On International Mother Language Day, we look at how rap and hip-hop artists are mixing languages and spreading a vernacular that captures the contemporary Francophone world: multi-ethnic, ...

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The 2026 Whitney Biennial opens this weekend at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art, featuring 56 artists, duos, and ...

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The third edition of the Diriyah Biennale, In Interludes and Transitions, strikes a reassuringly familiar note ...

From whale songs to lion roars, animals have evolved to stretch their voices across distances so that friends—and sometimes foes—can hear them. Each sound is coded with messages like "Come here!" ...

Listening to music is a lovely and strange thing. What is it? The sounds have such a great impact on us and yet, they’re invisible. The vibrations in the air conjure such images in our minds, give us ...

During a public piano performance, a girl approached and challenged me to play an Arabic song. Without rehearsal or preparation, I accepted and began playing on the spot. What Indian student found ...

An equine makes the low-pitched part of its whinny by vibrating its vocal cords—similar to how humans speak and sing—and the high-pitched part by whistling ...

A few small rodents like rats and mice whistle like this, but horses are the first known large mammal to have a knack for it.

We like to think of them as reliable geysers of almost unconditional love, and much of the time, they gush accordingly. They ...