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"Fischerspooner and [Jeremy] Blake are two of the most
visible examples of a new wave of contemporary artists
whose projects blur the distinction between popular
music and fine art....Fandom may seem diametrically
opposed to the kind of critical distance needed to
create incisive works of art, but many of these
artists manage to balance their own personal
relationship to the music with healthy doses of
skepticism and humor. Elizabeth Peytons luscious
watercolor portraits of pop starsElvis, Cobain, and
Sid Viciousvividly embody the weepy hysteria of fans.
Marclay skewered the ritual of Pete Townshends
smashed guitars with his recent video Guitar Drag, in
which a Fender guitar is tied to the back of an
amplifier-equipped pickup truck, and then dragged
across dirt roads in rural Texas. His installation of
impossible instrumentsa 25-foot-long accordion, a
13-foot-tall drum setpresented on a stage as if
awaiting a band of equally morphed musicians, sat in
the spotlight at this years Whitney Biennial..."

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-Brian in Atlanta
The Who This Month!
http://www.thewhothismonth.com
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