I just got back from the Beckett Shorts production – a collection of short Beckett plays at the New York Theatre Workshop directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and featuring new music by Philip Glass with video by my good friend Mirit Tal. Eh Joe is the fourth play in the lineup, and is [...]
Iranian president Ahmadinejad is arriving in New York tomorrow to address the United Nations General Assembly. Impulsively, as an Israeli first and a New Yorker second, instant thoughts come to my mind – how can they let this guy come to the states? After his words and actions over the past years. He is one [...]
Yesterday I got this pamphlet (above) in the mail. A bunch of us were working at my studio, and as I showed it to everyone we all cracked up at the idea. A hurricane in NYC? You gotta be joking. The idea of something disrupting this massive city from its daily routine seemed farfetched.
Weirdly enough, [...]