“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today,” advises the late James Dean on a poster mounted in a hallway at the U.S. consulate in Chennai. As far as I was concerned, his latter point was especially well taken: It was Aug. 14, and I was feeling quite nervous about my … Read more
Greetings from Mumbai, where I am ensconced in my hotel room. I’ll be performing Citizen Josh this evening at Mumbai University. (Showtime is 6:30 p.m., for those of you in the area.) In my room they’ve left these two specimens of a rather testicular-looking fruit. Can anyone identify them? Are they safe for consumption? And … Read more
For the past month or so, I have been working on my first ever commissioned piece: Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? Running from — yikes! — Jan. 10-18 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco (which commissioned the work), it will be my personal response to one of their current exhibits: Warhol’s Jews: … Read more