Gaga won’t be the last musical A-lister to die trying to infuse pop art with the coveted status of “serious” art. Even now, she’s not the only one struggling to do just that. Jay-Z is ...

Below, a sort of social-media-era, two-person panel discussion between our art critic Jerry Saltz and ... James Franco, or Jay Z. Do I understand you right? Matthew Weinstein: As someone who ...

Right now, Jay-Z is probably wishing art critics had reviewed his latest album "Magna Carta . . . Holy Grail." While many pop-music critics panned the 16-song album — with its garish Samsung ...

Jay-Z raised the ceiling on hip-hop's impact within 21st century popular music, and proved rappers could be pop stars without ever explicitly going pop. By Damien Scott With the first quarter of ...

When Noel Gallagher responded to Jay-Z headlining Glastonbury by saying hip-hop had no place at the festival, the rapper emerged performing "Wonderwall." The "performance art film" for Jay's song ...

But earlier this century, indie and pop were still isolated enough that in 2009, when Solange took her sister Beyoncé and Bey's husband Jay-Z to a concert by the band Grizzly Bear at the ...