Authors Caught Moonlighting in Visual Field

The Writer's Brush
Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow St., Cambridge
Through Sunday, January 27
617-868-2033

Everyone at one time or another wants to become something else. The actress longs to become a pilot, the congressman has late liaisons practicing his baking. Such creative experiments are no doubt good for the soul.

This week at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge is the last chance to witness rare visual works created by some of the greatest writers of the last century. The touring exhibit, which has already made its way through New York, collects over 120 poets and novelists who have since been seduced by the art world's bright colors and endless open bar receptions and features work by recognizable names such as John Updike, Jorge Louis Borges, Douglas Coupland, Sylvia Plath, Henry Miller, and Kurt Vonnegut. Mounted in conjunction with Writer's Brush, an anthologized book on the subject which is already becoming hard to find, see this extraordinary exhibit before it rolls into Los Angeles.

Bostonist can never forget Kurt Vonnegut's charming illustrations he composed for his novel, Breakfast of Champions. (Watch) Sir Vonnegut shares his late wisdom about authors and art at an early incarnation of the exhibit.

Post contributed by Brian Foley. Words of wisdom from Vonnegut.