I'm pleased as various flavors of punch to announce the Commonwealth Reading Series, a statewide series of readings featuring literary fellows and finalists from the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Program. There are five events in all, with the first on January 8 at Boston's Grub Street and subsequent events continuing to the end February. If you have … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2008
Elects: a roundup
Fiber artist Adrienne Sloane sent us the above image of jewelry depicted (in an unfinished form) in her recent Studio Views. It's called the Inaugural Necklace and Bracelet (and if anyone can get them into the First Lady-elect's hands, let us know!). Speaking of -elects... via Modern Art Notes is the news that former Whitney and SFMOMA director David Ross has posted on … [Read more...]
The Sopranos
Otis B. Driftwood: Youre willing to pay him a thousand dollars a night just for singing? Why, you can get a phonograph record of Minnie the Moocher for 75 cents. And for a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie.- Groucho Marx from A Night at the Opera, 1935 Apparently it is all the rage. It being a program called The Met: Live in HD, which started in 2006 and has grown into … [Read more...]
Kristin Bock talks Cloisters
Kristin Bock (Poetry Fellow '06) recently published the poetry collection Cloisters, winner of the Tupelo Press First Book Award. We spoke to her about her new book and her art (literary and otherwise), and the conversation ranged from Pre-Raphaelites to stealing her father's apprentice to the benefit of ungentle critiques to writing about a Space-Age Paul Bunyan. … [Read more...]
Deadline day: a roundup
It's deadline day for our Artist Fellowships applications (Fri, Dec. 5). Which means: not so much time for blogging today. But interesting stuff is still happening all over the wonder-ific web-o-sphere, and here's some of it: Elizabeth Graver, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow from 2006 (and terrific writer and mind), gives Paper Cuts (the NY Times book blog) some … [Read more...]