For 150 years, the demimonde has been a visible part of urban life. But media saturation and multicultural reality have dislocated “The Scene.” Bohemia is a state of mind.

Marina Abramovic and Ulay's 12-Year Partnership in Art and Life Comes to a Spectacular End on the Great Wall of China

“I remember the picture: Two black men in bloody tattered clothing hang from a tree and below them stand the grinning gloating proud and pleased white folks. But there’d been a third man lynched in Marion that night — and he’d survived.”