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Every once in a while HBO will slip something strange into the lineup of shows on which it stakes its fortune — your “Game of Thrones,” your “Undoing.” Something arty for art’s sake, something odd for oddity’s sake, like Terence Nance’s “Random Acts of Flyness” or “How To with John Wilson.” They may not bring in large audiences, or dominate the chatter on social media, or prompt multiple stories in the press, but for my money, these unpredictable exceptions represent the channel at its most worthwhile. Such is John Lurie’s “Painting With John,” an idiosyncratic b...

comments In his new HBO program "Painting with John," John Lurie wants you to know that he knows the comparisons to Bob Ross are inevitable, but he's there to quickly subvert them. "None of the trees in my paintings are happy," he tells viewers as he dabs his paintbrush on to a watercolor palette. "They're all miserable." Lurie, the founder of the art-jazz band the Lounge Lizards and late-'80s and '90s indie film star, was diagnosed with Advanced Lyme disease in 2004 and ended up resettling in the Caribbean (he refuses to specify which island) after three decades in New York. There, he began ...

Mr. van Rijn? Why, meet Mr. Lurie. The film ‘My Rembrandt’ and the HBO documentary series ‘Painting with John’ explore the cultivation and creation of fine art. By Peter Keough Globe Correspondent,Updated January 21, 2021, 11:06 a.m. Email to a Friend John Lurie in "Painting With John."HBO Some people create art, others buy it. Some do both, of course, but the difference between a consumer and a producer of this commodity can be seen by comparing the documentary “ My Rembrandt” and the HBO documentary series “ Painting with John.” For years, the Duke of...