As Gen Z TikTokers dove into the famous songwriter’s past, they discovered a controversial period in Mitchell’s career: Art ...

First, the naivety. Mitchell’s controversial use of blackface started in 1976. That was the year when she first dressed up as a male black pimp alter-ego called Art Nouveau. You read that correctly.

Me when I'm singing this and my brother has to tell me Joni Mitchell had a black alter ego named Art Nouveau and she got so much backlash that she had to retire her alter ago,' TikTok user @ ...

Joni Mitchell is facing a social media backlash over her use of blackface in the 1970s. The Canadian-American artist, one of ...

For a superfan I’ve not been very diligent with Joni Mitchell’s back catalogue ... featuring Joni in Blackface as her alter ego “Art Nouveau” on the cover. I was a coward who didn ...