"Sun Ra: Art on Saturn" features a vast quantity of album covers that were handcrafted by Ra and his bandmates. A handmade Sun Ra album cover, from Sun Ra: Art on Saturn. Photo: Courtesy of ...

For the 45 years he was on the music scene, the keyboardist, composer, and bandleader known as Sun Ra (1914-93) was one of the most original and iconoclastic Black artists of the 20th century. And if ...

The prevalence of documentaries about musicians is a curse, because most of these films do a terrible job of showcasing music. One rare and moving exception is the work of the director Robert Mugge, ...

“Is this about the art, the artist or is it about the art collectors?” Daniel asked. The exhibition is part of an unparalleled one-year program aimed at questioning what kind of art ends up in museums ...

In the 1960s, jazz legend Sun Ra applied to NASA's art program. Somewhat of a glorified PR campaign, the program mostly funded cubist portraits of astronauts and artist imaginings of space colonies.

On April 10, 1991, the night of this concert at Inter-Media Art Center in Huntington, Long Island, Sun Ra was near the apogee of his earthly transit. Having led his transformative iterations of his ...

Installation view of Sun Ra, The Substitute Words: Poetry, 1957–72, Corbett vs Dempsey, 2021 (all images courtesy Corbett vs. Dempsey; photo by Robert Chase Heishman) CHICAGO — Twenty-five seconds ...

Onstage at New York’s Radio City Music Hall earlier this month, Solange, still touring behind her momentous 2016 album, A Seat at the Table, was flanked by two pyramids; between them was a massive orb ...

Spring 2018 is delivering a welcome batch of Sun Ra reissues, some of them remastered editions of existing albums, others newly put-together compilations. Among the compilations, two stand out: the ...