Weekend reading: November 13 edition

Around Columbus

• ICYMI, the Paul Lazar/Bebe Miller performances of Cage Shuffle from November 1 are streaming through November 22, and the New York Times says you should check them out.
• Tuesday night, local writer Travis Hoewischer will have an online talk about his new baby naming book published by Two Dollar Radio.
• Starting Wednesday, Those Who Spring of Me, a new feature film about a young, non-verbal man with autism by Matt Swift and Nicolette Swift, will stream as part of the ReelAbilities Film Fest.
• Thursday morning via Zoom, the Columbus Museum of Art opens a discussion with local artists on using art as a tool for well being.
• The Columbus Symphony Orchestra is going virtual with a performance of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue Thursday night.
• You have until next Friday, November 20, to submit film and photography work for ROY G BIV’s annual ImageOHIO exhibition, scheduled to open in February.
• Over on YouTube, artists Laura Sanders and Otis Kwame kye quaicoe talk about Sander’s current show at Contemporary Art Matters.
• Togo-born artist Talle Bamazi has a new show at Brandt-Roberts Galleries that you can see virtually.
• Here’s more on the huge mural Lisa McLymont, Hakim Callwood, and other local artists painted on 5th Ave. to launch the “Deliver Black Dreams” project.
• If you must go out, Glass Axis has an outdoor installation of face masks transformed by Columbus youth. Don’t forget to bring one of your own.
• While in Franklinton, you can schedule a private viewing of the new Secret Studio group show, with local treasures like Kate Sweeney and Michael Bush.
• And here’s an update on where things stand with annual holiday events and performances like The Nutcracker in the wake of the COVID-19 surge.

Around the globe

• John Waters (pictured at top of page during a visit to the Wex last year) has bequeathed his personal art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the institution’s bathrooms are being renamed in his honor. 
• Through November 27, The National Museum of the American Indian is hosting dozens of online screenings of work from 49 Native Nations.
• Nominations for the Gotham Awards, which unofficially kick off awards season each year, have been announced—and every film nominated for Best Picture was directed by a woman. Congrats to past Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Kelly Reichardt for making the cut with First Cow.
• Struggling movie theaters are desperate for lame duck Congress to give them some relief.
• The importance of keeping them open is highlighted in this essay from Vice writer Simran Hans about how independent theaters helped inspire a love of learning.
• Werner Herzog has a new documentary about the site of the largest asteroid impact on Earth, debuting this weekend on Apple TV+.
• New York Times critic Manohla Dargis has an ode to Margot Robbie, Charlize Theron, Michelle Yeoh, and other women who wallop on screen.
• Unorthodocs filmmaker Ephraim Asili is among Filmmaker Magazine’s list of “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” 
• Sunday afternoon, culinary historian Laura Shapiro and interdisciplinary artist Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz will talk global food access and its ties to gender, class, and labor in an online event from the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
• On Wednesday, the eight-hour virtual fundraiser Performa Telethon will feature performances by artists including Laurie Anderson and Jason Moran, as well as a reading by Torkwase Dyson. You’ll be seeing more of her work in our galleries this winter.
• Artists including Dread Scott and Judy Chicago shared their reactions to the presidential election.
• A post-election video from the Biden-Harris campaign took inspiration from artist Lorraine O’Grady.
• Artist Paul Chan shared a new artwork in response to the presidential election, and his thoughts on the ordeal.
• Dance critic Gia Kourlas has an interesting perspective on the eruptions of dancing in the street last weekend.
• Here’s the story behind those dancing mailboxes that popped up at the “Count Every Vote” demonstrations in Philadelphia.
• Kent State professor Gregory King offered some ground rules for creating a more inclusive dance world, from teaching to presenting.
• New York cultural worker Melissa Saenz Gordon makes a case for the idea that politics needs more creatives.
• The Guardian has a small but powerful sampling of over 500 portraits of British National Health Service workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic that were painted as gifts to them by volunteer artists.
• Gilbert & George have gotten into mask design, in collaboration with London artist Sam Harris.
• Black, disabled writer and curator Sami Schalk talked about a project centered on “pleasure activism,” a celebration of the mundane that began as a way to deal with her own pandemic-fueled depression.
• Catch up with seven artists, including Sanford Biggers and Sable Elyse Smith, who create work to call for social change.
• A group of high school students in Spanish Harlem created a large and impressive mural inspired by Carmen Herrera. 
• Here’s a new piece on how body-based art is changing in the age of social distancing.
• Dawoud Bey, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and Julie Mehretu are among the all-star list of artists tapped for a Chicago exhibition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the MacArthur “Genius” grants.
• Lastly, to honor Alex Trebek, the beloved Jeopardy! host who passed away this week, Artnet has compiled some of the trickiest art questions to come up in past shows. 

Stay safe, everyone.