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Weekend Reading: November 4 Edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Nov 04, 2022

The four members of Brainiac sit at a table in a red-tinted room with a red curtain in the background. Two are holding up glass panels that create the effect of distorting their faces.

Still from Eric Mahoney's 2019 documentary Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero, image courtesy of the filmmaker

Around Ohio

A collage by Tiffany Lawson. The colorful work presents photographic overlays of clouds, skies, and landscapes with three human figures filling the center and center-right

Tiffany Lawson, What the Manna?, image courtesy of Sean Christopher Gallery

Here’s some fresh gushing about this Thursday’s visit from Pam Grier.
Up-and-coming local media player Matter News wrote about the work of Tiffany Lawson, who debuts a new show at Sean Christopher Gallery during this weekend’s Gallery Hop. Matter also offered a new essay on Hanif Abdurraqib.
Justus Dominguez, now in his second year as a Wex accessibility intern, discussed his career path with the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities.
Greater Columbus Arts Council had a Big Arts Night, and here's who went home with awards.
GCAC also announced that Beverly Whiteside is the 2023 Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Fellow.
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus is featured in this story about the return of small press shows.
The State Department has selected Cleveland’s Spaces Gallery to organize an exhibition at the 2023 Venice Biennale.
Here’s a chance to catch up with the music of legendary Dayton band Brainiac ahead of its upcoming reunion tour.
Local architecture firm Moody Nolan has been tapped to design a new building for Howard University.
Cleveland Museum of Art Associate Curator Key Jo Lee is moving to San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora.
The catalogue for the Columbus Museum of Art’s new Maurice Sendak show caught the eye of Artforum.
Monday, Integrated Schools Columbus hosts an online book club around Wil Haygood’s Tigerland.
Wednesday, Saeed Jones and Isaac Fitzgerald will be in conversation at WOSU Studios.
Looking to next weekend, Franklinton Fridays brings new shows by Katie Forbes and Creative Women of Color, among others.
Also Friday, Blockfort hosts the group show Nostalgia.
And Art of Recovery is at the Columbus Museum of Art.

Around the globe

Point-of-view shot featuring the shadow of a person in a wheelchair seen on a crosswalk. To the right of the shadow is the lower half of a person who is walking.

Reid Davenport's I Didn't See You There, image courtesy of The Film Collaborative

Arts Midwest is accepting applications for two national grants programs supporting writing and literacy.
Ahead of the midterms, ARTnews called out the arts patrons who’ve been giving big to Republicans.
A pro-voting billboard campaign designed by artists Deborah Kass and Cleon Peterson was censored in Georgia.
Google is getting into the AI-generated art game.
The National Gallery of Art will be putting a $10 million donation toward purchases of work by women artists.
A new Art 21 video features the fascinating work of Kameelah Janan Rasheed.
Enjoy a priceless T Magazine piece with artist June Leaf.
Cindy Sherman joined the board of the International Center of Photography.
A neuroscientist explained how different factors can affect how our brains process color.
H/t to Wex Accessibility Manager Helyn Marshall for this short about why Sign Language was once banned in America.
Here’s a piece about the benefits and challenges of bringing dance to museum galleries.
Entertainment Weekly spilled the backstory on the Nicholas Brothers’ most jaw-dropping dance number.
The Gotham Award nominations are out; nominees include I Didn’t See You There, the doc we recently copresented with Art Possible Ohio.
There’s a new Criterion Channel spotlight on the work of early Method actor John Garfield.
Northwest Film Forum granted $20,000 to aspiring director Isabel Acevedo in honor of late filmmaker Lynn Shelton.
After a decade away from the big screen, Wong Kar-Wai has released a trailer for his new project, Blossoms Shanghai.
And it’s Daylight Saving Time this weekend. Here’s one way to spend your extra hour.