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Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae
Carmen McRae sang jazz standards like you’ve never heard them before. Just listen to “I Only Have Eyes for You,” a song you’ve probably heard on Black Mirror, Euphoria, or The Crown and sung by Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and other artists. Over her 50-year career, she released over 70 albums and was nominated for seven Grammy awards.
What a leading music critic thought of McRae, plus our curated playlist
Ghost in the machine
Seeing the words “computer” and “art” next to each other still makes some people bristle. Given our anxieties about things like ChatGPT and deepfakes, that’s understandable; but art’s relationship with technology has a long history.
How humans throughout history have used new technologies to create art
Grete Stern’s weird world of dreams
Amidst the odd objects found in the Getty Research Institute’s archives is a series of illustrations of women in vexatious situations: walking along a beach covered in nails, dangling from a rope, clambering up a rocky cliffside, falling out of the sky. For photographer Grete Stern, images like these were all part of a day’s work. Stern studied photography in her native Germany and took courses at the influential Bauhaus before immigrating to Buenos Aires in the mid-1930s to escape Nazi persecution.
A peek into the female subconscious
When Apollo had purple hair
Walk through the galleries at the Getty Villa, and most of the sculptures look like some shade of white. But sometimes, that’s just because stone or terracotta lasts longer than the added polychromy. What is polychromy, you ask? Watch Jessie’s newest Becoming Artsy video and find out.