When Dylan lost interest in protest music, Baez used what he’d already written to further her social activism. Meanwhile, her defining original “Diamonds and Rust” describes the residual ...

Joan Baez has spent the past 60 years singing protest songs. While many from her generation gave up on social justice activism, she carried on. She’s also recorded many Bob Dylan songs ...

Sotheby’s had significantly fewer lots at its mid-season Contemporary Curated sale this year, but the live auction in New York on February 26 still yielded $19.88 million including fees. Báez is now ...

Firelei Báez was born in 1981 in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, and lives and works in New York, NY. She received a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and an MFA from Hunter ...