Avant-garde performance artist and pop icon Laurie Anderson. Smithsonian American Art Museum Laurie Anderson's career has ranged far and wide since she emerged in the 1970s as an avant-garde ...

Calling Laurie Anderson a musician doesn't do her justice. At all. Born Laura Philips Anderson in 1947 in a small town in Illinois, the artist is one of those rare human beings who deserves to be ...