Jacob Lawrence

LIBERTY — Michael Jacob Lawrence, 72, died Saturday. Born Dec. 15, 1939, in Nashville, Tenn., he was the son of the late Gilbert and Bertha M. Lawrence. He was a farmer. Survivors include five brothers, Victor (Patty) Lawrence of Windsor, Jerry...

After a hiatus of more than a year, Soulful Symphony re-emerged last month to perform for a packed house at the Hippodrome Theatre, inaugurating a concert series that continues there Friday night. Thanks to support from the recently launched Hippodrome...

The protesters named their Thursday morning operation "Shut Down Wall Street," even though it only called for people to demonstrate in front of the New York Stock Exchange. In the end, protesters did neither because thousands of cops were mobilized to...

I'm not an intellectual. (A friend has removed most of the "ain'ts" and cuss words from this article.) I know something about art, but I'm not powerful or rich. I'm an old man now, tired and with some health issues. So it sometimes amuses me that whenever...

Sprinkled around Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood are some of the city's lesser-known museums. They are not lesser museums, by any means. But it is difficult to stand out in the shadow of the Smithsonian. So these institutions go about their...

OCTOBER To Oct. 12 -- Jack King. Mixed media sculptures. Portraits of the Golden Age of Jazz. Photographs by William P. Gottlieb. Eissey. To Oct. 14 -- Alterego. Artwork by the most recent crop of Artists-in-Residence: Trisha Brookbank, Monica Hernandez,...

LAKEVIEW - Officials say the 3 year old died Thursday at Spectrum Health United Hospital in Greenville, and the death has led to the sanitation of of Lakeview Elementary School. The boy is Jacob Lawrence Chorak of Lakeview. According to the district,...

BEFORE Bernard and Shirley Kinsey remodeled their cliff-side home in Pacific Palisades, they often climbed up on the roof of the original two-bedroom midcentury tract house to take in the magnificent view of Santa Monica Bay. When guests visit, "people...

On Mother's Day, mother was away. For a 17-month-old boy, it is evidently an inconvenience to be the child of two poet-parents. On any given holiday, one of them can stray from Trenton's leafy capital neighborhood to give a reading in a place called New...

The unique and inimitable African-American artist Jacob Lawrence is featured in a huge new show opening this weekend at Washington's Phillips Collection called "Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence." An Atlantic City, N.J., native,...