music From the ’70s Is Finally Being Released

A trove of tapes discovered in a cupboard at the country’s National Institute of Design showcases artists composing early synth recordings on their own terms.

Egypt’s Government Is Bulldozing the City of the Dead

The dead are being exhumed and the living are being evicted to make way for President Sisi’s Pharaonic fantasies.

Satchmo’s Wonderful World: Louis Armstrong Center Amplifies An Artist’s Vision

New jazz and exhibition spaces, and an inaugural show curated by Jason Moran, feature the trumpeter’s history, collaged onto the walls.

The Lunar Codex, a Time Capsule of Human Creativity, Stored in the Sky

The Lunar Codex, an archive of contemporary art, poetry and other cultural artifacts of life on Earth, is headed to the moon.

Biden’s ‘Final’ Order on Kennedy Files Leaves Some Still Wanting More

The president has finished a review first mandated by law in 1992, and while a vast majority of papers related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have been released, some remain redacted.