The actor and musician who was once a major downtown New York celebrity now devotes himself to painting and occasionally getting into arguments on Twitter.
The once-ubiquitous figure in independent and underground film and music culture returns with a new album.
Why did John Lurie disappear?
John Lurie, back then, by Hanna Hedren.
Asher this morning, “I woke up at 5AM blinked, then it was 6:45. How did that happen?”
John Lurie is well known for a number of things; from fusing avant garde jazz and No Wave music with the Lounge LIzards in late 70s New York to his acting work in the films of Jim Jarmusch (not to mention his many scoring credits.) Though dogged by his fair share of bad luck—including being struck with chronic Lyme disease, and his travails with alleged stalker John Perry (which we have covered previously on Dangerous Minds)—Lurie has always managed to retain his impeccable sense of cool, making him a hero for many. One area of Lurie’s life that I personally didn’t know much about till now was his artwork. Since being affected by Lyme disease in 2000, Lurie has been focussed intently on his work with the canvas and brush, work which contains equal measures of absurd humor and genuine insight, even if it’s refracted through an almost child-like naiveté. Last week my friends at the blog Generation Bass managed to get a short, exclusive interview with Lurie about his artwork. Having not covered this aspect of his prolific output here on Dangerous Minds before, I am glad to be able to republish some of...
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This week in the magazine, Tad Friend writes about the strange disappearance of the downtown artist John Lurie, known in the eighties for his band the …
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Writer Tad Friend finds out what happened to the downtwon artist and musician John Lurie.
John Lurie, whose band, the Lounge Lizards, was one of the most acclaimed jazz groups of the eighties and nineties, has recorded twenty-two albums and has acted in several films, including Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law, and The Last Temptation of Christ. Lurie also wrote, directed, and starred in the television series Fishing with John, which was shown on IFC and Bravo. For the last four years, he has been concentrating primarily on his painting, which can be seen at strangeandbeautiful.com.
By Todd McGovern - No one epitomized the melding of music and art that took place in downtown Manhattan of the 1970s and early 1980s more than John Lurie. He didn’t so much burst onto the scene as help create the scene itself. To this day, John Lurie escapes categorization – Lurie is a self-taught musician, painter, actor, director and storyteller.
An artist, painter, musician, composer, bandleader, reluctant actor and frustrated fishing-show host, Lurie isn’t easily pinned down or described. He’s mostly a force of nature.
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He ruled the New York rock underground in the ‘80s, acted for Jarmusch and Scorsese, made two cult TV shows, and survived addiction and chronic illness. Now, at 71, he has a 56-song album in the can—and a few more things to cross off his bucket list.
An artist, painter, musician, composer, bandleader, reluctant actor and frustrated fishing-show host, Lurie isn’t easily pinned down or described. He’s mostly a force of nature.
I became familiar with the work of John Lurie in mid 80's when a friend put in a cassette tape during an intoxicating balmy night on Aegean coast of Turkey with meandering sounds of Lounge Lizards mixing into the starry skies above. Since then, I have listened to more of his music, watched the...
