Weekend Reading: December 15 Edition

Around Ohio

• Sunday, Dana Lynn Harper is having a “paint your own Cloud Buddy” gathering at The Vanderelli Room.
• Also Sunday, Streetlight Guild is hosting its Digressions Book Club.
• Wild Goose Creative has put out a call for entries for its February show Tiny - It’s Gonna Be Huge.
• Columbus Underground wrote up the Riffe Gallery’s Biennial Juried Exhibition.
• Creative hyphenate Aloe Vera discussed how they spun musical gold from a devastating experience with a busted pipe.
• Hyperallergic dove into the recent history of the headless bronze statue now at the center of a legal battle between the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
• Athens-based artist Alyssa Keil offered a view into her studio.
• Thursday, Witchlab is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a winter solstice ritual.

Around the Globe

• Golden Globes nominations were announced, with Barbie and Oppenheimer leading the nods on the film side.
• The Independent Spirit Award nominations favored the satire American Fiction and Todd Haynes’s May December.
• Screen Slate released its poll of first viewings and discoveries by artists and writers including Isabelle Huppert, Paul Schrader, Frederick Wiseman, and Ruun Nuur, a Wex Ohio Humanities Film Fellow who included a couple of 2023 Cinema Revival screenings on her list.
• This year’s additions to the National Film Registry range from Home Alone to Desperately Seeking Susan, to Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision.
• The great Agnés Varda got her own Google Doodle.
• Slate covered the work of the Mel Chin-led artist collective GALA Committee, which slipped subversive messaging into the set of the 1990s nighttime soap Melrose Place.
• ARTnews released its list of the year’s defining art events.
• Recipients of 2023 grants from Anonymous Was a Woman include recent Wex guest Steffi Jemison and past Artist Residency Award recipients Stanya Kahn and Cauleen Smith.
• As curator Rahiem Shaded reports, artists are fighting to keep working despite being targeted in the war currently raging in Sudan.
• Art Basel got into fashion policing.
• A new study confirms that government funding for the arts and entertainment sectors skyrocketed during the pandemic.
• Submissions are being accepted through January 19 from equity-focused nonprofit organizations for the ArtsHERE grant program.
• The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s upcoming season includes a collaboration between past Wex guest Taylor Mac and past Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Faye Driscoll.
• The Louvre will be raising its admission price by 30 percent next month.
• The New York Times had a conversation with an AI Vincent van Gogh.
• Nan Goldin spoke about her recent decision to boycott The Times.
• Artist Isabelle Brourman discussed her project working alongside the court illustrators at the fraud trial of former president Trump.
• David Shrigley revealed what he’d save if his house caught fire.
• Two scholars took on the burning question of what’s up with those hilarious Medieval portrayals of animals.
• The Guardian caught up with Sleater-Kinney.
• In the UK, the Reverie Project is creating VR dance parties for dementia patients.
• Nancy Brooks Brody, a founding member of the collective fierce pussy, died at the age of 61.
• Author and film historian Cari Beauchamp passed away at 74.
• Novelist Michael Bishop died at 78.
• And beloved stage and screen actor Andre Braugher died at the age of 61.