All Those Rockers Who Paint: Any Good?

Why do musicians — like Joni Mitchell, pictured — 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. It’s 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 performed the 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? Find out here.

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