Yuri Lane needs to get beyond the noisy fame
Popularity is a weird thing in the arts. After Yuri Lane, the Chicago-based performance artist and self-styled "human beatbox," placed video clips of his work on YouTube, he quickly scored, he tells us, almost 9 million views. With his video now officially viral (as these things are known), Lane's phone immediately began to ring with offers from talk-show producers, TV shows looking to license his work and exploit hi…