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When I was playing Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” (1949) starting in 2019, I slept all day.
Painting the moon in particular has become a lifelong project, like a diary of where I’ve been: I’ve painted it behind my grandmother’s crystal vase, which I filled with flowers and set up on a stool in Maine [where I spend each summer].
I love Afrobeat, and it’s as if you’re in a club in Accra, Ghana, or Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
One of the best places is Smalls, a club [in the West Village] that goes almost all night long.
Miles Davis used to walk the streets at night.
For two years, Sonny Rollins would only play his horn day and night on the Williamsburg Bridge.
I lug my easels up one by one.
I don’t bring any other light — if I have too much, I can’t see the night sky.
I’ve caught it as it kissed the Empire State Building.
Think of Lee Krasner in the late 1950s and early ’60s, in the studio all night, teaching herself to paint with a new palette of black, white and umber, because she believed that colors could be understood only under natural light; of Alvin Baltrop in the ’70s and ’80s, wandering the decaying West Side piers with his camera, documenting the lives of runaways and cruisers, drag queens and artists and criminals (and aren’t those two sometimes one and the same); of Louise Bourgeois in the mid-90s, sketching upright in bed as she stared down insomnia and creating an astonishing 220 drawings over eight sleep-denied months.
I’m working with the six chapters in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” (1818) that are narrated by the so-called creature.
Langston Hughes titled his second autobiography “I Wonder as I Wander” (1956), and that describes me to a T.
Dizzy’s was started a couple of decades ago by [the Jazz at Lincoln Center artistic director] Wynton Marsalis, a friend of mine from New Orleans.
I’m removing all of the text from one chapter, apart from places where the syllables of solfège [“do,” “re,” “mi,” “fa,” etc.] appear, and then will work with the mezzo-soprano Hai-Ting Chinn to perform the resulting score.
Headlines around the world were saying that “The Simpsons” was canceled.
“The Simpsons” keeps going.
“Futurama” has come and gone and come again.
That would be “Homer’s Barbershop Quartet,” from Season 5.
Matt Groening used to have every episode memorized.
Every time they do a new episode, it squeezes an older episode out of his brain.
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