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Weekend Reading: August 30 Edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Aug 30, 2024

An animated image of a young woman sitting on a grassy area surrounded by brightly colored flowers.

Top of page: Green Days, screening September 26 with filmmaker Ahn Jae-huun in attendance, courtesy of Meditation with a pencil

Around Ohio

A man stands in the distance in a grassy field while in the foreground, a guitar neck sticks out of the ground.

Wolves Against the World, the second film in the Ohio-made Fresh Hell trilogy, courtesy of Good Deed Entertainment

Here’s an intro to Ohio State and Wex visiting artist Ahn Jae-huun. He’ll be joining us for two events in a series this month featuring Ahn’s animated films, presented in partnership with Cartoon Crossroads Columbus.
Local filmmaker Essie Baird released the first segment of her miniseries Red, featuring an appearance by Wex Visitor Experience Coordinator Francesca Mouery.
This week also brought the release of the first feature in the Ohio-produced horror trilogy Fresh Hell.
The Yellow Springs Film Festival announced its lineup, which includes appearances by Jim Jarmusch and Reggie Watts.
It’s Local Author Festival weekend at Bexley Public Library.
The Somali Museum of Ohio opens this weekend, centering the history and culture of the country that plays a prominent role in Columbus’ immigrant population.
Saturday, Secret Studio is combining a closing reception for artist Melissa Zexter with a listening party for the latest from Lydia Loveless.
Glen Echo Ravine is having a Bird Tunnel Party Sunday.
Also Sunday, Ohio Wesleyan’s Ross Art Museum has a curator talk for Ohio Art League’s 2024 Juried Art Exhibition.
And Sunday kicks off Rhapsody & Refrain 2024: 30 Columbus Poets at Streetlight Guild. First up is Kimberly Brazwell and Sidney Jones Jr.
For the holiday, you can stop by the Upper Arlington Labor Day Arts Festival, where Wex staff (including this writer) will be on hand with info, calendars, and swag.
There’s also a Labor Day Parking Lot Record Swap at Lost Weekend Records.
Artist Luka Weinberger was finally able to finish a mural over a year in the making.
Writer Prince Shakur spoke about James Baldwin’s lasting impact.
Wednesday, Brandt-Roberts Galleries is having an artists reception for its latest, Collective Mending.
Thursday, Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery hosts a reception for the group show Hear My Voice.
Also Thursday, CCAD launches its show in partnership with FotoFocus Biennial: I Was Here, curated by April Sunami and Marcus Morris. The Wex’s fall exhibitions are presented as part of FotoFocus, as well.
For next weekend, there’s a show opening Friday featuring work by Sue King at Ohio State’s Faculty Club.
There’s also Scrawl in Franklinton Saturday and Sunday.
And High Street in the Short North will be shut down Saturday for the street fair Hops on High, which also features Gallery Hop events like an opening for Richard Ferguson’s solo show at Marcia Evans Gallery.

Around the Globe

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Bill Morrison’s Incident, courtesy of Hypnotic Pictures

The New Yorker is streaming Incident, a new short about a 2018 police shooting by documentarian and past Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Bill Morrison.
Another past Film/Video Artist Residency Award recipient, Penny Lane, recounted her experience donating a kidney to a stranger.
The Venice Film Festival is underway and here’s a take on the hot titles.
Venice selection Homegrown was spotlighted for its work delving into the lives of three participants in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
It looks like filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl wasn’t entirely forthcoming about her Nazi past.
Cooper Hoffman and Olivia Wilde have been tapped for the new film by Gregg Araki.
Fresh Air gave the week to interviews with cinema luminaries including Robert Duvall and Isabella Rossellini.
Milk & Serial, an $800 found footage horror film, is going viral on YouTube.
Why aren’t movie trailers more fun?
Apropos of our impending presentation of Brother(hood) Dance: Black on Earth, here’s a piece about how many Black farmers there actually may be in the US.
And here’s something on UTTER, the 2023 video work by Shu Lea Chang, who’ll be coming to the Wex September 16 with a restored version of her 1994 feature Fresh Kill.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences did not heed the call of an open letter to rescind an Emmy nomination for Palestinian journalist and Instagram influencer Bisan Owda.
Alex Edelman wrote about the death of his creative partner right before the Broadway opening of Just for Us, which is currently up for an Emmy for its Max treatment.
The Conversation rounded up the dominant themes of this year’s Edinburgh festivals.
Ohio State emeritus professor Bebe Miller is featured in a new set of dance history writings.
A new set of recordings of singer-activist Paul Robeson is out, including some that have never been previously released.
ARTnews uncovered a link between Ohio Senator and Vice Presidential Candidate J.D. Vance and the New York art world.
Russian artist Alexandra Skochilenko recounted how joy got her through her prison stay prior to being released in the recent US prisoner exchange.
Attacks on cultural sites in Ukraine have brought on a “Ukrainian cultural boom.”
Can art historians help combat the rise of convincing but fake AI images?
In other tech news, Be My AI and ChatGPT-4 are creating new ways for the blind to interact with art.
Guardian columnist Katy Hessel decided it’s an appropriate time to look back on the work of Sister Mary Corita.
The Teiger Foundation announced its 2024 grantees.
Victoria Siddall will be the first woman to helm London’s National Portrait Gallery.
A toddler had a bad encounter with an ancient jar at an Israeli museum.
The standard balloon drop at the end of the Democratic National Convention was also a highly organized tribute to balloon artist Tommy DeLorenzo.
Things are not going well for Ron DeSantis’ war against “woke” colleges.
Parisian designer Louis-Gabriel Nouchi talked about creating 700 distinctive garments for opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Jazz guitarist and bandleader Russell Malone passed away while on tour in Japan. He was 60.
Ofra Bikel, a documentary filmmaker best known for her work on the criminal justice system for PBS’ Frontline, died at the age of 94.