Weekend Reading: August 18 Edition

Around Columbus

• Get to Sarah Gormley Gallery by Wednesday if you want to experience the sound installation This is a Black Neighborhood, by past Aminah Robinson fellow Allie Martin.
• Tuesday, Ohio State’s Thompson Library opens the exhibition Abject Object: Feminism, Art & the Academy. Participating artists include Paloma Martínez-Cruz, Gina Osterloh, and Carmen Winant.
• Wednesday, Clintonville art space It Looks Like It’s Open will host an open meetup for the Columbus Collage Collective.
• Columbus Underground argued that the city is currently experiencing a golden era for local comedy.
• Matter connected with Urban Arts Space’s first Community Artist-in-Residence, Arris J. Cohen.
• There’s also this feature on artist and cartoonist Raehgan Buchanan following her mural work in Hilltop.
• Don’t forget, your first chance to check out the Wex’s autumn exhibitions is Thursday night, and the exhibiting artists will be talking together Wednesday.

Around the Globe

• The New York Film Festival announced more premieres for this year’s edition that include new works by David Cronenberg, Harmony Korine, Hayao Miyazaki, and Benny Safdie.
• Filmmaker Saeed Roustaee has been charged by the Iranian government of spreading propaganda for screening his new film at Cannes.
• The CBC spoke to filmmaker Ira Sachs and others about charges that the Motion Picture Association has a double standard when it comes to LGBTQ sex on screen.
• The New York Times wondered whether Hollywood would learn some key lessons from Barbie.
• After taking a five-year break from filmmaking, Lynne Ramsay has a new film coming with Joaquin Phoenix and another one with Jennifer Lawrence in development.
• Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi discussed why she’s moved on from comics.
• Two Marian University professors wrote about how they use graphic novels to teach math and physics.
• In a move that locals are calling an eyesore, the Philadelphia Museum of Art installed an ad for the new DC movie Blue Beetle on its steps.
• Louisville’s Speed Art Museum is getting a three-acre sculpture garden.
• Following its purchase of the Marcel Breuer-designed building that once housed the Whitney, Sotheby’s has announced it will preserve a site-specific work across the street by Charles Simonds.
• A city maintenance project will keep Anish Kapoor’s giant bean sculpture off limits until sometime next year.
• Marilyn Minter wrote about her new photography book, Elder Sex.
• Photographer Roland F. Freeman died at the age of 87.