Which of these artists or groups have you heard of? (Please check all that apply.)

I expected the list to be longer...and first thought you only meant music artists. Presumptous of me I guess.

My God! What jumble! I've heard about some of them, but really don't like much any of them...

hmm. about 60%. not bad

Madonna is cool.

Who's Pat Keck?

I suspect that I've even heard the majority of these in a single evening at the home of a friend of mine who shall remain steve... Maureen Tucker - ah yes. elijahblue - when did writers of fiction cease to be artists? And Steve never mentioned musicians at all - he said "groups". BMG may include music in their performance, but they're not what you'd think of as "musicians". Stop making so many assumptions.

Out of curiosity, why just these? Is it a personal "My friends think I listen to weird music" thing? If so, I understand. Elijahblue - writers are artists. Thank you, jefff, for dusting off the label =).

eclectic mix, there.

Gee, I feel so uncultured.

Warhol an artist in the sense of paintin shakespeare a writer (unless there's another william shakespeake) and madonna's a singer

As for Shakespeare, I'd have preferred never hearing of him. Highly over rated.

I have works from all of these artists in my home except for Madonna and Pussy Tourette. Hi steve! Naifnaifnaif!

...only I don't consider a few of them "artists" at all.

i would add: crash worship and charles bukowski

Okay, now that you've voted.... Laurie Anderson: seminal performance art goddess; she was multimedia before the term was coined. Margaret Atwood: Author and poet, famous for "The Handmaid's Tale", definitely read "The Robber Bride". Blue Man Group: Theater/mime/percussion troupe; difficult to describe. Karen Finley: Angry woman, poet/performance artist, one of the "NEA Four". Pat Keck: Sculptor; creates vivid, powered, interactive pieces. Paul Klee: "Modern" painter, semi-abstract; I don't know exactly why he appeals to me, but he does, a lot. Madonna: Here as a control. Ann Magnuson: Former lead singer of Bongwater, has appeared in movies and a TV series, now does one-woman theater. Pussy Tourette: Big old drag queen, does queer rock/pop/disco. Paul Rudnick: The funniest man alive, wrote "Social Disease", "I'll Take It", "Jeffrey", "The Naked Eye", "In and Out"; script doctor for a ton of movies, including "Addams Family Values" and "The First Wives' Club". William Shakespeare: Another control. Throwing Muses: Recently defunct [sob] avant-rock band. Maureen Tucker: Drummer for the Velvet Underground. Andy Warhol: Intended as another control, although I was told that not everyone has heard of him, so I got curious. The reason for the question is that I was fortunate enough recently to acquire front-row tickets to see Laurie Anderson, and when I said "Oh my God! I have front-row tickets to see Laurie Anderson!" a surprising number of people said "Who?" ***Crash Worship rule! I've never read any Bukowski.

Who are all these people? I have heard of four of them.

In some cases, I only know that I've heard of them, I couldn't actually tell you much about them (eg, karen finley, throwing muses). I'm drawing a blank on what Margaret Atwood has written, but I'm pretty sure she's an author and that I've read and own some of her stuff.

Atwood, Klee, Madonna, Shakespeare and Warhol.