This signals us to be wary of easy pigeonholes in our categorization of artists.

WSJ: Becoming Mark Rothko | The Decisive Decade | Columbus Museum of Art

Stereotypes and pigeonholes can, in a stable multiethnic society, act as sanctuaries as much as cells.

NEWYORKER: I, Nephi

Ballard's tiny remote-operated vehicle snakes its way inside the ghostly wreck, where papers are still folded in the pigeonholes of an officer's desk.

FORBES: Pursuits | Found At Sea

The ugliest of these pigeonholes suggests a comparative advantage, anyway: to be thought to tap-dance well implies that you can, at least, do that.

NEWYORKER: I, Nephi

Ranging from 1919 to 1994, the set is divided into sections on the blues, church roots, party songs, standard tunes (slow and up-tempo), jazz originals, scat-singing and novelties, though the compiler acknowledges that many of his pieces overlap their pigeonholes.

ECONOMIST: Jazz singers