A History of the World (in Dingbats): Drawings & Words

About David Byrne

David Byrnes practice spans photography performance drawing illustration video design and publishing. In 1975 he cofounded the seminal group Talking Heads. Byrnes exuberant and radical creativity has challenged classifications of art for decades. His Bicycle Diaries was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and his How Music Works was a New York Times bestseller as well as an Amazon Editors pick and a Best Book of the Month. His hit Tony Awardwinning theatrical concert American Utopia was adapted by Spike Lee into a concert film that premiered on HBO and received multiple Emmys. Alex Kalman is a curator designer editor journalist and filmmaker. He is the owner of What Studio? and director of Mmuseumm. His exhibitions have been shown at The Metropolitan Museum of Art the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. He is a contributor to the New York Times the Atlantic and the New Yorker.