Humor
fromThe New Yorker
13 years agoPortrait of the Artist
Reclusive, eccentric man with elaborate daily rituals and absurd habits captivates the art world despite never creating conventional art.
Two actors are wriggling across the stage on their bellies. They're earthworms, or maybe simply brothers, Cricket and Coyote, who want to become earthworms. They're planning to write a screenplay together, and one suggests making their movie about worms. But "I thought we were writing something about what it means to come from the same root," the other brother complains. "A movie, a Western, brothers killing men and running amuck in the desert."