Weekend Reading: November 11 Edition

Around Columbus

• ICYMI, The Dispatch’s Nancy Gilson wrote up our current exhibitions featuring the work of Carlos Motta and Carol Newhouse.
• The news outlet also declared our Monday screening of Where is Anne Frank with guest filmmaker Ari Folman worthy of your time.
• Scott Woods had some pointed words to share about what he calls “the Art Industrial Complex.”
• There’s a new artist fellowship opportunity available through Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
• Wednesday, King Arts Complex presents Sounds of Blackness: A Celebration of African American Music with the Central State University Chorus.
• Thursday at 5 PM brings a chance for artists to learn more about participating in the Columbus Arts Festival.
• Weird VHS collectors, bring out your favorites for Secret Tape Thursday night at Double Happiness.
• Also Thursday, Columbus College of Art & Design opens Michael Mercil: Some thing(s) and a show of posters from the Tolerance Project.
• Holiday activities kicks into gear next weekend with NOBO Arts & Gifts at the Ohio History Connection.
• And the Clintonville Arts Guild Holiday Show and Sale at Whetstone Community Center.
• And Conservatory Aglow, happening Saturday at Franklin Park Conservatory.
• Also next Saturday, Columbus Metropolitan Library opens Something Different, Something Beautiful, a show of work by artists of Ghanian descent.
• And next weekend is your last chance to catch Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy at MadLab.

Around the globe

• The LA Times noted the conundrum now faced by arts and culture journalists on Twitter.
• Here’s a great new profile of past Wex Artist Residency Award winner Torkwase Dyson.
• The International Council of Museums officially spoke out against the act of climate activists targeting art.
• New funding guidelines at Arts Council England have resulted in massive cuts to organizations in London and other major cities.
• In other cuts across the pond, Sweden’s state-run museums will have to start charging admission.
• New York City Mayor Eric Adams has tapped four artists to help solve problems like houselessness and gun violence.
• And a new NYC law around salary transparency resulted in this data dive.
• The Warhol Museum has discovered and digitized rare master tracks of the Velvet Underground’s debut album.
• Maya Cade wrote about building a living Black film archive.
• Frederick Wiseman paid a visit to the Criterion Collection’s closet.
• Navalny and All That Breathes are among the nominees for this year’s International Documentary Association Awards.
• Those films were also nominated for Cinema Eye Honors, alongside 2021 Unorthodocs selection Users by Natalia Almada.
• Need something new to stream? PBS has Girl Talk, a new doc about girls in the competitive world of high school debate, available for free through the end of the month.
• The BBC wrote about the impact of the golden age of “hagsploitation cinema” on perceptions of older women.
• Dance Magazine wrote about choreographers who address the US prison system in their work.
• Current New York hits such as Gabriel Byrne’s Walking With Ghosts suggest that one-person shows are having a moment.
• NaNoWriMo is underway. Here’s an argument for using the occasion to produce something bad.
• British artist Emily Hesse passed away at the age of 42.
• Artist Lee Bontecou passed away at 91.
• And Brazilian singer Gal Costa died at the age of 77.