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Thursday, June 17, 2010

This week's features: Bret Easton Ellis, reviews for Sandler Hudson Gallery and Pinch n' Ouch Theatre

Posted by Debbie Michaud on Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:06 PM

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Bret Easton Ellis raises hell in Imperial Bedrooms, his follow-up to 1985's nihilistic opus Less Than Zero. CL contributor Russ Marshalek considers how "Zero's empty characters defined a generation. ... In the two-and-a-half decades since the New York Times' notoriously unflappable critic Michiko Kakutani called the book "one of the most disturbing novels I've read in a long time," Zero's glassy-eyed recklessness has thoroughly infiltrated pop culture. Its influence can be found in the tortured, pedophiliac stalk of Interpol's music; the culture-addled missives of writer Tao Lin; and the hedonism of the pretty young things on 'Gossip Girl.'"

Deanna Sirlin visited Sandler Hudson Gallery where "Two artists explore their personal obsessions in simultaneous shows ... . In the front gallery, Bay Area abstract painter John Belingheri offers endless compositional changes on elliptical forms, while Atlanta-based artist Pam Longobardi celebrates the publication of her book Drifters with installations in the project space and on the rooftop."

Curt Holman reviews Pinch n' Ouch Theatre's inaugural Atlanta production of Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty. "reasons to be pretty follows LaBute's The Shape of Things and Fat Pig in a theatrical trilogy unified by a focus on our culture's obsession with physical appearances."

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