variant
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The conceptual artist Diana, Our Lady of the Media, at last unveiled her latest music action piece to a public positively salivating with eagerness and anticipation. Earlier works by this former pupil of Wolf Vostell and one time member of Negativland had been criticised as being guache, self-indulgent and politically inept. Under the canopy of a starlit Parisian night, Homage to JG Ballard for four voices, Mercedes Benz and motorcycle cavalcade once and for all silenced even her sternest critics - that fawning ratpack whose presence she so often bemoaned.The opening paragraph from a review of Lady Diana's death, 31 August 1997, Variant no. 5.