Weekend Reading: July 14 Edition

Around Ohio

• Film/Video Studio residency artist and Columbus treasure Mary Jo Bole is featured in Columbus Monthly.
• The mag also highlighted the odd concentration of Montreal natives now leading central Ohio cultural institutions, including Wex Executive Director Gaëtane Verna.
• Congratulations go out to local critic and filmmaker Hope Madden. Her debut feature, the horror comedy Obstacle Corpse, is now available to stream.
• The Dispatch ran a nice story about how Columbus is connected to the new Pixar film Elemental.
• Urban Arts Space is introducing another new show this weekend: the Edmund Boateng solo exhibition Yaafoa, Home Is Calling, Finally Home. It’s on view through August 19.
• Matter covered To: The Other Side, the opioid epidemic-focused exhibition by Emily Strange and Allison McGovney at All People Arts.
• Asad Raza has been tapped to curate the 2025 edition of Cleveland’s Front International Triennial.
• Tuesday, Greater Columbus Arts Council hosts a Project Support Application Workshop.
• Looking further ahead, a celebration of homemade music and cassette culture happens next Saturday at Columbus Performing Arts Center.
• We’re sad to report that Andy Hudson, one of the founders of Glass Axis and a beloved figure on the local arts scene, died this past week. Here’s a story about Hudson and his work.

Around the Globe

• The Screen Actors Guild has joined WGA-AFTRA on strike, effectively paralyzing new film and TV production. Understandable, given accounts of studios trying to create AI images of background actors to use in perpetuity without compensation.
• And here’s an explanation for all the contention around actor fees and streaming.
• The Watermelon Woman creator Cheryl Dunye offered sage advice to less-experienced filmmakers.
• The PBS Short Film Festival is back for your streaming enjoyment.
• PBS is also currently streaming Jon-Sesrie Goff’s stellar doc After Sherman, which screened at Unorthodocs '22 with a visit from the filmmaker. It’s available through July 25.
• A new deluxe edition of the soundtrack to Jonathan Demme’s classic concert film Stop Making Sense is on the way.
• Alison O’Daniel, whose film Tuba Thieves was supported by our Film/Video Studio and will be shown at the Wex as part of our collaboration with ReelAbilities Film Fest, wrote an op-ed for Variety on the need to embrace open captions.
• Dance writer Wendy Perron rounded up some iconic short dances, including work by Trisha Brown, Martha Graham, and Yvonne Rainer.
• Educator Romi Crawford has worked with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago to created a new approach to fine art study that can defray the substantial expense of a four-year degree.
• The arrival of Threads has some individuals wary, but museums are having fun with the new Meta platform.
• Angelina Jolie will open an atelier in the New York building that housed the home and studio of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
• A new reprint of the original manuscript for In Cold Blood covers how Truman Capote never recovered from writing his hugely influential true crime saga.
• Unbearable Lightness of Being author Milan Kundera died at the age of 94.