Weekend Reading: February 2 Edition

Around Ohio

• WOSU’s Broad and High shared a beautiful piece about the current Wex project with design practice Outpost Office.
• Wex Executive Director Gaëtane Verna was among the curators to nominate artists for the inaugural Ruth Awards. The recipients of those awards have been announced, including Joe Minter and Rose B. Simpson.
• Columbus Underground covered our upcoming series of poetry films and readings organized by Scott Woods.
• Brian Harnetty premiered a new video for his composition The Workbench.
• Sunday. Ta-Nehisi Coates is giving a talk at Upper Arlington High School.
• Mark Lomax discussed the personal experiences that drove his new composition “Freedom’s Train.”
• Dre Peace shared the serious health challenge that’s been holding him back.
• The Columbus Dispatch rounded up can’t-miss art events for Black History Month.
• CD 92.9 FM left the radio airwaves Wednesday night, but its programming continues online.
• Gazala Projects is accepting submissions for the spring exhibition Signal Fires.
• Dream Clinic Project Space is also acceptation submissions for its own spring group show Heartland.
• Greater Columbus Arts Council announced the 26 artists in its 2024 Navigator program, including filmmaker Gabrielle Burton, musicians Krate Digga and Moxy Martinez, and writer Prince Shakur.
• The Columbus Symphony Orchestra announced plans for a new building on the Scioto Peninsula.
• Columbus Metropolitan Club presented an engaging panel discussion this week on public art and the archived livestream is now available to watch.
• Dance Magazine recounted a visit to Columbus in October for the International Association of Dance & Science Conference.
• Next weekend, Blockfort is hosting the three-day group exhibition Vessels in Blue, curated by Miriam King.
• There’s also Franklinton Fridays. Highlights include a chandelier installation by OBLSK at Wild Goose Creative.

Around the Globe

• The artist list for the 2024 Venice Biennale is out. Among the participants are several whose work has been presented recently at the Wex, including Carlos Motta and Želimir Žilnik.
• In the Summers, by first-time filmmaker Alessandra Lacorazza, took the top prize at this year’s Sundance.
• Meanwhile, at Slamdance, Giussepe Garau’s The Accident took the Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize. (Slamdance award winners are now available to stream, btw.)
• This Monday, you can stream a virtual event with Oscar-nominated actor Cillian Murphy.
• On the 60th anniversary of Dr. Strangelove, the BBC dove into the alleged real-life inspiration for its title character.
• Here’s a list of the best performances by the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his tragic death.
• Past Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Faye Driscoll is among those just recognized with an Obie Award.
• The latest episode of The Great Women Artists podcast offers a new interview with Barbara Kruger.
• The White House and the National Endowment for the Arts held a conference this week on how arts and culture can address a variety of domestic and world issues.
• Students at Stanford University are among the latest to be “prescribed” art experiences, in this case to deal with mental health issues.
• Laurie Anderson will not be teaching at Germany’s Folkwang University as planned.
• Food sustainability activists flung soup at the Mona Lisa.
• After a Wichita, Kansas statue of baseball legend Jackie Robinson was stolen and destroyed, an online fundraiser collected over $180,000 in five days to replace it.
• Caddell Kivet, who’s currently serving time in North Carolina, talked to NPR about the show he envisioned featuring incarcerated artists’ critiques of mass incarceration, and its debut at President Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, DC.
• Richard Prince has been ordered to pay more than $650,000 to compensate two photographers whose Instagram posts he appropriated for his own work.
• A new book from journalist Bianca Bosker shares her experience going undercover to explore New York’s contemporary art scene.
• Author Angie Kim shared how her new book attempts to subvert the perception that non-verbalism indicates a lack of intelligence.
• Writer Daniel Pink kicked off a new series for The Washington Post on boosting American imagination for what’s possible.
• Cree artist Kent Monkman turned narration of his memoir over to Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, his two-spirit alter ego.
• Theater legend Chita Rivera passed at 91.
• Artist Lisa Hunt passed at 55.
• Film scholar and writer David J. Skal died at the age of 71.
• Actor Carl Weathers passed away at the age of 76.
• MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer died at the age of 75.