Weekend Reading: August 26 Edition

Around Columbus

• Did you hear the news about the Wex’s next executive director?
• Saturday night, past Wex artists Snarls play Ace of Cups.
• Sunday afternoon, local filmmaker Peter John Ross will be screening his new documentary Social Media Monster at Grandview Theatre.
• ICYMI, Those Who Spring of Me, the 2021 feature by local filmmakers Matt Swift and Nicolette Swift, has made it to Amazon.
• Scott Woods wrote a column for The New York Times about how maybe we don’t need more Game of Thrones.
• The Columbus Makes Art Passport is back with a new crop of participating venues.
• Here’s a check-in on Ohio’s fashion scene, including designers Celeste Malvar-Stewart and Xantha Ward.
• Wednesday, ROY G BIV is hosting a happy hour at Land Grant.
• Thursday, Blockfort is having a comics pop-up street fair to kick off the weekend.
• And if you’re not heading to the Nelsonville Music Festival for Labor Day weekend, you could check out the Shine On Festival in Clintonville Sunday.
• Or hit Sunday's Bird Tunnel Party in Glen Echo Ravine.
• Or peruse original works for your collection at the Upper Arlington Labor Day Arts Festival.

Around the globe

• We were so sad to hear of the tragic passing of jaimie branch, the trumpeter and composer who recently performed at the Wex, at the age of 39. Our sympathies are with her family and at their request, our good deeds for the week are dedicated to her.
• Frank Stella spoke to the BBC about his sculpture garden installation outside New York City.
• Kerry James Marshall wrote about Paul Cezanne for the Art Institute of Chicago’s current Cezanne retrospective.
• Black women artists participating in the Wisconsin Triennial have pulled out, citing “institutional racist violence.”
• Anonymous Was a Woman awarded $250,000 in grants to femme-identifying eco artists.
• Starting in November, the American Alliance of Museums will require job listings posted to its website to include salary information.
• After much debate, there is an official update to what defines an ideal museum.
• Here’s a first look at the International African American Museum, built on the site of a historic slave trading port.
• Veteran arts journalist Bill Marx argued that instead of championing new and innovative work, today’s arts criticism “is on life support.”
• Valerie Solanas’s notorious play Up Your Ass has finally gotten a serious publisher. Only took about 60 years.
• Dance Magazine used a work by choreographer Biba Bell as a launch point to highlight the endless possibilities for site-specific dance.
• Here’s the best interpretive dance we’ve seen this week.
• Art21’s latest video shares a fashion show with work by members of the California arts center Creative Growth.
• Changes to Instagram’s algorithm are creating headaches for artists popular on the platform.
• Due to COVID-related shipping and supply chain issues, making art has gotten more expensive.
• The art world is also facing a dire shortage of ethical cardboard.
• More art world power players are getting involved in the case involving Andy Warhol, Lynn Goldsmith’s photo portrait of Prince, and possibly copyright infringement that will be heard by the Supreme Court in October.
• There’s a new four-disc set coming next month that works to give long-overdue credit to “nasty women” from the earliest years of film history.
• The Independent Spirit Awards announced it will move toward gender-neutral acting categories.
• Netflix dropped the trailer for White Noise, Noah Baumbach’s upcoming interpretation of the Don DeLillo novel and the streamer’s first-ever Opening Night selection at the Venice Film Fest.
• And here’s the new trailer for Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, the latest from Ana Lily Amirpour, whose A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night plays the Wex Saturday night.
• Indie film distributor Roadside Attractions has joined peers like Neon and IFC by signing an exclusive streaming deal with Hulu.
• And finally, the sign artists of Trader Joe’s were given a moment in the limelight.