The multi-hyphenate painter, musician, and director (to name a few hats he wears) goes in-depth with Obsessed about his life, career, and the new season of “Painting With John.”
, the 70-year-old Lurie is a raconteur with few equals.
Thus, it was our supreme honor to speak with Lurie about departing from formula, filming the act of creativity, his disdain for young people’s music, and the perils of binge-watching—albeit not, of course, with regards to his own show.Painting with JohnIt’s not that kind of show, really. But I have had that thing where I’ve fallen into binge-watching, and I suppose everybody has [laughs].
The thing I was grim about is the world and how little empathy and compassion there is. And not just between individuals, but like, how many refugees there are, or what’s happening in Yemen. If you start paying too much attention to it, you become paralyzed. But the music episode’s great, the Flea episode’s great, and the potato [a sequence in Episode 2] I’m really proud of. “Potato” is really something special—there’s never been anything like it before. I’m hoping that when it airs, people start a network thing, where they start yelling “Potato!” out their windows. That would be the crowning glory of my life, if that could happen.
That’s why that music-centric episode works, though—it situates itself in that magical space and lets us see the alchemy that goes into creating art.that if you got the opportunity to make a third season, you’d like to do operatic episodes in which you just talk about a given painting that you’re working on while 20-minute pieces of music play.
Not much. When I got Lyme [disease], I couldn’t listen at all, because of what it did to me neurologically for a long time. I could not hear music; I couldn’t go to a restaurant that had music playing. That’s a while ago now, when it was that bad. But still.
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