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.

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 ...

I DREAM OF JONI: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots, by Henry Alford SONG SO WILD AND BLUE: A Life With the Music of Joni Mitchell, by Paul Lisicky On one of her signature songs ...