Eric Yahnker: The Serious Side of a Joke


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There’s a game I like to play where I try to link a musician and an artist whose careers, styles, or personas echo each other. Here’s some easy ones: Louise Bourgeois is Patti Smith, FUTURA is Suicide, Kara Walker is Nina Simone and Salvador Dali is Frank Zappa. There are some others that are also good but may not be as perfect a match: Alex Katz could be Billy Joel, Mary Weatherford could be Alice Coltrane, Urs Fischer could be DEVO, and Picasso might be the closest this game gets to the Rolling Stones. Now I am sure there are some good Dua Lipas and Bad Bunnys; I just don’t know what they are yet. Time helps. A little bit…

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