Weekend Reading: November 17 Edition

Around Columbus

• Sunday afternoon, Hawk Galleries downtown opens a group show featuring work by 14 glass artists including Lisa Horkin and Nate Ricciuto.
• The start of the holiday season seems like a good time to get into ecstatic dancing, and Sunday night brings your chance.
• Columbus Museum of Art Director Brooke Minto was profiled in Columbus Monthly.
• Minto will also be joining Wex Executive Director Gaëtane Verna Monday for a community conversation about equity in the arts hosted by the Lincoln Theatre and its Executive Director, Suzan Bradford. Demetries Neely, who leads King Arts Complex, will also join, and Shelbi Toone, project director of the Poindexter Village Museum and Cultural Center, will moderate.
• Tuesday night at the Vanderelli Room, you can check out the current show of works by and inspired by Richard Duarte Brown while checking out a live event celebrating the work of TRANSIT ARTS and participating youth.
• Local treasure Jeff Smith discussed his recovery from cardiac arrest and his latest project.
• Maggie Smith wrote an exclusive essay for Time.
• Rob Harvilla talked about developing his podcast focus on songs from the ‘90s into his first book.
• Columbus native Guy Fieri is bringing a new music and food fest to town.
• We’re behind on this one, but it’s worth sharing: a Columbus Dispatch roundup of 9 odd Ohio Museums, including museums dedicated to hot dogs and popcorn.
• Lastly, if you’re able, you could show some support for Wex community partner Community Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS)—it’s working to support local Haitian refugees who became victims of a housing scam.

Around the Globe

• Artist and curator Anaïs Duplan, a contributor to our gallery guide for Meditation Ocean, had his collaboration with a German museum canceled over Duplan’s pro-Palestine statements on Instagram.
• In a sign of the times, fights broke out in front of Los Angeles’s Museum of Tolerance.
• SFMOMA, facing low attendance, has cut 20 staffers.
• Tracey Emin became the first woman appointed as trustee of the British Museum.
• The ex-director of the Orlando Museum of Art claims he’s been scapegoated in the institutional scandal involving forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings.
• The Louvre acquired a rare 13th century Cimabue painting that was put in the trash by its initial owner.
• Costume designer Ruth E. Carter and photographer Omar Victor Diop are featured in this piece about a dozen African artists driving a cultural renaissance. 
• The Jar, a gathering space in Boston, is using the arts to intentionally bring together communities of all stripes, to combat tribalism.
• Salon wrote about how the arts are a perfect tool for changing the narrative around addiction.
• And Wired covered the power of movies to help personal healing.
• The Atlantic considered the post-strike future of Hollywood.
• Slamdance announced its opening night film for 2024.
• A new doc on Max tells the story of David Holmes, a stunt double for Daniel Radcliffe on the Harry Potter films who was paralyzed in an on-set accident.
• NPR landed an extensive interview with André 3000 about his much talked-about new solo album.
• Best known for his work with Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure, Vince Clarke has ventured into solo album territory at age 63.
• Irish composer Jennifer Walshe discussed her new work, Some Notes on Martian Sonic Aesthetics 2034–51.
• Justin Torres won the National Book Award for fiction; Ned Blackhawk took the nonfiction prize.
• Salman Rushdie won the first-ever Lifetime Disturbing the Peace Award.
• A new book reveals the story of Beatles roadie and confidant Mal Evans.
• The Washington Post got a head start on year-end season with its critics’ list of the 10 best books of 2023.
• Veteran dance writer Wendy Perron chimed in with her picks for the year’s best dance books.
• Audio description for dance is poised to become its own art form.
• Citing health concerns, Alvin Ailey Company Artistic Director Robert Battle is stepping down from the position.
• British Pop artist Joe Tilson passed at 95.
• Artist Radcliffe Bailey passed away at 55 from brain cancer.
• Legendary music presenter John Morris died at age 84.
• Author AS Byatt died at the age of 87.
• And John Bailey, the cinematographer behind films such as Groundhog Day, American Gigolo, and Swimming to Cambodia, died at age 81.