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.

At the time, he preferred art class, because as he told WQXR in 1981, he found “music classes [to be] terribly boring.” Related: 15 Best Tony Bennett Songs ...

Tony Bennett was known to sketch people and places, like this charcoal drawing of Central Park. Tony Bennett may have left his heart in San Francisco, but his artist’s eye loved the Big Apple.

Thinking of Tony Bennett, who left us last week, Oprah collected his art . .Sarah Vaughan had his canvas of Tokyo, Radio City showed his art exhibit, he sang for presidents George W. Bush and Clinton.

“Tony Bennett left us an awe-inspiring legacy as a renaissance man who used his talents not only to entertain but to bridge generations and champion equality through his music and art,” says ...

They sparkled under the stars in the Tony Bennett Concert Hall at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts High School. With voices as silky smooth as the crooner himself, high school students soothed ...

"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.

Six years later, on July 21, 2023, Bennett passed away — but a few of his stories are still fresh in my mind. Particularly one about the charming way he knew his signature tune, “I Left My Heart in ...

Tony Bennett was somehow a jazz artist and a pop star at the same time — the only figure in American music who was always both. On one hand he celebrated the legacy of Louis Armstrong, and of such ...