Weekend Reading: December 16 Edition

Around Ohio

• Kudos to Wex Associate Curator of Exhibitions Daniel Marcus; his essay on works by Nicole Eisenman has been included in the catalogue Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths.
• The Harmony Project had a big premiere on the small screen this week.
• Columbus Dispatch writer Peter Tonguette penned a moving tribute to Julia Reichert.
• Saturday night, Brothers Drake Meadery hosts a reception for its current 83 Gallery show and a book signing with Booze Boos proprietor Bucky Cutright.
• Our new tees designed by interns Lilyana Bryan and Marcy Paredes, featuring Wex mascot Griddy, made the Columbus Underground Gift Guide.
• Calling all Gil Mantera’s Party Dream fans: a new documentary about the performance duo is now available to stream.
• Meagan Alwood-Karčić spoke to Matter News about her solo show at St. James Tavern.
• And here’s a look at the intricate works of local Bennett Prize finalist Kyla Zoe Rafert.
• Local artist Daric Gill debuted an interactive sound sculpture at COSI.
• Evolution Theatre Company announced its upcoming season.
• The Cincinnati Museum of Art discovered a rare Paul Cézanne self-portrait under another painting.
• Traveling west for the holidays? Consider a stop at Gazala Projects.
• And for your post-holiday planning, Rumba Cafe hosts a benefit for musician and guitar master Arturo De Leon on Thursday, December 29.
• Also, The Amazing Cat Show will begin accepting submissions December 27.

Around the globe

• The National Film Registry will induct 25 films ranging from Brian De Palma’s Carrie and John Waters’ Hairspray to Julia Reichert and Jim Klein’s Union Maids.
• All the congrats to Wex friend and past Artist Residency Award recipient Jennifer Reeder: her new film Perpetrator will debut at the Berlin Film Fest and the work has already been picked up by Shudder.
• Selections from the Wex’s Cinetracts ’20 project by Cameron Granger and Christopher Harris screened at the Maysles Center Friday; Harris will be back at the Wex in October for Unorthodocs, and you can still watch the entire Cinetracts program here.
• The Golden Globe nominations were announced, with The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once coming out on top.
• Early animation pioneer Bessie Mae Kelley is getting some long-overdue attention.
• Steven Spielberg spoke to Martin Scorsese about casting David Lynch for a scene-stealing turn as John Ford in his latest, The Fabelmans.
• The Black List of the best unproduced screenplays was released for 2022.
• The New York Times’ Gia Kourlas fixed her critical eye on the viral Wednesday dance.
• And fellow dance writer Wendy Perron polled colleagues on the notable dance books of the year.
• Ticket Bank, a new initiative in London, will make unsold performance tickets available for free to those who can’t afford them.
• Following news last week that Artforum has been acquired by Penske Media, the magazine announced that it’s shuttering sister publication Bookforum.
• The latest edition of the Burns Halperin Report shows that museums are taking the slow road to diversifying their collections. The authors spoke about the findings on the Art Angle podcast.
• ARTnews continued its year-end coverage with the defining artworks of 2022, including works by Ernie Barnes, Simone Leigh, and Xaviera Simmons.
• Art world innovators shared their picks for artists to watch; Climate Changing contributor Jacolby Satterwhite made the cut.
• Over 200 Philip Guston works were donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Adriano Pedrosa will be the first Latin American to curate the Venice Biennale.
• Here’s the latest on the increasingly tense standoff between artists and AI.
• Veteran museum guard Dereck Stafford Mangus has a request: spend less time on selfies and more time looking at the art.
• Jeremy Grier is one of the artists on this shortlist of photographers to follow on Instagram.
• Here’s a look at the year in arts and culture through some remarkable photos.
• And an overview of the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Award winners.
• Dancer tWitch died tragically at the age of 40.
• And singular composer Angelo Badalamenti passed away at the age of 85. Here’s a YouTube playlist to commemorate his passing and another option to listen to Badalamenti works on Spotify.

Note: Weekend Reading will take a week off for the holidays, but it’ll be back the following weekend with a roundup of notable stories from the past year.