Meet Dorothy Dean, the Forgotten Warhol Superstar of the 1960s

Dorothy Dean

Photos courtesy of Éditions 1989. In the universe of Andy Warhol’s Factory, we typically name-check the requisite cast of characters: Jane Holzer, Edie Segdwick, Candy Darling. But one woman, Dorothy Dean, remains relatively unknown. A […]

Dorothy Ashby was the pioneer harpist who opened up the instrument to Black musicians like me | Music

Brandee Younger performing in 2019.

I began playing harp at 11 and the traditional path to follow with the instrument was the classical music one, where all the players I saw or studied were white. I found it quite an […]