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According to Dorothy Spears of the New York Times, the strobe lights flicker hypnotically and the dancers move robotically when the haunting face of the chanteuse Nico appears in “Exploding Plastic Inevitable,” the 1966 road show of art, music and film organized by Andy Warhol. Mr. Reed may have been among the first rock ’n’ roll stars to embrace art and film as inspiration. But he is certainly not the last, as “Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967,” a highly anticipated exhibition opening this weekend at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, clearly demonstrates.

While Ms. Anderson’s career was flourishing, David Byrne was ricocheting from painting to photography to video to conceptual art, first at the Rhode Island School of Design and then at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Abandoning art school, he moved to New York in 1972.

Attracted to punk rock’s disregard for virtuosity, artists waiting for their big break in galleries began taking up musical instruments in the 1970s. “So many artists played in bands,” said Robert Longo, who in 1977 formed one called Menthol Wars with his fellow artist Richard Prince. “It was amazing to hear music that sounded how your art looked.”

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