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Weekend Reading: June 16 Edition

Erik Pepple, Director of Marketing Content

Jun 16, 2023

A cube in the center of a dimly lit gallery space casts video projections. There are tires placed on the floor to the right.

A.K. Burns: Of space we are..., installation view at the Wexner Center, photo: Stephen Takacs.

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A portrait of actor Jaime Farr as Major Klinger. Klinger wears a hat made of fruit and holds a rifle slung over their shoulder.

Photo: Rob Jones, Corporal Maxwell Klinger, part of a series of Ohio portraits for Columbus Metropolitan Library at 150; image courtesy of the artist.

Past Wexner Center Residency Artist Brian Harnetty's Shawnee, Revisited opens at Errant Sound June 20.
New work from artist Emily Cable-McKenna is at Wild Goose starting June 16.
Starlit Ways stop by the Streetlight Guild for a performance this Sunday.
Writer and upcoming Wex guest Scott Woods (catch him introducing Dario Argento's Phenomena in August) picks five favorite Columbus record stores.
The second annual Overflow Market arrives on Saturday.
The inaugural Gravity Mural Fest kicks off June 24.
As part of the Columbus Metropolitan Library's 150th celebrations, 24 Columbus-based artist share their work at a new exhibition in the Carnegie Gallery.
Columbus musician and artist Bobbi Kitten returns to the big screen in Maggie Moore(s), starring Jon Hamm and Tina Fey.

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A painting of Jeff Koons's ballon dog. The ballon dog is various shades of pink and purple and its feet are a groups of people on their knees.

A scene from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) featuring work by Jeff Koons at the Guggenheim Museum. Courtesy Sony Pictures.

Jeff Koons is in on the joke involving Across the Spider-Verse and its major action scene set at the Guggenheim, involving Koons's iconic Balloon Dogs.
ICYMI: A.K. Burns's Of space we are... (now at the Wex!) was reviewed in the latest issue of Artforum.
The United States plans to rejoin UNESCO.
A hospital in Portugal removes artwork about its ties to slavery.
The Met trains a group of 'Monuments Men' in saving Ukrainian cultural history.
Artist Takashi Murakami talks AI.
The first non-binary actors win Tony Awards (subscription required).
The River to River Festival presents a new form of audience interaction.
The controversial Hollywood Foreign Press Association shut down.
Cinétracts contributor Sky Hopinka wins major award.
Check out Nam June Paik's Global Groove on PBS.
With a little help from his AI friends, Paul McCartney announces the final Beatles song.
A trio of greats passed away this week. R.I.P. sonic aritst Helen Thorington, actor Treat Williams, and author Cormac McCarthy.

Weekend Reading: June 16 Edition

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