The peripatetic life of James Brown—painter, sculptor, ceramicist, publisher, paterfamilias and ascetic yet devilish-seeming avatar of elegance—has led him far afield from the New York art world tha…
Parroting speech, like aping action, is no one’s idea of a noble achievement. And like apes, parrots have long been pressed into the service of racist metaphor—or so Sergio Vega suggested in the exhib…