If you wanted to play with James Brown, you would play by his rules ... background and the prejudices of his era—that Smith’s portrait impresses upon us. This sneakily sweeping history ...

“I remember my aunt bringing me records of people like Ella Fitzgerald and James Brown,” she told the Sentinel in 2011. “And that was a revelation. For my father, if it wasn’t Mahalia ...

James Paul Brown, artist and entrepreneur ... the LA Ballet and the musical La Cage Aux Folles. He painted portraits of notables including David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Nelson Mandela, and three US ...

James Paul Brown, artist and entrepreneur ... the LA Ballet and the musical “La Cage aux Folles.” He painted portraits of notables including David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Nelson Mandela ...

On the one hand, it memorializes an origin of Bachardy’s intense commitment to portraiture as an artistic genre. The Los ...

On the other hand, the sitter’s handwriting is also proof that the portrait ... (James Baldwin, William S. Burroughs, W.H. Auden), musicians and dancers (Lotte Lenya, Igor Stravinsky, Trisha ...

Brown and James Marsden (Paradise); Saagar Shaikh, Poorna Jagannathan, and Asif Aliand (Deli Boys) and Michael Fassbender, Richard Gere, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Jeffrey Wright (The Agency), among ...

WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with George Brown's widow Hanh Pham Brown and Curtis F. Williams about the release of Brown's Jazz in Paris ...

Bachardy’s studio is brimming with portraits — Frances McDormand, Theresa Russell, Jerry Brown, Isherwood in all states of dress and undress. Though we’d made plans over the years to do a ...

Around that time, 32% of Black Americans lived below the poverty line, with a median income of about $24,000 in 1964. On the ...

Rap Brown, James Baldwin, the great saxophonist John Coltrane and a striking portrait of a white-robed Muslim woman in Brooklyn. Many pictures are not about politics or art. They are simply a ...

Donald Trump, Melania Trump, and Ivanka Trump were all fixtures of the Met Gala until their involvement in politics.