Weekend reading: October 15 edition

Around Columbus

• Saturday night, WitchLab is hosting an occult dance party at the Vanderelli Room.
• Get ready for our Monday visit from author Wil Haygood with this interview about his new book.
• Tuesday night, Learning & Public Practice Director Dionne Custer Edwards will join Hanif Abdurraqib for a talk at CCAD about mental health challenges faces by young Black, indigenous, and POC creatives. 
• Celeste Malvar-Stewart is the latest artist to go small for the dollhouse-sized S.Dot Gallery.
• Our neighbors at the Ohio State Fine Arts Library are hosting the mini exhibition Shelving Unit by Molly Jo Burke and Nathan Gorgen. The artists will hold a virtual talk about it on October 26.
• For some seasonal fun, the musical Young Frankenstein is lighting up Short North Stage through November 7.
• Columbus-based writer Saeed Jones unloaded on the controversial new Dave Chappelle special in GQ.
• The Greater Columbus Arts Council set the dates for the 2022 Columbus Arts Festival, and found a new location: the Arena District.
• Wednesday, you can meditate under the full moon in Whetstone Park.
• On Thursday, Maroon Arts Group will host the multidisciplinary event Roots: An Open Expression of Identity.
• Next Friday morning, educator and Wex intern Lori Esposito will lead a virtual class on photographing artwork for exhibits.
• And that night, writer Bela Koe-Krompecher and friends will be at Secret Studio.

Around the globe

• Leading LGBTQ film festival NewFest is back with a hybrid edition for 2021. Here’s the lineup.
• Wednesday, Arts Midwest is hosting a webinar on using creativity to call attention to water quality issues.
• Also Wednesday, the New York Times has a virtual program on the cultural power of Homecoming events on historically Black campuses.
• Another option that day: join artists and writers Jerron Herman, Georgina Kleege, and Julia Watts for a virtual discussion about disability as a source of creativity.
• This coming week, Solange Knowles will launch a free public library of rare books featuring Black artists and poets.
• Glenn Ligon is part of the new crop of “The Greats,” as determined by the New York Times Style Magazine, alongside other artists like actor Juliette Binoche.
• Julie Mehretu is the latest artist to join the board of The Whitney.
• MoMA has named Sarah Suzuki as its new associate director, among other staff announcements.
• The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees—or AFSCME—released a report about PPP loans in the arts and culture sector, and the results are not great.
• Here’s the first round of recipients for the Joan Mitchell Fellowship.
• Black artist coalitions such as Authority Collective represent a resurgence of these groups from their heyday in the 1960s and ‘70s. 
• Following the big Facebook and Instagram outage, artist Clarity Haynes spoke up about the ongoing problem of Instagram and censorship.
• The Art Newspaper considered how NFTs could roll back the environmental gains made in the art world during the pandemic.
• Graphene, an atom-thick material that blocks UV rays and oxygen, is showing promise as a protectant for artworks.
• If you weren’t able to sign up for the NO EVIL EYE CINEMA learning program Film Futura, here’s a little of what you missed: a video essay on the links between early cinema techniques and Tik Tok. Don’t forget, NO EVIL EYE cofounder Ingrid Raphaël will be joining us next Friday with their new doc They Won’t Call It Murder.
• Todd Haynes spoke about his excellent new documentary, The Velvet Underground.
• And John Carpenter talked about scoring the new film Halloween Kills.
• Actors, here’s a how-to on the surprisingly challenging art of playing drunk.
• Here’s a story on People Not Mascots, a website launched to help individuals report and protest Native mascots in their states.
• The National Academy of Sciences crunched the data and found a correlation between Confederate monuments and racial violence.
• Here’s a peek at the process behind institutional loans for exhibitions, via the Broad Art Foundation. 
• Legendary Disney animator Ruthie Tompson died at the age of 111.
• And producer Diane Weyermann, who worked on films such as An Inconvenient Truth, CitizenFour, and American Utopia, passed away this week at the age of 66.