What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
It is a hard question for me cause I can't say that any one work caused an art epiphany, my head is always spinning. As a child I...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
A Mark Rothko retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 1998. Standing in a large room with those large, luminescent works vibrating all...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Shakespeare's play King Lear, which I saw for the first time at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. in 1968. It made me understand for the...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The most influential artistic experience of my life was seeing the original Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo at the Lyric when I six years...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Some experiences of great art are electric, dramatic. I'm thinking of the effect on the viewer, or reader, of Van Gogh's swirling,...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
My first art form was music. I got my first set of drums when I was 14 years old. Within a few years I was playing in a number of bands...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The Shining by Stanley Kubrick - Specifically the music in the film. How could you know at 15 years old that abstract sound could be just...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
I guess it's too cliché to say Rent, so I won't. What I will say is when Les Miserables came to Baltimore, I saw it at the Mechanic. I...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
When I was five years old, my Dad took me to see a movie with Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye. It was called The Five Pennies. I saw Louis...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
When I was fifteen, my high school on Long Island put on a production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Prior to that, I had not been...
