Wu-Tang Clan gets classic cover treatment.

Brooklyn playwright Lynn Nottage wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Ruined, starring Condola Rashad.

A glimpse of artist Titus Kaphar’s first major solo exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum.

New HBO series tracks eight teams of teen poets as they traverse life and language.

The new rapper-turned-rock star strums up “Prom Queen” for a sun-drenched, boozy MTV crowd in Panama City Beach, Florida.

Twenty-two year old Condola Rashad is receiving glowing reviews for her role as Sophie in the Off-Broadway play Ruined.

Estelle, MTV’s Sway, Talib Kweli and NYC’s art scene heavyweights come out at Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation’s 2009 Gold Rush Awards in celebration of giving back to the artistic community.

Not the best week ever for the man whose portrait of our president landed in the Smithsonian…

Small group show of graffiti artists at Brooklyn’s McCaig-Welles Gallery outshines any exhibit hanging in the “art capital” Manhattan…

Ill collabo from two of today’s finest.

Nick Cave’s “Soundsuits” are otherworldly sculptures waiting to be worn…

If the Dinobots from Transformers were real, they’d probably look something like this.

Photographer Martha Cooper is known for capturing the birth of a culture in full color. Her latest exhibit, “Street Shots,” brings together her life’s work at Subliminal Gallery in LA.

Painter Brandt Peters fills his Los Angeles debut “Cackle Factory” with a crew of freaks.