In honor of the Halloween season, Sweet and Sour report on this week’s Tricks and Treats in the regional art world.
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Sweet: “This was a really active week in the visual arts scene all over the state.”
Sour: “Yeah, there was almost too much going on.”
Sweet: “That says a lot for WV’s art scene; it got kind of moribund for a while for a while; Suddenly, there’s a plethora of good art being shown and made. Signs of life everywhere.”
Sour: “Some of my favorite things I ran across this week actually had a Halloween theme. Not just the usual corporate, mass -produced corny stuff, but real inventive visual art. Most hilariously surreal has to be infamous Huntington surreal artist Allen Toney’s video and “electronic scat” song featuring the Scooby Doo Gang and an odd dancing baby. Check it out:

Also, there are a number of area artists/musicians who have made some inventive videos on You Tube. Some of them are really good. The surreal ones by Allen Toney and Gene Surber are outstanding. Try ‘Albert Hoffman’s Hat,’ an Acid Jazz Rap song extolling the virtues of psychedelics and the first (real) LSD trip by Albert Hoffman. It features a W.S. Burroughs-esq “rap/intro” cut up from various Timothy Leary recordings by Toney and Suber.

Gene Surber showcases some of his other outstanding videos and a host of other area musicians/video artists in the area. Check out this link and and tell us which ones you think work best as videos and songs. Anyone know any other regional area artists and musicians doing outstanding music videos? Let us know! Got to run check out yet another art show that opened recently. Check in with you later.
Sweet
& Sour…..

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