Features tagged with art

When reality TV star Farrah Abraham released her debut album, a bizarre mixture of heavy autotune, unstructured songs and dead-eyed lyrics, it was largely ignored or, worse, openly laughed at. However, in recent months, it's begun to receive praise as a challenging piece of outsider art.

Amanda Palmer has asked fans to join her touring band in order to save her money - just what is she playing at?

In another piece examining the difficulty of separating the art from the artist, Angel Aguilar takes us through the life of Phil Spector, from early days as a teen idol up to the notorious event which sees him behind bars today.

As a fan, what do you do when it transpires your heroes and creators of your favourite works are responsible for reprehensible acts? Can you look past violence and intolerance? How about racism, homophobia, murder? Here, Alan Shulman addresses these problems and ponders the question: is it possible to separate the art from the artist?