How and why do I, Bradford McCormick, differ from performance artist Laurie Anderson?
“LAURIE ANDERSON, the performance artist, has already made 25 pots of coffee at a McDonald’s in Chinatown this morning. She’s changed out of the standard Mickey D’s uniform. Now, a black Prada backpack slung over her shoulder, she’s flashing a pretty, dimpled smile as she springs up the steps outside a renovated 19th-century warehouse in TriBeCa where she has a studio loft. “It is difficult to explain why Ms. Anderson is at McDonald’s, training as a cashier, deep-frying hash browns and flipping burgers. She’s still trying to figure it out herself. “‘It’s exhilarating when you put yourself in a spot where you are really out of place,’ she says. ‘I don’t want to be a cultural tourist. I’m not so much an artist. I’m a cultural spy.’ “Her studio, or spy den, is on a bleak stretch of Canal Street, next to the Hudson River…. Ms. Anderson has written an entry about the city for the Encyclopaedia Britannica…. [When] Encyclopaedia Britannica’s executive editor, Theodore Pappas, [who] got th
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