UNDER THE INFLUENCE

EDVARD MUNCH’S ‘THE SCREAM’

he 1893 portrait of a figure howling existentially has consistently inspired Cage, who’s talked about aping it forand elsewhere. “Looking for characters who had some sort of emotional or mental difficulty,” he once said, “I saw opportunities to express [myself] in a way that could get a bit surreal, like Francis Bacon’s screaming pope, or .”