EXCLUSIVE: The spring lineup for the Emmy-winning documentary showcase Independent Lens is looking funky, by design. WE WANT ...

I wrote recently about some of the most influential artists who brought together punk and funk in their music. It's still quite a thought-provoking and perhaps unexpected fusion of genres.

This year’s annual three-day Word of South festival of music and literature in and around Cascades Park starts April 4 and ...

Summer is calling. With every lineup announcement from Telluride’s big music festivals, the allure of sun-soaked days in Town ...

Art Neville formed the Meters in New Orleans in 1965. The funk band would exist in many incarnations into the 2010s.

Galactic and Irma Thomas, glbl wrmng, Kate Fagan, HaSizzle, Brat and more New Orleans musicians released new music in January ...

Next, Neville formed Art Neville and the Neville Sounds with brothers Aaron and Cyril. By 1965, that band morphed into the Meters, which created New Orleans funk. As the house band for Allen Toussaint ...

William T. Wiley is a contemporary American artist. Maintaining an eclectic practice that has been associated with the Funk Art movement, Wiley incorporates drawing, painting, sculpture, performance, ...

Robert Arneson was an American sculptor and ceramicist who is considered the father of Funk Art, the anti-establishment movement that incorporated a mélange of found objects, autobiographical subjects ...

In 2007, he self-released his first album, Class of 90s, and homage to the classic sound of the 1990s with soul, funk, and R’n’B influences. His 2013 album, Red, however, represents his turn towards ...

And, certainly, they share a common interest in folk art, children's art and primitive art. Closer to home, is the so-called Bay Area “Funk Art” movement of the 1960s—humorous, pop-oriented and ...

After creating wedding cakes for her three daughters, and countless birthday and anniversary cakes for friends and relatives, Cindy Funk thought that creating a gingerbread ...