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Weekend Reading: November 10 Edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Nov 10, 2023

Four adults with brown skin wearing silvery suits, bow ties, and sunglasses face the camera in a row before a dark green wall.

Blind Boys of Alabama, photo: ©Danish Saroee

Around Columbus

Interior view of a hollow tower made of large, colorful, perforated squares of plastic. A large reflective sphere is placed high at the center of it.

Sahar Khoury, Untitled (radio tower accessories) (2023), installation view at the Wexner Center for the Arts; photo: Robert Divers Herrick

The Dispatch’s Nancy Gilson shared her impressions following a visit to our autumn exhibitions, calling Sahar Khoury’s Untitled (radio tower accessories) a particular standout.
Artist and graphic novelist Doug Fordyce spoke about his first solo show since 2005, now on view at 934 Gallery.
Columbus-born artist Amanda Ba shared what's behind her current show at No Place Gallery.
Tuesday evening, Art Possible Ohio offers the workshop “Creative Exploration with Altered Books” at 1221 Art Space.
Wednesday, Greater Columbus Arts Council leads a workshop on the process of applying to the Columbus Arts Fest.
A fundraiser for the locally produced feature Down to the Felt also happens Wednesday.
Thursday, you can take a tour of the new McConnell Arts Center exhibition guided by its artists, Catherine Bell Smith and Maxi Ponce de León.
Shopping alert to support local creatives: all next weekend, Whetstone Community Center hosts the Clintonville Arts Guild Holiday Show and Sale and Ohio History Connection hosts NOBO Arts & Gifts Holiday 2023.

Around the Globe

A woman looks at the camera as she lies in a pond. She leans forward on a turtle-shaped fountain and writes in a diary.

The Disappearance of Shere Hite, screening in-person and online via DOC NYC, courtesy of IFC Films

Blind Boys of Alabama have been nominated for three Grammys for their latest album, Echoes of the South. Got your tickets yet for the gospel group’s show this Wednesday at Mershon? Here’s a playlist featuring Blind Boys’s collaborative work to get you in the right head space.
The Roots cofounder Tariq Trotter has a new memoir.
Choreographer and past Wex guest Raja Feather Kelly spoke to Slate about best practices for staying creative.
The SAG-AFTRA strike finally ended. Did Hollywood learn any lessons?
Over the next 10 days, tributes to Garrett Bradley and Peter Greenaway will take place at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
DOC NYC is happening through November 26—and it has a robust virtual program. Subjects include sex researcher Shere Hite and artist Scooter LaForge.
Vittorio De Sica’s postwar tale of two boys, Shoeshine, streams for free this weekend from The Film Foundation.
Here’s a heartfelt obit for Netflix’s DVD service.
Speaking of the company, here’s a piece about how Netflix started a streaming phenomenon that reinvented, and ultimately broke, TV.
Sofia Coppola reflected on Priscilla.
Indigenous filmgoers shared mixed reviews of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.
Indigenous artists Rose B. Simpson, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Jeremy Dennis discussed the importance of community in their respective work.
Bethany Collins is having a big moment. The artist’s work was featured in our summer 2017 show Gray Matters.
Pittsburgh’s Frick Museum canceled a planned exhibition of Islamic art. The museum has since apologized for this decision.
Helen Molesworth sat down to chat about her new collection of essays with Artnet.
The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation is being sued by the artist’s nephew for allegedly destroying her legacy.
The New York nonprofit ArtTable collected data on the financial challenges of working in the art world.
The director of the National Museum in Budapest has been fired for presenting images with LGBTQ+ content as part of a World Press Photo exhibition.
With opposition parties overtaking the far right government of Poland in a recent election, Polish cultural figures are trying to figure out how to address the outgoing administration’s political reshaping of the cultural sector.
Here’s a fresh list of 26 artworks targeted by climate activists.
Four men have been charged with absconding with Maurizio Cattelan’s gold toilet.
An NFT event hosted by Bored Ape Yacht Club literally burned the eyes of attendees.
Broadcast and audio companies are now eligible for Pulitzer Prizes.
Here’s a piece about why swearing can be so f***ing satisfying.
And another word story about how our brains store and retrieve our personal vocabularies.
Lastly, there’s new technology that provides a window into how brains are activated by different types of art.

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