Selected Shorts: Art and Artists
Where: Symphony Space
2537 Broadway
212-864-1414 Price: $29
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Parker Posey, Dan Stevens, Heather Burns, Denis O’Hare and Rita Wolf perform funny, passionate and surprising tales about art and those who make it.
Image: Flickr — Arnold Gatilao
The unique and eclectic mix of readings includes colorful excerpts from the new edition of The Diaries of Andy Warhol; a coming-of-age story by William Boyd (from the new Everyman’s Pocket Classics collection Stories of Art and Artists); a first-person fictional account by a Downtown minimalist artist wrestling with her work; Sheila Heti‘s vibrant tale of a mermaid in a jar; new, commissioned flash fiction by Helen Phillips and Dolan Morgan, written in response to Ed Ruscha’s text-based painting currently on view at the High Line; and special guests Maria Popova from BrainPickings.org and artist and filmmaker Laurie Simmons, (The Love Doll; Walking, Talking, Lying; and the upcoming Jewish Museum exhibition How We See), who shares her artwork inspired by Heti’s story.
Hosted by Matthew Love.
This event sponsored in part by Bomb Magazine.
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