John Lurie—saxophonist, singer, actor, director, and painter—is a true jack-of-all trades, best known for founding and leading the Lounge Lizards jazz ensemble, his performances in Jim ...

John Lurie might be the only person who feels made for these times, and he wants to help us. This past December, he announced on Twitter that he was starring in a new show he’d written and ...

John Lurie has a penchant for balancing serious artistic endeavors with the infiltrations of his tilted humor. The mild absurdity expressed in his television show Fishing with John, his paintings ...

“Painting With John” is another kind of creation altogether: a hypnotic, meandering, surreality-TV walk into the knotty jungle of Lurie’s mind that explores living as an art form in itself.

Like many great TV shows, Painting With John teaches its audience how to watch it. John Lurie—writer, director, musician, and star of the series—introduces a general blueprint in the first ...

Musician, actor and painter John Lurie muses on art and life from a tropical island in this idiosyncratic new documentary series.

John Lurie: ‘If I could teach people anything, it would be about living in the moment’ As the musician and artist’s cult TV series ‘Painting With John’ returns, he tells Kevin E G Perry ...

John Lurie was a ubiquitous figure in independent and underground film and music culture in the 1980s and 90s. He recently traded in his instruments for a painter's brush, but now is returning to ...

John Lurie is back on HBO for more watercolor making, light philosophy, random comedy, and soothing viewing quality in season 3 of Painting With John.

His new series for HBO, “Painting With John,” is a meditative and often joyful blend of painting and personal storytelling. But Bob Ross it isn’t.

Among other things, John Lurie is a reality-television pioneer. A musician who founded jazz group the Lounge Lizards and who moonlighted as an actor in films such as Jim Jarmusch’s “Down By ...

HBOJohn Lurie—saxophonist, singer, actor, director, and painter—is a true jack-of-all trades, best known for founding and leading the Lounge Lizards jazz ensemble, his performances in Jim Jarmusch’s ...