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Weekend Reading: August 5 Edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Aug 05, 2022

A Black performer, smiling and enveloped in satiny bronze fabric, reaches upward in a moment from the jaamil olawale kosoko performance "the hold"

Nile Harris in jaamil olawale kosoko's the hold, photo: Kathryn D Studios

Around Ohio

A view of empty galleries and adjacent ramp inside the deconstructivist-style Wexner Center for the Arts

A rare view of the Wex galleries between exhibitions

ICYMI, jaamil olawale kosoko’s performance of the hold, which livestreamed a few weeks ago, is back online through August 14.
A group of US architects including past Wex guest Kimberly Dowdell chose our Peter Eisenman-designed space as one of the country’s most influential buildings.
Sunday morning in the Short North, Emergent Art & Craft hosts a stained glass workshop.
Sunday afternoon, you can get your steps in during Olde Towne East Art Walk Sunday.
Or by perusing the local makers and merchants at Summer Flea at Seventh Son Brewing.
Or by taking advantage of a free Community Day at Franklin Park Conservatory.
Sunday night, RJD2 performs at Otherworld.
And the multi-talented Paisha Thomas is having a book release show at Natalie’s in Worthington.
All the congratulations to Ohio State professor and past Wex Film/Video Studio resident Vera Brunner-Sung for being part of the inaugural group of fellows in a new Sundance Institute program for AAPI artists.
Cincinnati’s Taft Museum of Art has named Rebekah “Becky” Beaulieu as its new president and CEO.
Next weekend, Franklinton Friday rolls around again in the evening with exhibition openings and Friendship Flea.
But first, Secret Studio hosts a casual and friendly Summer Art Salon Friday afternoon.

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A wide, tree-framed shot of the multi-story brick building that holds Appalshop, seen with high floodwaters obscuring the lower half of its first floor.

Kentucky media archive Appalshop after recent, devastating floods (image via Instagram), photo: Taylyn Kincer

The deadly flooding in Kentucky took a horrible toll on Appalshop, an essential media archive for the region. Here’s a report on the damage from Operations Director Roger May, and here’s info from Appalshop on how you can help those affected by the floods, including opportunities to help save materials from the archive.
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation announced a new round of grants totaling nearly $3 million.
Baltimore Museum of Art curator Katy Siegel is following the institution’s former head, Christopher Bedford, to SF MoMA.
Back at the BMA, a November date has been set for the opening of the first show of work donated to the institution by John Waters.
Ai Weiwei will be curating a show in London of art by incarcerated people.
Notre-Dame Cathedral set a reopening date.
A new lawsuit pits the distant relatives of visionary artist Henry Darger against his former landlords, who discovered and sold Darger’s work after his death.
For some feel-good art news, we direct you to the story of “Background Bob.”
South Korea’s new president, Yoon Suk-yeol, has ordered a new investment of $3.7 billion in the country’s arts and culture sector.
Maya Lin has been commissioned to create a public artwork for the Obama Presidential Center.
Dance lovers, check out these moves from the moon over a year of time-lapse photography.
The dance world now has its own portable immersive installation.
Architect and developer Bernard Marson, who worked behind the scenes to make New York’s Soho district a haven for artists, died at the age of 91.

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