Join us for a discussion of the art world with art dealer Richard Polsky and listen to live music by local legend Al Perry.

Richard Polsky will discuss his new book, I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon) (Other Press, $23.95), a fascinating look at the art world told by an art dealer who was pleased to sell his Warhol painting for $320,000, seven times its original price, only to discover it might have sold for $70 million a few years later.  In this instructive, irreverent and often uproarious memoir, Polsky explains the capricious functioning of the art market and the economic and cultural forces that have transformed it in recent years.

Local legend Al Perry will celebrate his newest CD, “The Three Track Session,” by playing a short solo acoustic set.  Perry has taken home the "Hall of Fame" award in the Tucson Area Music Awards (or TAMMIES), as well as Critics Choice for Album of the Year.

This month’s featured reader is Amrit Donaldson.

Amrit will be reading from her collection of essays called “Walking the Plank.”  She writes and lives in Tucson and in New Mexico.  Her interests include pirates, sumo wrestlers, Victorian novelists, gender theory, film criticism, the radical feminism of the 1970’s, and (always) the imminence of death. 

Open Reading to Follow.
Please arrive 15 minutes early if you’d like to sign up to read.