“I’m a product of American Apartheid,” the artist Jack Whitten wrote, a blunt fact that led him to project, in his art, a very different reality,...
This week in Newly Reviewed, Andrew Russeth covers Léon Spilliaert’s brooding pieces, Betty Parsons’s restless forms, Adriana Ramic’s beetles and Ho Tam’s barbers. Chelsea Léon Spilliaert...
Betty Bonney was already a veteran big-band vocalist at 17 when she joined Les Brown and His Orchestra in 1941 — in time to sing the...
For the most part, presidential inaugurations are moments of communal pageantry. There is music and poetry. There are oaths to recite and vows to make. Everyone...
