As they paraded down the Champs-Élysées, they played just one artist: James Brown. He died in 2006 ... visionary artists who made the world their canvas.” Benfey moves on, to his grandfather ...

American-born, Mexico-based painter and sculptor James Brown, whose work ranged from neo-Cubist collage to abstract gouaches, died at age sixty-eight after a car crash on Saturday in Mexico.