Bill Wrigley is a visual arts teacher at Stuyvesant High School. We talked about his Columbia grad school thesis on Richard Serra, the nature of creative talent, electronic music, Andy Warhol, being chased by the Italian military police after too many espressos, and studying painting at Pratt Institute in the 90s.

“There’s a saying in my home county-- you move to Boston to find yourself and to New York to lose yourself”

Bill Wrigley's website:

https://www.likethegum.com

Things mentioned:

Movie about Jean-Michel Basquiat

I Shot Andy Warhol

From A to B and Back Again book

4 hour documentary on Warhol (Youtube)

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe

Richard Serra's The Matter of Time and Torqued Ellipse

James Turrell

"Subsequent Performances" by Jonathan Miller

The Creative Act, a lecture by Marcel Duchamp

Music mentioned:

"Let's Go" by The Reducers

Techno Animal

John Cage

Gogol Bordello

Dresden Dolls

Autechre's "Gantz Graf"

Portishead

Thelonious Monk

David Bowie's album "Low"

Brian Eno's "Music for Films"

Surf Guitar

Iggy Pop's theme for Repo Man