The breathless email came in from a reader: “If you want a real YouTube treasure, how about fierce, weirdly mannish Nina Simone doing a cool jazz 1960s version of a Hebrew folk song???!!!???” HELL, yeah! Bring it on, babe. To life!
In 1973, Robert Rauschenberg confronted collector Robert Scull over his flamboyant profiteering. The Voice’s Alexander Cockburn covered the financial and personal fracas.