Weekend Reading: August 23 Edition

Around Ohio

• Columbus Monthly started dropping some of its Best of Columbus winners online, including Brioso Coffee barista and latte artist Haley Henderson, as well as the Wexner Center Store.
• Ohio University is renaming its fine arts college to commemorate philanthropists Jeffrey D. Chaddock and Mark A. Morrow.
• Attention filmmakers: Monday, the submissions portal opens for this year’s Cinema Columbus.
• Monday afternoon, Greater Columbus Arts Council is inviting artists to talk with GCAC Navigator Lorii Wallace about submitting grant applications.
• Tuesday, you can check out the new Thompson Library exhibition Essential Ingredients: Cookbooks as History and sit in on a conversation with chef Avishar Barua.
• Also Tuesday, the Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery hosts a virtual talk with exhibiting artist Peter Christian.
• And Streetlight Guild is screening an archive interview with Toni Morrison Tuesday as part of the Morrisonian Life Series facilitated by artist Tiffany Lawson.
• Wednesday, Two Dollar Radio is hosting a panel on poetry, art, and activism that will include Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Sa’dia Rehman.
• There’s also an adult coloring night Wednesday at 934 Gallery.
• Thursday brings the opening of new music venue Sweeney’s Walnut Street Tavern.
• Looking ahead, next weekend is your last chance to catch the critically acclaimed Actors’ Theatre production of An Iliad in Schiller Park.
• And Friday, Columbus Museum of Art is brining its BAM series to the space below Janet Echelman’s Current.
   

Around the Globe

• Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings announced plans to turn part of Utah’s Powder Mountain ski resort into a public art park. Reportedly current Wex exhibiting artist Nancy Holt has been tapped for a commission, which would really be something, given that the artist passed away in 2014. (Holt’s 1986 work Pipeline is looking amazing in and around our building, btw.)
• The Washington Post killed its “In the Galleries” series.
• Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a statue of his wife, Priscilla Chan. So that happened.
• A writer reflected on the Holocaust-era romance between his mother and artist Edgar Reich, which survives through the drawings and watercolors that Reich made during it.
• Check out the winners of the 2024 iPhone Photography Awards.
• Artnet looked back at the time when Brian Eno allegedly used Marcel Duchamp’s seminal found object work Fountain as it was originally intended.
• Our upcoming 70mm screenings of Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest were called out by the Film Foundation.
• The Washington Post looked at the legacy of great directors in the Alien franchise.
• The trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s pet project Megalopolis has been pulled following charges that the critics’ quotes featured in it aren’t real.
• If you haven’t already experienced its random pleasures, here’s a catchup on why Criterion 24/7, the livestream from the Criterion Channel, is worth a look.
• The New York Times covered the phenomenon of hate watching.
• Here’s a reminder of the potential problems with clicking “accept” on terms of service agreements without reading them.
• And here’s a related story about Disney’s move to add arbitration clauses to every user agreement.
• Here’s a look at how the country’s two political parties used pop music at their conventions.
• The Guardian commemorated 50 years of the uniquely influential British theater company Paines Plough.
• The League of Live Stream Theater is working to make live performance more accessible online.
• There’s been an arrest in the bizarre, ongoing saga involving fraud and the Graceland mansion.
• Betty Cooke, a Baltimore jewelry designer whose influential minimalist works were collected by a number of museums, passed away at 100.
• Iconic French actor Alain Delon died at the age of 88.