Video of John Williams Scoring “The Force Awakens”

With his nomination for Best Original Score for Star Wars: The Force Awakens at this year’s Oscars, composer John Williams nabs his 50th Academy Award nomination—the second most in history. Ahead of the award show, Star Wars has released a behind-the-scenes video of Williams working on the soundtrack as well as some commentary on how he shaped the music to fit the new characters. Head …

QuoTED 2016

Snippets of insight and inspiration from this year's conference

Once again set in Vancouver, TED 2016 was a gift that will keep giving. Beyond the invaluable networking, unique experiences and engaging installations, attendees were treated to a high concentration of inspiring, even life-changing, talks—several of which are already online for public viewing. Throughout the year the talks we witnessed will be rolled out for all to see. In the mean time, however, we present …

Kristen Liu Wong + Luke Pelletier’s “Hanging Out” at Superchief Gallery, Brooklyn

An exciting collaborative exhibition in Greenpoint incorporating a bold mural

LA-based artists Luke Pelletier and Kristen Liu Wong have shown artwork together before, but never quite like what they’re doing at Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s Superchief Gallery. Their pieces do not simply hang beside one another on the black walls of a charming space that doubles as Tender Trap bar. Rather, the duo collaborated on a series of large-scale works—and one epic mural. Each painting contains stylistic …