Bob Dylan and the rockers who paint reviewed

With the news that Miley Cyrus is to enter the world of visual arts, we set our art critic to work assessing what happens when musicians pick up paintbrushes. Hes not keen

Miley Cyrus sculptures to be exhibited in New York

Why do musicians feel the need to try their hands at visual arts? If you are successful in one creative field, you are probably wisest leaving it at that. Its not a given that creative talent will cross over from playing stadium rock to putting brush to canvas or making sculptures, as Miley Cyrus has now done. After all, Picasso never went on tour performing the Spanish gypsy music he loved. And yet, something drives one rock star after another to that desperate resort, the celebrity art exhibition. So how do the rock artists rate as visual artists?

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