ASAP Rocky Acquitted of Shooting Former Friend

ASAP Rocky, the Grammy nominated hip-hop artist and fashionista, was found not guilty on Tuesday of shooting a former collaborator. The jury deliberated for nearly three hours in a case that threatened to derail his career. Rocky, 36, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, faced two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon, stemming … Read more

Hundreds of Artists Call on N.E.A. to Roll Back Trump’s Restrictions

In one of the first signs of collective pushback to the Trump administration’s arts initiatives, several hundred American artists are calling on the National Endowment for the Arts to roll back restrictions on grants to institutions with programming that promotes diversity or “gender ideology.” Among the 463 writers, poets, dancers, visual artists and others who … Read more