We’re four years into the new ’20s, and the prototypal jazz-age aesthetic is finally making a comeback — reimagined, of course. Add to that the heavy-handed vamp noir lips featured at Valentino’s ...
Archibald J. Motley Jr., “Blues” 1929. Oil on canvas, 36 x 42 inches (Collection of Mara Motley, MD, and Valerie Gerrard Browne) (image courtesy the Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Illinois) (© ...
STOCKBRIDGE — The Jazz Age, which took its name from a new type of music, is most associated with a new type of high-spirited, even hedonistic behavior: flappers dancing the Charleston, people in ...
Take a stroll along Swing Street and visit the sites of iconic Central Harlem clubs where New York City’s Jazz Age was born! Walking in the footsteps of jazz greats like Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington ...
A lawn party for would-be Gatsbys and flappers has become an annual New York tradition. Roaring Twenties re-enactors had a hot time on Governors Island.Credit...Desiree Rios for The New York Times ...
A new speakeasy at Birmingham’s grandest hotel taps into the property’s rich heritage. Expect jazz, muscial theatre and high jinx in Brum’s newest basement venue. In the UK, the Victorian era was the ...
A Scott and Zelda roman à clef; a photo collection of 1920s Paris. By Sadie Stein Dear readers, The Museum of the City of New York recently unveiled the refurbished Stettheimer Dollhouse, the ...
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Legendary jazz photographer Herman Leonard, now 86, shot virtually every giant of the genre—from Louis Armstrong and Art Blakey to Miles Davis and Lena Horne—in his trademark high-res, lush-light ...
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