A Fine Example Of Art

A Fine Example of Art

About the AuthorJohn Lurie-musician, actor, producer and, most recently, exhibiting painter-was born in Minneapolis in 1952. Having first emerged in the late 1970s as a saxophone player leading the avant-garde New York jazz group the Lounge Lizards, Lurie has since established himself time and time again as a formidable presence in the New York cultural scene. Recognizable from his scoring and acting, Lurie has scored over 20 films and starred in several cult film and TV classics, including Stranger than Paradise, Down By Law, and Fishing with John, which he also wrote and directed. He was nominated for a Grammy award for the score of Get Shorty. Lurie has been a visual artist since the 1970s, and has exhibited his works at Anton Kern Gallery and Roebling Hall, New York, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, the Montreal Musuem of Fine Arts, and in 2008, the new Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg. In 2006, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center hosted Lurie's first solo museum exhibition, John Lurie: Works on Paper.Glenn O'Brien has written for Rolling Stone, Oui, Artforum, Spin, Vanity Fair, Italia, Paper, and L'Uomo Vogue, but his earliest gig was as the editor and art designer at Andy Warhol's fledgling project Interview. In 1976 he formed the band Konelrad, which played the CBGB circuit as the world's first socialist-realist rock band. He spent the late 70s and early 80s launching Glenn O'Brien's TV Party on Manhattan Cable TV's public access channel and writing and producing Downtown 81, starring Jean-Michel Basquiat. He currently serves as the creative director of Barneys Advertising, created advertising for such clients as Calvin Klein, Ian Schrager Hotels, Swatch, Dior, Nike, Armani, Fila, Rock the Vote, among many others. His books include The Style Guy, Soapbox (essays), and the poetry collection Human Nature (dub version). He is editor of the literary magazine Bald Ego and has a novel forthcoming.Steve Buscemi is an actor best known for his supporting roles in films including Reservoir Dogs, Fargo, and Con Air. He has also received acclaim as a leading man, notably in Terry Zwigoff