Word: artiste
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...College’s third annual Yardfest will feature two headlining artists for the first time—one of whom may be pop-rock artist Gavin DeGraw...
According to Pararas, student surveys done last year directed artist-finding efforts...
...that room did every day. There was something more in this than the razzle-dazzle of the pasties or the sheer stage presence of the performers. I began to see in burlesque the glimmer, the shiver, of art. It was the pole dancing, though, that really convinced me. Performance artist Erin Markey started out with comedy, talking about trying to support herself after college by becoming a stripper. Markey had a cloud of puckish hair and dark-painted eyes, and she explained that the strip club had asked her to pick a stripper name. What she chose, she explained...
...Kellner presents a modern take on Boston’s oldest independent library that manages to be a fitting re-imagination instead of a hideous attempt at revision. In July 2006, Kellner spent two weeks at the Boston Athenaeum on the eve of its 200th anniversary, serving as bicentennial artist-in-residence. The commissioned pictures of the Boston Athenaeum lend the building a “kinetic energy that metaphorically invokes the intellectual and cultural vitality of the institution,” according to Richard Wendorf, the director of the Athenaeum. In Kellner’s photographic reconstructions of famous...
...which belief in the revolutionary potential of a song is viewed as an anachronistic pipedream and faith in rockstardom as a transcendent force is regarded as both naïve and haplessly nostalgic. This thoroughly postmodern sentiment is both the fate and the challenge of the up-and-coming artist. How can today’s artist feel comfortable being creative knowing that their music will inevitably fall short of the highs reached by a century’s worth of pop music?The title of Toronto band Metric’s second album does justice to this longing frustration...