The video’s text overlay reads, “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 ...

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.

Henry Alford’s “I Dream of Joni” delivers readers an insightful and entertaining exploration of Mitchell’s life without tying ...

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 ...