Weekend Reading: June 7 Edition

Around Columbus

• Columbus Underground spoke with our own Head of Film/Video Dave Filipi about this month’s Tómas Gutiérrez Alea retrospective.
• For its remote show from the Columbus Arts Fest, WOSU-FM’s All Sides with Anna Staver brought in a panel of local artists for a look at the impact of AI on the art world.
• Sunday, writers Carvell Wallace and Hanif Abdurraqib will be in conversation at The Book Loft.
• The German Village Society has two upcoming opportunities for artists to share their work.
• Golomb put out a video for its upcoming EP Love, codirected by wildly talented former Wex intern and Ohio Shorts alum Grace Lillash.
• Vinyl producer Gotta Groove Records discussed its work with local artists.
• Artist and animator Hakim Callwood is one step closer to all-out Renaissance Man status.
• A new exhibition at the National Veterans Memorial and Museum highlights the use of a “ghost army” in WWII to fool the Nazis.
• Hassan Qureshi discussed his work expanding the use and visibility of Arabic calligraphy with Matter.
• Thursday, Upper Arlington’s Mallway Park will host the vendor event Arts on Arlington.
• Also Thursday, Streetlight Guild offers a screening of the film made from 2023’s Alsatian Queen! concert.
• Jumping ahead to next weekend, Friday brings the Shimmy and Shake for Survivors burlesque showcase to Lincoln Theatre, featuring performers who’ve made it to the other side of breast cancer.
• Franklinton Fridays for June will incorporate a block party for 614 Day.
• Next weekend’s art attractions also include the Worthington Arts Festival.
• Saturday, Hayley Gallery has a reception for its solo show of work by Man-Wai Wu.
• And of course, next weekend brings the fabulously massive Stonewall Columbus Pride Festival and Pride March to the Short North and Downtown.

Around the Globe

• Cécile McLorin Salvant, who’ll perform at the Wex October 3, got a mash note from Variety for her recent concert with Silvana Estrada at L.A.’s Disney Hall.
• Composer Huang Ruo has written a symphony for cell phones.
• Choreographer Lincoln Jones has taken on the daunting task of adding a fourth act to George Balanchine’s Jewels.
• The current culture wars prompted this look back at the New Deal’s Federal Theatre Project.
• Dear White People filmmaker Justin Simien laid out the connections between ministrely, the early days of Hollywood animation, and the current concerns about AI and artist theft.
• The good people at StoryCorps resurfaced an animated short from its archive for Pride Month and really, we’re not crying.
• The Canadian Screen Awards provided an opportunity for a discussion about the challenges of films made in the county have being seen.
• ICYMI, Audition filmmaker Takashi Miike has returned to the horror genre with his latest, Lumberjack the Monster, which quietly dropped on Netflix last weekend.
• ITVS, one of the companies behind great programs such as PBS’ Independent Lens, is expanding its support for documentary filmmaking.
• The latest from documentarian and past Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Penny Lane will start hitting theaters later this month. The new film, Confessions of a Good Samaritan, explores the ethics and emotions of organ donation.
• Film Critic Fred Onyango wrote about the challenges of the job in the current media climate.
• Robert DeNiro got a slap on the wrist from the National Association of Broadcasters.
• The New York Times went behind the scenes at the Tribeca Film Festival.
• The Guardian did the same with the Tate Modern.
• El Museo del Barrio released the artist list for its 2024 triennial, which includes creators such as Karyn Oliver and Studio Lenca.
• Artnet offered its guide to five must-see shows at Art Basel.
• Here’s a report on the DIY vibe found at Detroit’s queer art biennial, Mighty Real/Queer Detroit.
• After more than three decades in prison, trans painter Jaime Diaz is celebrating her freedom.
• Hirshorn Museum Director Melissa Chiu discussed how her museum has increased attendance through “radical accessibility.”
• More than 20 former staffers are suing Philadelphia’s University of the Arts for the abrupt handling of its closure.
• Claude Monet’s Poppies at Argenteuil is the latest painting to be targeted by climate activists.
• Anti-war activists made their presence known this week at the Brooklyn Museum.
• A new study examined the relationship between conservative values and creativity.
• Another study considered the connection between negative information about an artist and how their work is perceived.
• Tokyo is getting its own version of New York’s High Line.
• New York’s Fotografiska has opened the first museum retrospective of street photographer Vivian Maier.
• After irking living photographers with its recent Photoshop campaign, Adobe is now drawing fire from the estate of Ansel Adams for selling AI-generated art using the photographer’s name.
• Simone Subal Gallery, which reps for artists including Baseera Khan, will close later this month.
• Mashable offered a primer on Cara, the new social platform that has artists leaving Instagram.
• A new book highlights billboard art created by the likes of Shepard Fairey, Jenny Holzer, and Carrie Mae Weems.
• As we dive into summer reading season, NPR asked the question, what’s better for the environment: paper or e-books?
• The Washington Post’s Sebastian Smee wrote about a new, posthumous book by his former colleague, legendary art critic Peter Schjeldahl.
• High school senior Annabelle Jenkins made a statement about censorship in her home state of Idaho when she tried to pass a copy of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale to the local school superintendent during her graduation ceremony.
• All Fours, the new book by Miranda July, has women readers buzzing about finding freedom and room for self-exploration in a long-term marriage. (It’s available at the Wex Store, btw.)
• Quartz chronicled the history of the zine, going all the way back to Martin Luther.
• Canadian writer Sam Forster is taking all kinds of heat for traveling the US in blackface to research his new book.
• Actor, dancer, and one-time Fred Astaire partner Janis Paige passed at 101.
• Self-taught artist and Fluxus cofounder Ben Vautier took his own life at the age of 88.