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Weekend Reading: December 9 Edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Dec 09, 2022

Broad and High, "What's in a Name?", courtesy of WOSU-TV.

Around Ohio

A stack of "Art Activism Action" books. The cover shows a colorful painting of a fist raised in the air on a background of unpainted plywood.

Art Activism Action, image courtesy of Greater Columbus Arts Council

WOSU-TV’s Broad and High produced a beautiful piece about Carlos Motta’s The ~~Columbus~~ Assembly. (see above)
Local drag artist Ava Aurora Foxx spoke out about the drag storytime event that was canceled last weekend due to threats from the Proud Boys.
Sunday brings the Columbus Winter Avant-Garde Art & Craft Show to the Makoy Center.
There’s also Sohud Collective’s Holiday Wonderland Market happening Sunday.
And Wex in-house DJ Trueskills will be spinning for a Jazz Brunch Sunday at Strongwater.
The Greater Columbus Arts Council announced its latest project support grants, bestowing funds to organizations including Columbus Black Theater Festival and Water Dances Columbus, which will be copresented by the Wex.
GCAC also released a new book about the Art Unites Cbus project. It’s available at the Wex Store.
Dana Lynn Harper spoke to Matter News about her Vanderelli Room show. (She's also currently working on a collaborative project between the Wex and Wexner Medical Center; more soon.)
934 Gallery announced its upcoming exhibition season; artists include Marcus P. Blackwell, Douglas Fordyce, Dane Khy, and Jen Wrubleski.
Columbus Monthly has a new feature with local treasure Alexis Nikole Nelson, aka the Black Forager.
Columbus artist Elena Asofsky caught the internet’s attention with fan art for a fake Martin Scorsese movie.
Double Happiness is running a GoFundMe following a robbery that’s left the club without sound equipment.
Cleveland city officials announced the impending gutting of the vacant ArtCraft building, which has held artist studios for decades, to make way for a new police department. Just one problem: the building isn’t vacant.
After sharing how only two people showed up for her first in-person book signing, Ohio author Chelsea Banning learned that writers from Margaret Atwood to Stephen King could relate.
Streetlight Guild shared a video chronicling a day in the life of the great Richard Duarte Brown.
Looking ahead, Streetlight Guild will be hosting a holiday art market next Saturday.
FiggyFest returns with punk rock holiday fun Saturday night, to benefit the Mid-Ohio Food Collective.
And 400 West Rich will be filled with Festivus Saturday and Sunday.

Around the globe

A graphic with a textured background in Viva Magenta, Pantone's color of the year. The color's title and corresponding number are laid over the background in sans-serif white text

Viva Magenta, image courtesy of Pantone

Pantone announced that Viva Magenta is the official color of the year.
The Supreme Court case involving an Andy Warhol Prince portrait and the targeting of artworks by climate activists are among ARTnews’ Important Art Events of 2022.
The New York Times’ list of the year’s best dance includes a familiar work: Abby Z and the New Utility’s Radioactive Practice.
The paper also called out the year’s best exhibitions, including Cecilia Vicuña’s show at the Guggenheim.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago has officially revoked Ye’s honorary degree.
Artforum was acquired by Penske Media, which already owns major art publications ARTnews and Art in America.
The Sundance Film Festival announced its 2023 lineup, which includes films by Alison O’Daniel and Deborah Stratton that were produced with support from the Wex Film/Video Studio. Here’s a preview of some other hot selections.
Brainwashed, the new doc created by filmmaker Nina Menkes that grew from the cinematic talk she presented at the Wex in 2020, is now available to stream.
Through January 4, Films From Iran For Iran allows you to stream films for free by Iranian women and non-binary artists, made over the past four decades.
Nan Goldin spoke to The Guardian about the critically acclaimed new doc All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.
Speaking of All the Beauty, Laura Poitras' documentary showed up on both Best Of 2022 lists from the film critics at the New York Times.
Writer-director Mike White talked with Terry Gross about his fascinating HBO series The White Lotus.
New York Times critic Salamishah Tillet shared her favorite ways to escape reality over the past year.
Harper's Bazaar cast a spotlight on the beauty of Black punks.
91 year-old theater artist Adrienne Kennedy finally made it to Broadway this week with her 1991 play Ohio State Murders.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has pledged to reopen the country’s Ministry of Culture, which was shuttered by former President Jair Bolsonaro.
Sculptor Veronica Ryan won the 2022 Turner Prize.
The Los Angeles Times ran a new interview with William Kentridge.
Here’s a think piece prompted by Spotify’s popular, year-end “Spotify Wrapped” feature.
“Goblin mode” is the word of the year, according to the Oxford Dictionary.
And this week, Iranian artist and activist Mohsen Shekari was executed for participating in the country’s mass demonstrations.