Walmart Heirs Launch New Music Festival in Bid to Make Arkansas an Art Destination
Featuring interactive art installations and technological demonstrations, headliners include Rüfüs Du Sol, Phoenix, Khruangbin, Beach House, The War on Drugs, Herbie Hancock and the Flaming Lips. Featured artists include Doug Aitken, Nick Cave and Maurizio Cattelan’s Toiletpaper magazine.
... musicians will also perform in non-traditional locations—a barn converted into what organizers call a “disco madhouse,” a speakeasy and hidden spots in the forest that encircles the 250-acre festival site.
Other highlights will include a maze constructed from plastic bottles discarded by Bentonville residents and sex therapy sessions from hypnotherapist and erotic jewelry designer Betony Vernon, per the WSJ.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_(Cattelan)
In September 2019, America was installed at Blenheim Palace in the United Kingdom, where it was available for use as part of an exhibition of Cattelan's works. It was placed in a water closet formerly used by Winston Churchill.
On 14 September, the sculpture was stolen. A representative of Blenheim had earlier commented that because America was plumbed in, and potential thieves would be aware of its use, security was not much of an issue. Because it had been connected to the building's water pipes, the theft caused structural damage and flooding to the World Heritage Site. Two men were arrested and released in connection with the incident. Cattelan commented: "I always liked heist movies and finally I'm in one of them."
the Walmart heirs are too rich.
People bitch when the Walmart heirs try to so something nice for the community:
As to the festival itself...All festivals start out small and struggling. In my hometown a festival started in the late 1950s started with just a small gathering of local merchants and after a couple of years attracted a few artists and began to look like this:
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within a decade or so it looked like this:
Until it looked like this
(and this is not one of the really crowded days)
Rich people begin to look to their legacy as they get older. A few examples:
Carnegie - 3000 libraries, Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), helped fund the Tuskegee Institute, Carnegie Hall, laid the basis of what would eventually become TIAA-CREF to fund pensions for his workers at Homestead Steel Works and for university professors and the list goes on.
Rockefeller - gave away quite a bit starting when he was 16. He funded (or held fund) the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary (now Spelman College) which wiped out their debt, funded the University of Chicago, formed the General Education Board and the list goes on...
You can take the money, yes it will be their vision but the money is being freely given, take it and try to form something that may be long lasting and impactful or just bitch and moan that they are too rich and lose out.
It's about the only thing that separates us from wild beasts. 
The comma is a necessity. 
