As they paraded down the Champs-Élysées, they played just one artist: James Brown. He died in 2006. The imperatives of biography are to record, to correct and to carve out historical ...

James Brown and Prince have their legacies firmly etched into the musical history books. But it came at a hefty price.

American-born, Mexico-based painter and sculptor James Brown, whose work ranged from neo-Cubist collage to abstract gouaches, died at age sixty-eight after a car crash on Saturday in Mexico.

James Brown always knew his measure. He thought very highly of his favorite person, James Brown, and was convinced that guy could do just about anything he set his mind to. Asked how he survived ...