Weekend Reading: November 24 Edition

Around Ohio

• As we officially move into the season, here’s a holiday playlist option: a new album of twisted seasonal covers from the band Van Dale.
• Singer-songwriter Lydia Loveless spoke to Matter about her new album and upcoming tour, which includes a Saturday night show at Natalie’s Grandview.
• Sunday morning brings a studio sale of works by artists such as Todd Camp and Koranna Spurgeon to Columbus Performing Arts Center.
• Wild Cat has expanded its annual Moonlight Madness sale of handcrafted gifts to include a Cyber Monday event.
• Arts Midwest announced the recipients of a 2024 GIG Fund grant, including Columbus’s own Healing Broken Circles.
• Cleveland Ballet CEO Michael Krasnyansky has resigned in response to mysterious allegations involving his tenure and that of his wife, former Artistic Director Gladisa Guadalupe.
• Thursday, the student-led art exhibition Miscellaneous opens at Hopkins Hall Gallery.
• Friday, 934 Gallery opens In Transition: Untethered by Heidi Clifford.
• Throughout next weekend, more handmade shopping options will be available at the annual Columbus Winterfair.
• Then there’s CCAD Art Fair & Marketplace on Saturday.
• And the 107th Thumb Box exhibition from Ohio Art League.
• Next Saturday is also Holiday Hop; new shows from Kayla Suzanne Holdgreve at Sean Christopher Gallery and a salon show of artists repped by Sharon Weiss Gallery.

Around the Globe

• The entrance of the Whitney Museum wound up covered in fake blood.
• Mariët Westermann has been named the first woman to lead the Guggenheim Museum and Foundation.
• Longtime Chelsea gallery Cheim & Reid is closing after 26 years.
• Inuit artist Kablusiak has won the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s top prize in the field.
• Also up north, people are wondering why Indigenous art curator Wanda Nanibush left the Art Gallery of Ontario.
• The BBC is claiming that a previously lost interview reveals the answer to a burning question: the true identity of Banksy.
• Artist Reem Ahmed shared with illustrator Rama Duwaji her experience of being trapped under rubble in Gaza for 12 hours.
• In absentia, another member of Pussy Riot—cofounder Nadya Tolokonnikova—was arrested in Moscow.
• Here’s a piece that finds the parallels between declining attendance at churches and museums.
• The Times went multimedia for a look back at Wiliiam Friedkin’s The Exorcist on its 50th anniversary.
• Here’s a look behind the scenes of what it’s like to work with animation legend Hayao Miyazaki.
• Frederick Wiseman discussed the making of a lifelong dream project: the four-hour French restaurant doc Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros, which screens at the Wex on January 13 and 14.
• Entertainment powerhouses Warner Bros. Discovery and Sony joined Apple and Lionsgate to make a clean break from X and the rhetoric of its billionaire owner.
• The flurry of coverage around the SAG-AFTRA deal includes this nod to the crucial role of women in the strike captain network. Nonetheless, some union members aren’t happy with the final agreement on AI.
• Dance Magazine announced its 2023 award honorees, including DeafDisabled choreographer Antoine Hunter.
• Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year is “hallucinate.”
• The Yale Review wrote about the increasing prominence of Lorraine Hansberry’s queer identity and related writings.
• Two new books take on the cultural significance and enduring appeal of mixtapes.
• Teachers around the world have stepped into the remote learning space to continue education for Afghan women living under the Taliban.
• Composer David Del Tredici passed away at the age of 86.
• Photographer Majd Arandas died at 29.