Article: Michael Stipe & Douglas Coupland: one defined a generation in music, the other in literature, but the R.E.M. front man and the Vancouver-based novelist both have serious sidelines in visual art. The future of art may be in the download, but hey, a renaissance has to start somewhere.(ART)(Discussion)

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Michael Stipe and Douglas Coupland met at the presidential inauguration for Bill Clinton in 1993, and they've been discussing culture and ideas with each other ever since. While the public is already quite familiar with these two gentlemen (Stipe for his music and Coupland for his writing), their involvement in the visual arts is still a little more underground. Both attended art school in the early '80s--one admittedly for a more protracted period than the other--and while Coupland resumed making visual art in 2000 after a decade-long hiatus, Stipe began to show just recently (his first exhibition, which involved bronze casts of cameras ...

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