David Byrne Is Back With a Surreal Wakeup Call
<em>American Utopia</em> from the Talking Heads mastermind tunefully renders the familiar as strange and new.
by Spencer Kornhaber
Mar 09, 2018
3 minutes
When TED Talks and travel guides advise the virtues of “seeing with new eyes,” a bigger and stranger idea from Marcel Proust. Every artist is “the native of an unknown country, which he himself has forgotten,” he wrote in . “The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that
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