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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Artsy This Week's Mecury Arts Section
Posted by Alison Hallett on Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:47 PM
Another week, another scintillatingly entertaining and devastatingly insightful arts section.
VISUAL ARTS:
Matt Stangel interviews local sculptor Meredith Dittmar about her kid-oriented show at Black Wagon, and why Portland won't be seeing any of her more ambitious new work anytime soon.
BOOKS:
I review two books that can rightly be categorized as "memoir-ish": Ariel Gore's new book Bluebird takes on the subject of female happiness, and I lose five feminist bonus points for not particularly liking it; and Nick Flynn considers parenthood in the age of state-sanctioned torture in The Ticking is the Bomb, which I found considerably more insightful and relatable than Gore's book (The Ticking is the Biological Clock was Flynn's alternate title*).
THEATER:
Portland Playhouse's Willow Jade, about a couple of D&D-playing nerds and their dysfunctional relationships with the (admittedly two-dimensional) women around them. It's a really goofy, funny show, and I liked it quite a bit; it's currently running as part of the Fertile Ground festival, but Portland Playhouse just announced a two-week extension, through Feb 14.
*No it wasn't.
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