A music notation is an almost impossibly complicated bit of drawing. Calling it a map or a diagram does not quite do the trick. Its lines encode mechanisms for the planning, composition, analysis, ...

Before he garnered acclaim as a musician, Daniel Johnston was known in his West Virginia hometown as a visual artist. He was compulsively creative with a mischievous streak, drawing on any available ...

In his music, the songwriter cut to the emotional quick. A new book of his drawings, many never seen before, reveals he did the same in thousands of pieces. In his music, the songwriter cut to the ...