Esperanza Spalding, the bass-playing jazz singer whose best new artist win upset Justin Bieber fans two years ago, was present to win two more Grammys in the pre-telecast.

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But the members of the Recording Academy, who vote on the Grammys, have made some stunningly questionable decisions over the years and not just the notorious Best New Artist Grammy they gave to the lip-sync act Milli Vanilli.

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Those conditions came happily together in Chagall's wonder years of 1911-17: new idioms in art, the persistence of Hasidic life in the shtetl, and an artist who found distance enough to reconfigure that life in the universal medium of paint.

ECONOMIST: Marc Chagall