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Weekend Reading: October 11 Edition

Oct 11, 2024

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Top of page: Mike Olenick's Please Be Tender, courtesy of the filmmaker

Around Ohio

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Brother(hood) Dance cofounder and GCAC Artists Elevated grant recipient Orlando Hunter-Valentine, courtesy of the artist

Attention, students: Ohio State is offering asynchronous learning on Election Day to provide more flexibility for getting to the polls.
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Curator Caitlin McGurk joined the gang from Shaturday Morning Cartoons for a look back at the ‘toon version of Frogger.
Greater Columbus Arts Council announced the recipients of its latest Artists Elevated grants, which include Brother(hood) Dance cofounder Orlando Hunter-Valentine and former Wex staffer and award-winning filmmaker Mike Olenick.
Kirsta Benedetti spoke about her work and influences in connection with an October show at Wild Goose Creative, which features portraits of residents in the Ohio Reformatory for Women.
Matter illuminated some of the history behind the posthumous Peter Megert show at Hopkins Hall Gallery. A celebration event for Megert is planned for next Saturday.
Dancer Anne Raspe expounded on her work with Hixon Dance ahead of the company’s shows of Peter and the Wolf this weekend.
Tuesday, Central Community House will host a night honoring retiring local arts powerhouse Jackie Calderone.
Wednesday, Maroon Arts Group is celebrating its new physical home with an afternoon-long open house.
GCAC will have a lunchtime info session Wednesday for artists about the next Columbus Arts Festival at 934 Gallery.
Also Wednesday, Art Possible Ohio leads a workshop on creating inclusive work spaces for individuals with disabilities
And Wednesday night, Capital University has a lecture from historian and Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jefferson Cowie.
Thursday, Columbus Metropolitan Library debuts Making Waves My Way, featuring work by artists from Goodwill Art Studio.
Also Thursday, Fashion Week Columbus hosts Philanthropy Meets Fashion at CCAD.
Friday, Frank Lawson will open a show of his work at The Citadel. (And be sure to check out the IG page featuring new work by him and other artists for POCtober.)
At Grandview’s The Bazaar, a show of work by current Wild Goose exhibiting artist Kirsta Benedetti and Katie Davis opens Friday.
Latino Arts for Humanity is having a Day of the Dead event Saturday at Green Lawn Cemetery.
Ohio History Connection hosts a family-friendly spooky happening Saturday night.
Sara Adrian opens a new solo exhibition at 934 Gallery Saturday.
And Witchlab will be hopping Saturday, with The Dark Market and Arcane Alley returning alongside the exhibition opening Omen of a Black Cat.

Around the Globe

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Don Hertzfeldt, ME, courtesy of the filmmaker

Need another reminder of what you might miss if you sleep on Unorthodocs next week? Here’s a piece about how No Other Land, which screens next Saturday at the Wex, may be the best film of the year not to be picked up for wider distribution.
Animator Don Hertzfeldt released his latest short, ME, on Vimeo on Demand.
On Fresh Air, longtime friends Will Ferrell and Harper Steele discussed their acclaimed Netflix documentary, Will & Harper.
Redbox’s bankruptcy has left large DVD-rental machines orphaned across the US.
Indiewire did a seasonally appropriate and wide-ranging list of the best movie ghost stories.
Boots Riley announced his next film project.
Ava DuVernay, Spike Lee, and Stevie Wonder are among the artists taking part in a new video series by the Harris/Walz campaign.
Actor Sally Field shared a long-secret trauma from her past.
The Guardian served up an excerpt from Al Pacino’s new autobiography.
The 2025 Met Gala will focus on the politics of race under the direction of cochairs including ASAP Rocky and Colman Domingo.
Tampa Museum Executive Director Michael Tomor talked to ARTnews about preparing for Hurricane Milton. Apparently, the institution weathered the storm well enough to reopen this weekend.
Artnet offered a first look at the Whitney Museum exhibition dedicated to Alvin Ailey.
A 1988 work by sculptor Alexandre Lavet was actually thrown away by a museum worker who mistook the item for trash.
Art21 released a vintage Kara Walker interview from 2003 on YouTube.
VIV arts unveiled a new experiential art platform at Frieze with a virtual version of an installation by French Swiss artist Julian Charrière.
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates was the subject of a controversial interview on CBS.
Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor wrote about the possibilities of arts crowdfunding for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Musician Kate Nash shared her love for artist Tracey Emin.
There was more bad news from the beleaguered Internet Archive.
Han Kang became the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Artist and poet James Magee died at 79.
Grammy-winning music matriarch Cissy Houston died at the age of 91.
The day before she passed away at 96, writer Lore Segal was featured in The New York Times for her remarkable perspective on age and dying. (The page also links to her obituary.)