Weekend reading: January 8 edition

Around Ohio

• In case you missed it, when the Wex’s winter exhibition opens, we'll offer free gallery admission every Sunday.
• Governor Mike DeWine accepted the resignation of Susan Block from the Ohio Arts Council board after she posted offensive, incendiary comments on social media following Wednesday’s siege on the Capitol.
• The new fiber show at 934 Gallery, featuring work by Dre McLeod and Cleveland-based Kathryn Shinko, is very much worth a look. 
• The Vanderelli Room opened its first gallery show since the appearance of COVID-19 in person and online. An American Sunrise includes artists such as Richard Duarte Brown, Dan Gerdeman, and Stephanie Rond and Olivia Barney (their collaborative installation is pictured at top of page).
• ReelAbilities Columbus is offering a three-day free stream of Code of the Freaks, a documentary about portrayals of the disabled in Hollywood history, starting Wednesday. There’s also an opportunity that evening to hear from filmmakers Salome Chasnoff and Susan Nussbaum.
• The Greater Columbus Arts Council has two opportunities coming up to join an online grant writing workshop for professional artists; the next is Monday at 2 PM.
• Mosaic Education Network founder Melissa Crum has started a new workshop program to help artists develop their business skills.
• And the Columbus Film Critics Association announced its picks for the best film achievements of 2020. (Disclosure: this author is a member of the group.)

Around the globe

• The Smithsonian wants to hear about your 2020.
• The institution is also already collecting artifacts from Wednesday’s insurrection in DC.
• Five photographers spoke to Artnet about what it was like to document the event.
• And curators are assessing damage to artworks in the Capitol, such as a marble bust of 12th president Zachary Taylor that appears to have been splashed with blood.
• The Washington Post’s Sebastian Smee suggests that this moment in American culture is reflected in an artwork made 75 years ago: Francis Bacon’s 1946 masterpiece Painting.
• A book about Bacon’s death is on this list of art-related tomes and films to look forward to in ’21.
• The work of Black comic artists is finally getting its due in a new book.
• Here’s a year-end wrap-up on the most important public artworks of 2020, according to ARTnews.
• Related, here’s a photo gallery of Beijing’s growing public art scene.
• And one more 2020 post-mortem: Indiewire’s annual critics poll. Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland tops the list.
• What has five years without David Bowie taught us?
• In other burning questions, the US has a warehouse full of Nazi art?
• Here’s a cool collection of teachers’ creative responses to the challenges of online learning.
• If you’re craving more Anne Bogart after this week’s episode of Always Subject to Change, here’s a stream of Falling & Loving, her collaboration with Elizabeth Streb that debuted this fall.
• Here are some predictions for the film industry in the coming year.
• Dance Magazine dropped its "25 to Watch" for 2021.
• Michael Apted, filmmaker behind the 7 Up series and Oscar winner Coal Miner’s Daughter, died at 79.
• Fashion icon Pierre Cardin passed away.
• And here’s wishing you a belated happy Public Domain Day. New works that are now copyright-free include Buster Keaton’s Go West and Bessie Smith’s “Tired of Voting Blues.”