What’s more American than apple pie or baseball? The guitar, it seems, and arguably by a wide margin. “Americans have a particular predilection for guitars,” said Mark Scala, chief curator at the ...

Every time a zebra finch lands, takes off, or hops on the guitars' strings, the notes play through a nearby amplifier. Courtesy of Ben Mirin The young male zebra finch alighted on the nearest guitar ...

A “Guitar Named Sue,” with its mix of smooth and charred wood, exemplifies the sin and search for redemption in Johnny Cash’s art. “The Cartographer” encodes a tribute to a grandfather in the ...