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Call Me Walt
2021, after excerpts from Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman’s Oscar-winning musical scoring of Walt Disney Productions’ Oscar-nominated Best Picture of 1964 “Mary Poppins”, as well as the following:
• Yousuf Karsh's photographic portraiture of Walt Disney in 1956
• Raphael’s 1518 oil-on-canvas “Self-Portrait with a Friend”
• Rembrandt’s 1628 oil-on-canvas self-portrait
• Simonet’s
Love is patient, love is kind
2020, after the Adagio from Rachmaninoff's 1907 Symphony No. 2 in E minor, as well as the following:
• Gilles Pétard's 1943 photographic portraiture of Billie Holiday
• RKO Radio Pictures’ Oscar-nominated Best Picture of 1939 “Love Affair”
• Columbia Pictures & John Carpenter’s 1984 film “Starman”
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s 1938 film “Love Finds Andy Hardy”
Sekhmet's Gaze
2020, after Babatunde Olatunji's 1959 performance of the Nigerian folk song "Oyin Momo Ado" and Picasso's 1907 oil-on-canvas painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
It Happened on Gurley Boulevard, or: She Was a Klansman's Daughter
2016, after Bessie Smith's 1931 A-side single "I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl", as well as the following:
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1926 silent film "Flesh and the Devil"
• Paramount Pictures' 1927 silent film "It"
• Fox Film Corporation's 1928 transitional sound film "Street Angel"
• Aaron Douglas' 1936 oil-on-canvas painting "Aspi
Hildebrandt Bridge Scene, 1957
2020, after Dave Brubeck's 1958 composition "Brandenburg Gate", as well as the following:
• Alfred Hitchcock & Paramount Pictures' 1954 film "Rear Window"
• RKO Radio Pictures' 1940 film "Stranger on the Third Floor"
• "Nocturne" from Miró's 1940-41 gouache-and-oils series "Constellations"
• Aert van der Neer's (Aernout) c. 1648-1650 oil-on-canvas painting "Moonlit Landsc
When "Democracy" is a Dirty Word....
2020, after King Crimson’s 1969 B-side single "21st Century Schizoid Man", as well as the following:
• Charles Chaplin Productions' Oscar-nominated Best Picture of 1940 "The Great Dictator"
• RKO Radio Pictures' Oscar-nominated Best Picture of 1941 "Citizen Kane"
• Marshall Curry’s 2018 Oscar-nominated documentary short film “A Night at the Garden”
Brocksmith No. 2
2020, after James Brown & the J.B.’s 1973 A-side single “The Boss”, as well as the following:
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s 1971 film “Shaft”
• 20th Century-Fox's 1972 film “Trouble Man”
• Warner Bros.-Seven Arts’ 1968 film “Bullitt”
• American International Pictures’ 1972 film “Slaughter”
• Giaccometti’s 1949 oil-on-canvas painting “Seated Man”
“Brother George, or: Can’t Nobody Breathe”
2020, after Prince’s 1983 cover of the 19th-century Negro spiritual “Mary Don’t You Weep”, as well as the following:
• Universal Pictures & 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks’ 1989 film “Do the Right Thing”
• Netflix & Dave Chappelle's 2020 performance special "8:46"
• Columbia Pictures & John Singleton's 1991 film "Boyz n the Hood"
"Four Liverpudlians in Orbit"
2014, after The Beatles' 1967 A-side single "Strawberry Fields Forever", as well as the following:
• Dezo Hoffmann's 1963 photographic portraiture of The Beatles
• Apple Films' 1968 animated feature film "Yellow Submarine"
• Dalí's 1931 oil-on-canvas painting "The Persistence of Memory"
• Escher’s 1960 lithograph print "Ascending and Descending"
"Whoville's Darkest Night"
2020, after an excerpt from Bernard Herrmann's musical scoring of 20th Century-Fox’s 1947 film "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir", as well as the following:
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1966 animated television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"
• Piero della Francesca's c. 1470-75 oil-on-canvas painting "The Nativity"
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1566 oil-on-panel painting "The
"Springtime for Birchy"
2020, after Glenn Miller & His Orchestra’s 1940 B-side single “Slumber Song”, as well as the following:
• Universal Pictures & Walter Lantz Productions’ 1941 animated short film “Woody Woodpecker”
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s 1946 animated short film “Springtime for Thomas”
• Paramount Pictures’ 1947 animated short film “Naughty but Mice”
"Portrait of a Greek Goddess Reaching Orgasm"
2017, after Serge Gainsbourg's 1962 composition “Strip-Tease”, as well as the following:
• The c. 190 B.C. Hellenistic Parian marble sculpture “Nike, the Winged Victory of Samothrace”
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s 1945 animated short film “Swing Shift Cinderella”
• Keler’s 1922 cross-swinging Bauhaus cradle
"A Planet of All Hues (...and Beyond the Infinite"
2014, after The Rolling Stones' 1967 B-side single "2000 Light Years from Home", as well as the following:
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Stanley Kubrick’s BAFTA-nominated Outstanding Film of 1968 "2001: A Space Odyssey"
• Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 film "Solaris"
• The Toei Company Ltd. & Kinji Fukasaku's 1978 film "Message from Space"
• Robert Gibson's 1984 ph
"Red After Dark"
2020, after Coleman Hawkins’ 1939 composition "Body and Soul", as well as the following:
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1943 animated short film "Red Hot Riding Hood"
• Paramount Pictures' Oscar-winning Best Picture of 1933 "She Done Him Wrong"
• New Line Cinema's 1994 film "The Mask"
"Amandla"
2022, private commission, after Miles Davis' 1989 composition of the same name