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...project with a simple enough premise: to create visual symphonies using random YouTube footage of school concerts, piano lessons, weirdly intimate soliloquies and American Idol-esque performances uploaded by people across the world. In one of his creations, dubbed "This Is What It Became," the 26-year-old artist juxtaposes clips of a "Glitch Monster Love Bot," a tutorial called "How to Play Conga Drums," a dimly lit monologue for the legalization of marijuana and a demo for a toy keyboard/ tape deck that YouTuber CosmoHelectraStudio, who posted the video of the gadget, describes as "a very bad sound...
...have exploded on the Web, drawing million of viewers in a matter of days, and offering amateur musicians (whose concerts are usually a party of one) some long sought-after attention. Before he came along, the Monster Love Bot had garnered a mere 4,627 hits on YouTube. Reggae artist Mighty Lion's "exclusive" a cappella clip fared even worse, attracting just 4,423 pairs of eyeballs since he uploaded it last March. But now, thanks to "This Is What It Became," the Lion and the Love Bot have been introduced to more than half a million people and counting...
With his recognizable bald pate, full ginger beard, and voice soaked in Kentucky moonshine, Will Oldham—also known as Bonnie “Prince” Billy—occupies a constellation of his own in the alt-country scene. A prolific artist, he has been releasing albums for the last 15 years under a variety of names, including Palace, Palace Music, Palace Brothers, and Bonnie Billy, as well as moonlighting as an actor in indie films like “Wendy and Lucy” and “Old Joy.” Oldham?...
...African businessman, and Felix Teitlebaum, a melancholy soul who pines for Eckstein's sensuous wife. Others are produced as parts of multiscreen installations in which eight or more unfurl simultaneously on all four gallery walls. So in 7 Fragments for Georges Mlis, his semicomical riff on the artist in his studio, we see Kentridge climbing a ladder on one screen (and tumbling down), pacing on another and ripping apart a life-size drawing of himself on yet another...
...reconsider the dry policy in the hopes that serving alcohol might increase revenue. “Some people may have avoided coming here before and may have gone to another venue for drinks,” said Scotti. “Now they can have both an amazing artist and the chance to relax and have a couple of beers or a glass of wine.” Club Passim is managed by the non-profit umbrella organization Passim Folk Music and Culture Center, which also operates several music-related programs. The organization has recently seen its main sources...