Candice Breitz is a Berlin-based video artist who collects groups of strangers, conducting them in an orchestra of a cappella pop songs. The usually traditional Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is exposing Breitz’s work to a larger audience with the exhibition Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs, up through February 2010. The main gallery area overflows with snapping, sing-song renditions of all 73 minutes of the Immaculate Collection, an irreverent addition to a museum that has exhibited nineteenth-century Venetian paintings and treasures from the British Museum. Watch more insanely entertaining video pieces on the artist’s website, including Michael Jackson karaoke and a soliloquy trilogy of Jack Nicholson, Sharon Stone, and Clint Eastwood. Click through for another preview of the installation. Read More »

Were you ever forced to watch D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation for a class? Considered Hollywood’s first “blockbuster,” the silent black and white film takes place before, during, and after the Civil War, and is controversial because of its positive portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan. It also clocks in at three hours.

Composer/multimedia artist DJ Spooky (aka Paul D. Miller) has created a cinematic deconstruction and remix titled Rebirth of a Nation that will be playing at the Museum of Modern Art from June 22nd through the 28th; he emailed with Flavorpill to explain what he hopes you take away from his post-Obama version of a 1915 classic. Read More »