The '80s band (whose members aren't entirely sold on that description) recently powered through a set at Sirus XM Radio's New York headquarters as part of the company's "Artist Confidential" series.
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Aho is also a visual artist and is producing a series of videos for the latest ((Sounder)) CD.
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Then there is big, fat, naked Leigh Bowery, a transvestite performance artist who modelled for a series of portraits in the early 1990s.
"Portrait of a Gentleman" came to light when a descendant of 19th century painter Matthew Shepperson put a series of paintings by the artist up for sale in August 2010.
And inspired by a gift from a friend, he'd started writing music to accompany the 1929 wordless graphic novel "God's Man, " told through a series of wood engravings by American artist Lynd Ward.
The dungeons of the Castel Sant'Angelo, a papal fortress just near the Vatican, inspired the 18th Century Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi to create his famous series of imaginary etchings of Roman prisons - I Carceri.
Several etchings from James Abbott McNeill Whistler's "Thames Series" (1859) reveal the artist's canny eye for selective detail and exquisite finesse with an etcher's needle.
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The artist, who won the Turner in 2003 for a series of vases depicting subjects like death and child abuse, said the prize was "very relevant still".
Later on in the series will come S.mouse, a rap artist from Los Angeles and the creative genius behind the most successful hip-hop single of all time, Slap My Elbow, and other US-based characters.
Max has also been the Official Artist of five Super Bowls, six Grammy Awards, The World Series, the United Nations Earth Summit, and numerous other events.
But then he brought in the visual artist Jennifer Oxley, and their collaboration resulted in a sensually dazzling series, a revelation to anyone brought up on the schlock aesthetics of Hanna-Barbera.
The artist said the ashes were mixed with water and used to paint a series of grey streaks in the small painting.
The sale also includes the sketches of Madonna, who was the subject of a series of paintings - some of them nude - by the artist in 2002.
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More recently, Parker has found new life in a series of imaginative and stylish graphic novels from Eisner Award-winning artist and writer Darwyn Cooke.
South African artist William Kentridge has set up "The Refusal of Time, " a series of video screens in Kassel's former train station near Track 13, where Jews were once sent to Auschwitz.
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But to the artist and the knowledgeable collector, it shows colourful schemes of plants and branches set among a series of kangaroo tracks, camp-fires and mountains.
The Memphis Symphony Orchestra collaborated with hip-hop artist Al Kapone for a program of orchestral-backed rap as part of its Opus One series performed in alternative spaces.
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Michael Westmore, the legendary Hollywood makeup artist best known for his 18 years of Emmy award-winning work across the Star Trek series, as well as for winning the Oscar for the movie Mask, joins the show as a mentor to the contestants.
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Along with naming nominees in a series of videos online Wednesday morning, the academy also awarded trophies in the three new artist categories.
The series "Man at His Leisure" appeared in the magazine for 15 years, showing the artist's impressions of sporting events and social activities.
Egyptian artist Nadine Hammam had been creating "Let's Love" -- the latest in a series of works on gender politics -- when the politics of people power brought her work to a halt as she immersed herself in the demonstrations.
In the guise of a straightforward series of concert performances, the director Murray Lerner has crafted a canny, revelatory documentary about how the artist seized the day.
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