Michael Jackson in new art show
Pop legend Michael Jackson's "enormous effect" on contemporary craftsmanship will be investigated in another display in Paris and London one year from now. The "historic" show claims it will tell the "untold story" of how the lord of pop moved toward becoming "a standout amongst the most powerful figures in a craft of the last 50 years", rousing craftsmen from Andy Warhol to David LaChapelle and Grayson Perry. Works highlighting Jackson by somewhere in the range of 40 specialists including Gary Hume, Maggi Hambling, Catherine Opie and Yan Pei Ming will be united without precedent for "Michael Jackson: On the Divider" at the National Picture Display in London in June, before the show goes to the Terrific Palais in Paris in November. Jackson is credited with helping transform the music video into a fine art, and of advancing the robot and moonwalk move moves. Keeper Dr Nicholas Cullinan, who runs the London exhibition, said the show t...