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Coco Chanel in Artists Using YouTube

There’s a line from a song in Finian’s Rainbow that goes “when everyone is somebody, then noone’s anybody.” So this Sunday, in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, an article called Pixels at an Exhibition appears to raise once again that burning question: what is art? For the exhibition in question at the Kitchen gallery, named simply, Artists Using YouTube, a few artists were invited by the curator, Rachel Greene, to choose videos from YouTube and to exhibit them in the gallery space. I say that it appears to raise the question although the author of the article, Virginia Heffernan, seems to assume that at least some of it is art or can be framed as art.

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