Weekend reading: November 26 edition

Around Columbus

• More exciting news about our Learning & Public Practice Director Dionne Custer Edwards: she’s a new member of the board of advocacy organization Arts Midwest.
• Saturday afternoon, Franklinton Arts District is kicking off a yearlong celebration of the neighborhood’s centennial with a small business and nonprofit showcase.
• Secret Studio is joining the fun Saturday with a Christmas tree sale.
• Sarah Gormley Gallery features the latest paintings by Craig Carlisle during a exhibition reception on Saturday.
• If you feel like staying in Saturday, tune into VergeFM at 7 PM for Voidwave, a collaborative sound work by L.A.-based artists Kim Zumpfe and Linda Franke.
• Sunday morning, the holiday maker opportunities continue with the Holiday Olde Towne Market at 700 Bryden, featuring over 50 vendors including Carol Isabel Art, Nomad Pots, and Vanessa Jean Speckman.
• Local treasure Miles Curtiss has branched out into comic books.
• Columbus authors Hanif Abdurraqib, Maggie Smith, and Elissa Washuta are getting year-end love from places like NPR and the New York Times.
• Looking ahead to next weekend, on Friday Columbus Winterfair takes over the Ohio Expo Center.
• Also next Friday, Ace of Cups hosts the 13th annual Guided by Voices Appreciation Night.
• The Discovery District will offer a Trolley Hop Saturday afternoon. 
• Blockfort will be one trolley stop with its Saturday afternoon Holiday Open House, the site’s last open studio before Christmas.
• CCAD has its annual Art Fair & Marketplace Saturday, opening for early birds at 9 AM.
• Also on Saturday the 4th, North Market will also host a Holiday Market.
• The Vanderelli Room will host a Saturday morning Holi-Drag Story Time outdoors for families with Mikayla Denise and Bianca Debonair.
• WinterFest will take place on the Scioto Mile Saturday afternoon, with music, food trucks, and craft beers.
• Looking back, check out this footage of the Ohio State Oval and nearby North High Street from 1965, discovered in Mershon Auditorium’s projection booth by our own Rachael Barbash.

Around the globe

• Tuesday at 1 PM, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will host a Zoom chat with photographer and social justice artist Tonika Johnson.
• Wednesday, you can sign to spend a virtual evening inside the Rare Book Room at the New York Public Library.
• Thursday afternoon, you can Zoom in for a conversation about the Pacific Film Archives and the legacy of nonprofit film exhibition with critic B. Ruby Rich and industry luminaries like MoMA’s Rajendra Roy.
• And next Friday morning, there’s a webinar about the practices of film censorship in Asia with panelists including Park Sungho, programmer for the Cambodia International Film Fest and the Busan International Film Fest.
• Here’s how you can watch Monday night’s Gotham Awards ceremony.
• Indie film preservation organization IndieCollect announced a new advisory board with members such as Mary Harron, Richard Linklater, Whit Stillman, and Julie Taymor. 
• Film scholar Dr. Allyson Nadia Field talked about “lost” Black films from the earliest days of cinema and the story behind the 1898 short Something Good - Negro Kiss.
• Here’s an update on the real-world impact of recent documentaries like Who Killed Malcolm X?
• You can’t keep Hayao Miyazaki down for long.
• Sterlin Harjo, cocreator of the amazing FX show Reservation Dogs, has a new doc premiering on Netflix this week about Native artists working to bolster Indigenous voices.
• Worn out by holiday small talk? Dig into the transcript of John Waters’ “non-roast” of soon-to-retire American Visionary Art Museum founder Rebecca Hoffberger.
• The Brooklyn Museum got a massive cash infusion from the City of New York.
• In the latest poll of the pandemic’s impact on art consumption, more respondents are saying that arts organizations mean more to them personally.
• The first Gallery Climate Coalition conference took place this week and yielded guidelines for the art world to reduce its carbon footprint.
• A really cool fate awaits the trees used in Maya Lin’s outdoor installation Ghost Forest.
• Radiohead switched gears with a planned museum exhibition, creating instead a virtual exhibition for PlayStation.
• A British curator has been accused of making NFTs of work by artists including Anish Kapoor without their permission.
• Speaking of, there’s now a torrent site where NFTs are being traded for free.
• Frank Stella discussed the sculptural work he’s contributed to the World Trade Center site.
• Here’s a new Art21 piece on New York-based sculptor Jes Fan, who uses organic materials like testosterone and melanin in his works.
• Artist Sara Hendren discussed the stage ramps she’s designed for disabled dancers.
• Critic and author Dave Hickey passed away at the age of 82.
• And legendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim died at the age of 91. Here’s his last interview.

Hope everyone had a safe, happy Thanksgiving and Happy Hanukkah wishes for this coming week to all who celebrate.