In Sly & the Family Stone’s prime, from 1968 to 1973, the band was one of music’s greatest live acts as well as a fount of...
The display at Bozar groups paintings according to six loose themes — “The Everyday,” “Repose,” “Triumph and Emancipation,” “Sensuality,” “Spirituality” and “Joy and Revelry” — mixing...
After Alice Coltrane’s death in January 2007, the many who mourned her passing and celebrated her influence — from the jazz world, Hindu and new-age communities,...
This week in Newly Reviewed, Holland Cotter covers two group shows: one devoted to an important gallery from the past, the other focused on language and...
As a student at Yale, Sheila Ducksworth often rushed home to indulge in two favorite guilty pleasures. She’d stop for dessert at Durfee’s Sweet Shoppe before...
Come to the Center for Brooklyn History’s grand Romanesque Revival building in Brooklyn Heights looking for staid portraits of 19th-century burghers, and you’ll find them. But...
A MATTER OF COMPLEXION: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt, by Tess Chakkalakal On Nov. 10, 1898, thousands of armed white supremacists stormed the...
The fifth time was the charm for Beyoncé at the Grammy Awards. On Sunday, following four previous losses for album of the year, the singer’s latest...
Yet despite Baker’s righteous fury at what she saw as America’s “race policy” — which she describes as “more insidious, more hideous” than Nazi Germany’s —...
Imani Perry often finds herself talking about things people get wrong about the South. For one thing, she says, there isn’t a single South, but many...
