Laurie Anderson Talks About Fleeting Freedom and America Turning 250

Laurie Anderson is performing a show titled “Republic of Love” at SummerStage in New York’s Central Park on June 26, as part of the 40th-anniversary season of the City Parks Foundation’s outdoor concert series. She’ll be backed by Sexmob, a downtown jazz band that grew out of the free-improv scene around the Knitting Factory in the 1990s, and she’ll be singing songs of hers in the midst of other contributions by fellow American visionaries like Bob Dylan, Lou