Artists' versions of folklore and fairy tales.
I usually don't comment publicly on other artists' versions of my music, but so many people have been in touch that I felt I should answer some of the questions I have been asked.
On Saturday an exhibition opens in the pavilion, including the painting and Turner's oil sketches and minute pencil drawings of the scene, as well as rival artists' versions of the view which Brighton council managed to raise £225,000 in grants to buy from a Christie's auction in New York last year.
The opportunity to share the sophistication behind seemingly simple artistic concepts, like, for instance, the three circles that create the outline of Mickey Mouse's head onward towards dozens of artists' versions of Mickey Mouse throughout history (including Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Damien Hirst) has been a passion of mine from the beginning.
Some songs will produce several artists' versions of the same recording.
This year's 35-artist version, however, is well worth a visit.
And will Ellen get folks to like us?" sing Mr. Bowen and Mr. Bell, a kind of Chelsea artist version of Bialystock and Bloom.
Rife with failures of nerve and imagination, it seems like a return to an older, great-man, über-artist version of art history, crediting Warhol with everything from photo-based art to reality TV and even the contemporary interest in death.
There was a show by AES+F, an important quartet of established Russian artists; a version of a Los Angeles performance piece by Francesco Vezzoli, in which Lady Gaga played a Damien Hirst piano; and a retrospective, imported from New York's Museum of Modern Art, of seminal performance art.
What it left behind was an impressive array of artists, a version of "alternative" that seems less tenable by the month, and Mr. Rose's atmospheric time capsule of a book, which tells an exciting art-world story, of a kind that should be happening in one form or another in New York all the time, and is barely happening at all.
