This Week in the Mercury
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Artsy This Week's Mecury Arts Section!
Posted by Alison Hallett on Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:14 PM
Finally, the blog post you've all been waiting for.
In Visual Arts/Performance:
Matt Stangel writes about the newly hatched "Art Party"—a monthly first Friday show at Branx, curated by painter Sarah Gottesdiener and Erase Errata's Jenny Hoyston, that aims to bring together artists working in different disciplines. Stangel hopes the series will "provide needed focus for Southeast's ranging, multi-neighborhood art walk."
In Books:
Tony Perez reviews Don Delillo's new novel Point Omega.
I review the new issue of Granta—truth be told, this was a last-minute panic review, because a review copy of Joshua Ferris' The Unnamed didn't arrive in time. (Ferris will be town next week; I'd hoped to run a review of his new novel in conjunction with the reading.) It all worked out in the end, though; not only is there some great writing in Granta (including a fascinating article by Daniel Alarcon about Peruvian book piracy, which you can read right here), but a chapter of the Unnamed actually appears in the magazine.
I interview Wells Tower, author of the short story collection Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned—but don't read the interview yet, because I'll have an extended version of our interview online soon.
And of course, our online calendars are here for you: Books; Visual Arts; Performance. Go!
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