Weekend Reading: January 12 Edition

Around Ohio

• Cincinnati’s WKRC picked up the story of the Wex’s partnership with Wexner Medical Center on a program to research the benefits of arts exposure when treating chronic illness.
• Columbus Underground caught up with Wex Associate Curator Chris Stults and his January film series Tender Masculinity.
• CAPA is making a new music venue from a vintage downtown building.
• Here’s the latest on the contentious, confusing situation around the departure of CD 92.9 FM from local airwaves.
• The call for muralists is open for the 2024 Alley Islands event at Blockfort.
• The phenomenal April Sunami discussed her new show at McConnell Arts Center.
• In conjunction with that exhibition, the center hosts an artist panel next Friday on “The Role of the Community in Art Making.”
• Lynn Tramonte, Suma Setty, and Maryam Sy spoke to The Dispatch about their new book on immigrants who’ve been deported from Ohio.
• After days of sub-zero temps, come Thursday you might be up for a meditative sound bath.
• Also next weekend, the Billy Ireland has a reception Saturday for its latest, Depicting Mexico and Modernism: Gordo by Gus Arriola.
• Milo Arts has open studios Saturday.
• Saturday brings the opening of Transitions, AJ Vanderelli's first curated show since closing her Franklinton gallery, to Witchlab.
• Saturday night, 934 Gallery opens Don’t You Feel at Home, a three-artist show that explores the boundaries of physical and psychological space.
• And all next weekend, you can spend some time playing an artist-created mini golf course.

Around the Globe

• For the first time, Art21 has made its 2012 episode featuring photographer and Ohio native Catherine Opie available on YouTube. The Wex presented a show of Opie’s work in 2015.
• Art institutions including the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art are among the latest victims of cyberattacks.
• Indiana University canceled a planned survey of Palestinian artist Samia Halaby’s work.
• The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the oldest US art school and museum, is shuttering its degree program.
• Art world meme maker Cem A. spoke to Artnet.
• Ai Weiwei is among the artists trying to use AI for good. Others, not so much.
• A thief was discovered on the roof of an Arizona gallery last week, trying to take off with a quarter-million dollars’ worth of works by Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol, among others.
• Who wants to be the next director of London’s trouble-plagued the British Museum?
• Marina Abramović is treading into the territory of lifestyle gurus.
• Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer won big at the Golden Globes.
• And Max’s post-apocalyptic The Last of Us is so far leading the pack in Creative Arts Emmys.
• Ben Whishaw will play photographer Peter Hujar in an upcoming biopic by a favorite filmmaker of ours, Ira Sachs.
• Film critic David Ehrlich released the always-anticipated supercut of his favorite movies of the year.
• Ahead of the Oscars and its increasingly uncomfortable approach to commemorating the deceased, NPR suggested the ceremony take some tips from Turner Classic Movies.
• Willem Dafoe talked to The Washington Post about his character in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things and his new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• Choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker was called out as possibly the world’s most influential dancer. She came to Columbus in 2017 with A Love Supreme.
• Indie rock icon Elvis Costello has made a musical out of the Oscar-nominated Polish film Cold War.
• Navajo musician Delbert Anderson discussed his multi-year commemorative performance in the style of John Cage.
• Artist and composer Phill Niblock died at the age of 90.