Archives for August 5, 2020

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra perform Ellington’s “Afro-Bossa” at a 1965 concert in Baghdad:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“Its beauty comes from the fact that nothing you see was built before 1900.”

Marcel Duchamp (quoted in Virgil Thomson, Virgil Thomson)