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Weekend reading: May 27 edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

May 27, 2022

Two patrons look at a work by Jacqueline Humphries in the Wexner Center for the Arts galleries

Patrons in the Wex galleries during the September 2021 opening of Jacqueline Humphries: jhΩ1:), photo: Kathryn D Studios

Around Columbus

Sylvie Mix in Poser, image courtesy of Oscilloscope

ICYMI, we announced this week that gallery admission will be free for all, starting with the June 10 opening of Portal For(e) the Ephemeral Passage.
We’re very sad to say that Gannett has ceased operations at Columbus Alive as of today. Just this week, the outlet released an extensive feature on the new show at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, coverage of the locally made and nationally acclaimed film Poser, and an update on the ambitious Birdsong Project.
In better local media news, kudos to Columbus Monthly for winning a National Magazine Award for Special Issue for its May 2021 edition guest-edited by Wil Haygood.
Artists, you have until Tuesday to submit proposals to the Short North Alliance for the next iteration of its Summer Spray outdoor art program.
And next Friday is the last day to submit work for the much-anticipated return of erotic art exhibition Gabinetto Segreto.
Actors’ Theatre has its run of Hamlet, 1603 kicking off in Schiller Park this weekend.
It’s also the last weekend for Blooms & Butterflies at Franklin Park Conservatory.
Thursday, Streetlight Guild has a pop-up exhibit for David Michael Butler.
Looking ahead to next weekend, on on Saturday Oyo Dance Company will restage its social justice work Parallel in Franklin Park.

Around the globe

Still from Joyland, winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival

The Washington Post’s Philip Kennicott wrote that we need a national memorial to gun violence now.
The awards ceremony for the Cannes Film Festival takes place Saturday, but the prizewinners from the Un Certain Regard section have already been announced.
Monday afternoon, you can log onto an online lecture The Women Who Built Hollywood.
Here’s an interview feature from Art in America’s New Talent issue featuring another past Wex guest: filmmaker Sky Hopinka.
A new study confirms that men still dominate the field of film criticism.
Another study found that cardio isn’t the only benefit to dancing.
Dance Magazine writes about how more dancers are setting up practices outside the coastal art centers of New York and L.A.
Artists Nan Goldin, Maya Lin, and Faith Ringgold made Time’s list of the 100 Most Influential People of 2022.
Goldin was also awarded the 2022 Käthe Kollwitz Prize.
Past Wex guest and Fresh Air icon Terry Gross won the Peabody’s Institutional Award.
And Patti Smith received France’s highest honor.
The Wallace Foundation announced the recipients of its first phase of grants focused on supporting artists of color; San Francisco’s Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project and Brooklyn’s The Laundromat Project are among them.
Alison Saar’s sculpture of Lorraine Hansberry will be unveiled in Times Square next month.
The Warhol Museum launched a $60 million expansion as part of an effort to establish a Pittsburgh “Pop District”.
A couple walked into a Chelsea gallery and tried to walk out with a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting.
Composer Vangelis, known for creating soundtracks for Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire, died at the age of 79.
And actor Ray Liotta passed away in his sleep at the age of 67. Here are some tributes to Lotta from colleagues including Martin Scorsese.

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