Agenda

Exhibit runs Sept. 15-May 31, 2008, free with museum admission, Mercer Museum, 84 S. Pine St., Doylestown. Opening reception Fri., Sept. 14, 7-9 p.m., exhibit runs through Sept. 30, Aphrodite Gallery, 704 S. Fifth St.

Formed by French-Philadelphian guitarist/accordionist Alban Bailly, Inzinzac (named for a small town in France) plays Bailly's maddeningly complex Balkan-jazz compositions. Reticence has always been Suzanne Vega's thing; it's what makes her such a masterful observer. Yeah, yeah, we know, these globally directed Brooklynites were just here last month. But here's the thing — most of you didn't see them.

Assassins explores the twisted minds of nine people who held such extreme dislike for a U.S. president, or simply craved attention, enough so that they were moved to take dire action. In front of rows of raw plywood and a dozen open cans of paint stood a madman turning out nearly identical paintings at a methodical but ferocious pace. Photographer Tina Barney's images are quite large, often measuring about 4 by 5 feet, but it's the smaller, subtle details pulsing with tension that make them so haunting.