Weekend reading: December 10 edition

Around Ohio

• Festivus is all weekend at 400 Square.
• Saturday, there’s a Tom Waits tribute night at Rambling House.
• And it’s a quick trip from there to The Randys’ annual holiday show at Dick’s Den.
• A gift for the holidays: Moviola released the video version of its recent expanded record release event at Mershon Auditorium.
• Ronnie Agnew will be the new general manager of WOSU Public Media.
• Greater Columbus Arts Council has named local treasure Richard Duarte Brown the recipient of the 2022 Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Fellowship. 
• Jade Kuriko Olivo, who works under the name Puppies Puppies, won a major biennial award from MoCA Cleveland.
• Exciting news for the North Side: Franklin County will purchase the Northland Performing Arts Center and lease it to the Harmony Project, which presented its first live performance in two years this week.
• And next Saturday, gather the family around a screen for One Light, a virtual, multicultural holiday show from the Near East Side’s Oyo Dance Company.

Around the globe

• The Guardian continues its series to provide aid and comfort through art with recommendations for what to look at and listen to when you’re feeling lonely, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Fear Eats the Soul.
• Artnet shared a first-person perspective on the importance mentoring in the art world, plus an opportunity to sign up to benefit from either side of the relationship.
• IndieWire rolled out its list of the year’s best undistributed films, with 2021 Unorthodocs selection Users by filmmaker Natalia Almada making the cut.
• The Writers Guild of America shared its picks for the greatest scripts of the 21st Century, with works by Paul Thomas Anderson, the Coen brothers, Barry Jenkins, and Jordan Peele in the top 10.
• Steve McQueen’s latest film is a two-minute, deeply personal PSA. Here’s where you can watch it.
• Here’s the story behind Robert Fraser, the art dealer who pops up in Peter Jackson’s Get Back.
• Paul Auster, Zadie Smith, Meryl Streep, and about 300 other arts professionals signed a letter demanding that the Cuban government stop persecuting artists.
• Aziz Hansara is this year’s winner of the Future Generation Art Prize. Another recent winner, Carlos Motta, is working on a project supported by the Wex that’ll debut here next fall.
• New York’s Department of Cultural Affairs has granted a total of over $50 million to more than 1000 nonprofit arts organizations, from small theater companies to the Guggenheim Museum. 
• Former Obama administration staffer Kimberly Panicek Trueblood has been named the new president and COO of the Brooklyn Museum.
• Following a push by museums to share more online due to COVID, Forbes considered what might be next for art institutions in the digital realm.
• Banksy has pledged over $13 million to turn the prison that once held Oscar Wilde into an arts center.
• A community living project for artists in east London offers a new model for how to build affordable housing.
• Architect David Adjaye will design a Heritage District for newly independent Barbados.
• Ever heard about the time that fans of jazz god John Coltrane formed a church in his name?
• Composer Florence Price, who died in 1953, was long overlooked despite being the first Black woman to have her music played by a major US orchestra, but a group of middle schoolers at a music academy have shone a light on her history.
• The purple-y hue Very Peri has been named Pantone’s 2022 color of the year.
• Maverick filmmaker Lina Wertmuller died at the age of 93.
• And incredible writer, culture critic, and Dayton native Greg Tate passed away at the age of 64. Hanif Abdurraqib offered a tribute on his SixtyEight2OhFive blog.