Weekend Reading: December 2 Edition

Around Ohio

• We’re so sorry to share the news that filmmaker and Wex friend Julia Reichert passed away this week. Here’s a tribute from Film/Video Director Dave Filipi.
• Ohio State will soon host the archives of Anne Bogart’s SITI Company.
• Voyage Ohio featured an interview with our meditation partner, Deja Cierston of replenish: the spa-co-op.
• Glass Axis is moving out of Franklinton.
• Opportunities to shop from local artists this weekend include a Holiday Pop-Up Market at Blockfort Saturday.
• The CCAD Art Fair is also Saturday.
• Zen Genius hosts a holiday market Saturday for Gallery Hop.
• Ohio Art League’s annual Thumb Box Exhibition opens Saturday.
• Shopping and fundraising combine Sunday in Clintonville for HolidayVille 2022.
• Sunday also brings Not Your Mama’s Craft Market, part of German Village Lights.
• Sunday night,  The Hip Hop Nutcracker is happening at the Palace Theatre.
• Looking ahead, next Friday brings the opening of Duet: Works by Meagan Alwood Karčić to St. James Tavern.
• And Franklinton Friday events next weekend include an opening of A Little Too Much by Dana Lynn Harper at The Vanderelli Room and new works by the wildly prolific Rob Jones at Secret Studio.

Around the globe

• Sight & Sound released its much anticipated once-a-decade poll of the greatest films of all time. The largest pool of respondents to date (including local arts writer Peter Tonguette) yielded a surprise number one: Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. Not everyone is happy about the results.
• This week also brought us the much-loved Top 10 films list that John Waters produces annually for Artforum.
• And here’s a roundup of the year’s best movie posters.
• Till filmmaker and past Wex Film/Video Studio resident Chinonye Chukwu joined Tony Kushner, Daniel Kwan, Jordan Peele, and others for a Hollywood Reporter Writers Roundtable.
• ICYMI, Danielle Henderson and Millie de Chirico mentioned their 2021 Wex visit in the recent episode of I Saw What You Did covering the films 9 to 5 and Johnny Guitar.
• Paul Thomas Anderson is prepping to shoot his next film.
• ArtReview’s latest Power 100 List is also out, with Nan Goldin, Simone Leigh, and Fred Moten making the top 10.
• Here’s an overview of Art Basel Miami Beach, which kicked off this week.
• A Gustav Klimt expert chimed in on an immersive exhibition of the artist’s work.
• Dolly Parton wants to open a museum in Nashville.
• Jerry Saltz discussed what it takes to be an art critic today.
• Recipients of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grants for 2022 include past Wex guest Terri Francis for her work on past Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Kevin Jerome Everson.
• The New York Times released its list of the year’s best books, including the latest from Namwali Serpell.
• Architectural Digest caught up with decolonizing architect Sam Olbekson.
• The groundbreaking comic Love and Rockets is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
• The great Natasha Lyonne and Abbi Jacobson discussed their shared desire to torch traditional rules around TV comedy.
• Poet Bernadette Mayer passed this week at 77.
• Underground comic artist Aline Kominsky Crumb passed away this week at the age of 74.
• And Fleetwood Mac member Christine McVie died at the age of 79.