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# Klaus Biesenbach Responds “… Lady Gaga is an artist”
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/biesenbach-gaga-is-an-artist/
- Published: 2010-04-11T16:54:45.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:41:24.000Z
- Description: Today, David Byrne backtracked on his blog about his statement that Biesenbach told him that Lady Gaga wasn’t an artist … but the reason doesn’t seem clear …
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, David Byrne, Klaus Biesenbach, Lady Gaga, MoMA, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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Apologies to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

[David Byrne backtracked on his blog](http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2010/04/040810-mea-culpa.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) about his statement that [Biesenbach told him that Lady Gaga wasn’t an artist](https://hyperallergic.com/david-byrne-klaus-biesenbach-lady-gaga/) … but the reason doesn’t seem clear:

> “In that entry I quoted a MoMA curator without fact checking or asking permission — I’m learning journalism the hard way. Klaus Biesenbach wrote, correcting me, ‘Of course Lady Gaga is an artist.’ He also wrote that he hopes to work with her someday.”

So … Biesenbach didn’t say that Gaga wasn’t an artist or is he having second thoughts? Did the Haus of Gaga get to him? So many questions but the bigger question is: Is Lady Gaga a GOOD or GREAT artist?

*If you don’t know the* Whatever Happened to Baby Jane *reference, watch* [*this*](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zYmVHFcx%5Fo&ref=hyperallergic.com) *(03:03 specifically) — p.u.r.e. c.a.m.p. g.o.l.d.*