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 ...
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) (© ...
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 ...
In 1921, while William Samuel Paley was still a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald wrote a story called “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” published it in his ...
The Delaware Art Museum returns visitors to the 1920s during “Jazz Age Illustration,” the first major exhibition to survey the art of popular illustration in the United States between 1919 and 1942.