Smart News | July 21, 2023. Tony Bennett’s Passion for Art Lives On in His Paintings. Smithsonian curators reflect on the beloved crooner’s legacy as a musician and visual artist ...

Tony Bennett in San Francisco, 2002 [Photo: tonybennett.com]. Bennett’s death, less than two weeks from his 97th birthday, was confirmed to the Associated Press by his publicist Sylvia Weiner.

Tony Bennett died on Friday at the age of 96, the New York Times reported. In addition to being a legendary jazz musician, Bennett was an accomplished painter. His work has been displayed around ...

Tony Bennett may have left his heart in San Francisco, but his artist’s eye loved the Big Apple. The late superstar’s watercolor paintings of Central Park and sketches of the Empire State and ...

Tony Bennett's jazz art 21 photos. Bennett credited Sinatra with boosting his profile after he was quoted in a 1965 Life magazine interview saying, "For my money, ...

Tony Bennett died Friday, July 21, 2023, at the age of 96. ... The beauty of working with jazz artists is they are so trained as musicians it enables them to be very spontaneous when they perform.

Tony Bennett's granddaughter Kelsey has curated a series of images featuring famous faces to benefit her late grandfather's nonprofit Exploring the Arts. Bidding is live on Artsy starting June 25.

Tony Bennett, the legendary pop, jazz, and big-band vocalist, has died. He was 96. NY native made history as one of the only artists to chart new albums in the '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s ...

"Tony Bennett was a consummate artist," Martin Scorsese said in a statement sent to The Associated Press. "All you have to do is listen to any one of his hundreds of recordings to recognize that.

One dreary Christmas Eve, singer Tony Bennett found himself alone and miserable in New York City’s Gotham Hotel. His first marriage was crumbling. His two sons were at home with his soon-to-be ...