1) For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf continues at Southwest Arts Center.
2) Spanky and the Love Handles perform at the Earl.
3) The Atlanta Braves face the New York Mets at Turner Field.
4) Photo-Griots opens at Hammonds House Museum.
5) Hoots & Hellmouth play at Park Tavern for Unplugged in the Park.
(Photo courtesy True Colors Theatre Company)
1) The Decemberists play the Tabernacle.
2) Charis Books & More hosts Stigma No More: Intersections of Mental Illness, Disability, Queerness & Race.
3) I Was a King plays the Earl.
4) Songhai to Symphony Hall continues at Hammonds House Museum.
5) Wendy Wax discusses her book, The Accidental Bestseller, at Margaret Mitchell House & Museum.
(Photo © Capitol Records)
1) Harptallica plays Smith’s Olde Bar.
2) Steve Prince’s I Know It Was the Blood opens at Hammonds House Museum with a reception and artist talk.
3) Antony & the Johnsons play the Variety Playhouse.
4) Coraline continues in area theaters.
5) Jim Warren discusses Cowlicked! Rants, Remembrances & Ruminations at Wordsmiths Books.
(Photo courtesy Harptallica)
BODY OF WORK: "El Bicho" by Tomás Esson
In El Bicho: 2008/2009, Cuban painter Tomás Esson takes a detour around the well-behaved superego and instead drives straight for the pulsing flesh of the id. The Hammonds House Museum exhibition comprises 60 of the artist’s sexiest, nastiest, most sublime works in an orgiastic feast surveying Esson’s creative output over the last 20 years.
A personal menagerie of half-human beasts and beings with confused and confusing bodies populate Esson’s large oil paintings. Rear ends substitute for breasts and a phallicized finger spits something aggressive and poisonous. (more…)
