Weekend reading: December 4 edition

Around Columbus

• Here’s the latest on the state of the arts industry in Ohio as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s not good.
• It’s Gallery Hop weekend, with attractions including a hybrid show of paintings by John A. Sargent III at Sean Christopher Gallery.
• The Craftin’ Outlaws Virtual Holiday Market is this weekend.
• So is the CCAD Art Fair.
• Wednesday afternoon, CCAD is offering a free online class on writing a great artist statement.
• Our fall exhibition Taryn Simon: Assembled Audience popped up in Columbus Monthly.
• And our Zoom Family Film Festival made the Columbus Dispatch.
• Writer-director Chris Bournea’s documentary Lady Wrestler: The Amazing Untold Story of African-American Women in the Ring, which premiered locally at the Wex (and is pictured at top of page), is now available to rent.
• Artnet has a write-up on the Columbus Museum of Art’s Aminah Robinson exhibition, which we’ll all surely get to see next year.
• AMC Theaters has given up on its Lennox 24 location; cinema management company Phoenix Theatres will be taking over.
• 934 Gallery is celebrating its fifth anniversary.
• Renowned Columbus clay artist Dorothy Gill Barnes passed away last week at the age of 93.
• There’s a brand new local tribute album to New Bomb Turks. All proceeds will be donated to charity.
• In other music news, Columbus musician and internet DJ Tutti Jackson has released her latest annual holiday mix.
  
   

Around the globe

• Congratulations to Wex film and food collaborator and Cinetracts ’20 contributor Cameron Granger for getting a spot on Forbes’s “30 Under 30” list.
• More kudos go out to Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Faye Driscoll for winning the New York Live Arts Residency.
• Black Lives Matter is at the top of Art Review’s annual Power 100 list.
• ARTnews has a list of the defining art events of 2020.
• John Waters’s top 10 film list for the year is out in the new Artforum.
• Also in the December issue, 23 artists including New Red Order and Jibade Khalil-Huffman select meaningful events and exhibitions from 2020.
• The Slamdance Film Festival announced its lineup for the 2021 edition in February—and it’s offering free passes to its virtual component through December 31.
• Film at Lincoln Center is having a virtual Wong Kar-Wai retrospective, with features including the director's cut of his 2013 film The Grandmaster.
• Access to Chris Marker’s 1997 CD-ROM work Immemory is facing an access challenge: the impending obsolescence of Flash.
• Planning to watch David Fincher’s Mank on Netflix? A rundown on relevant Hollywood history might help.
• Actor Elliot Page came out as trans.
• Alex Winter, filmmaker and one half of Bill & Ted, discussed his new Frank Zappa documentary.
• Warner Bros. now has plans to release its entire 2021 film slate via HBO Max. Reactions have been intense.
• Sunday morning, the Frost Art Museum is hosting a virtual “Breakfast in the Park” lecture with MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Jeffrey Gibson.
• On Thursday, Nick Cave and Xaviera Simmons will join a virtual panel discussion around Black trauma, hosted by Mass MoCA.
• Next Friday night brings the beginning of an online screening series of Andy Warhol’s film and TV work from the Warhol Museum.
• The Smithsonian Archives of American Art has recorded an oral history of 2020 with artists such as Mark Bradford and Sheila Hicks. Here’s a video of Bradford’s interview.
• Kimberly Drew and New York Times writer Jenna Wortham talked about their new book, Black Futures.
• Here’s an excerpt from a new book by Roni Horn.
• An ancient, eight-mile work of rock art was discovered in the Amazon.
• Here are the finalists in the competition to design new plinths for New York City’s High Line.
• Work such as the new piece by Heidi Latsky Dance is bringing greater visibility to disability in dance.
• This is an intriguing proposal: a cabinet-level position for the arts and culture sector.
• Check out a conversation on the link between memes and Dadaist collage.
• There’s movement on efforts to establish national museums of Latino and women’s history.
• Over 2300 people signed up to throw eggs at a new sculpture of Margaret Thatcher.
• Here’s the latest on the disappearing, reappearing 2001-like monolith.
• Here’s a theory on what It’s a Wonderful Life, the Pogues track “Fairytale of New York” and other Christmas standards have in common.
• And with Hanukkah beginning on Thursday, let’s all get into the holiday spirit with a new video from actor-musician Daveed Diggs: “Puppy for Hanukkah.”