Weekend reading: October 16 edition

Around Ohio

• The partnership between the Wex, Orange Barrel Media, and artists like Jenny Holzer and Carrie Mae Weems was written up in Hyperallergic.
• The Wex now has the honor of being right across the street from Willie Phoenix Way.
• Fuse Factory has a new concert on YouTube from past Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Brian Harnetty.
• Our hearts and best wishes are with the Columbus Museum of Art following new of pandemic-related staff and budget cutbacks.
• Artist Bryan Moss is teaching an afternoon class Monday in monster drawing online via Grandview Heights Public Library.
• BalletMet Columbus has a new virtual performance, In Creases, streaming for free all weekend.
• Theater company Dayton Live has illustrated the difficulty of reopening under the current guidelines from the governor.
• CCAD is currently having a "Big A** Virtual Yard Sale" with major deals on art supplies to prep for its supply store merging with merch shop Ampersand Emporium.
• There’s still time to nominate a local hero to get a free concert by a local musician delivered to their sidewalk in a program sponsored by the Greater Columbus Arts Council.
• Speaking of GCAC, congrats to All People Arts and the other organizations in the inaugural group of recipients of the council’s First Thrive program grants.
• Wednesday, you can observe a free conversation between The New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander and How to Be an Antiracist author Ibram X. Kendi hosted by The New Albany Community Foundation.
• Or you can check out an online panel about Black power in comics that includes local comic artist Victor Dandridge and actress-artist Lisa Shepherd, co-hosted by the Bexley Public Library.

Around the globe

• This weekend and next, Isabella Rossellini is streaming performances from her New York farm of Sex & Consequences, a new sequel to Green Porno with more animal costars.
• Broadway has extended its shutdown to May 2021.
• But a group of large art spaces like The Shed and Harlem Stage are trying to reopen now.
• Saturday brings a conversation from the Fowler Museum at UCLA at 6 PM ET: “Share the Mic: Incarcerated Voices,” focused on how cultural institutions can help destigmatize artists in prison.
• Sunday at 5 PM, you can Zoom into a chat from Hauser & Wirth with curator Jasmine Wahl and artists Derrick Adams and Sanford Biggers.
• A virtual version of New York-based LGBTQ film fest Newfest is streaming through October 27.
• To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the release of Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, Kronos Quartet recorded a masked, distanced performance of the film’s theme.
• Through the fundraiser States of Change, individuals are welcome to purchase relatively $150 prints by a bevy of A-list artists such as Cindy Sherman, Catherine Opie, Sally Mann, and Nan Goldin to help combat voter suppression.
• Carrie Mae Weems, on top of participating in States of Change and the Orange Barrel Media project, just opened a public art installation to educate people of color on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black Americans.
• The Ford Foundation and the Mellon Foundation announced the recipient of the first round of Disability Futures fellowships. Among them, recent Wex virtual guest Christine Sun Kim and Carolyn Lazard, who’s contributing to our winter exhibition (more info coming soon).
• This is a terrific resource on the role of funding in preserving film and other audio-visual legacies. 
• And this is a solid rundown of the challenges facing museums amid coronavirus shutdowns and charges of white supremacy.
• The city of San Francisco has committed to giving more than 100 local artists a basic income of $1000 a month until the pandemic crisis is over.
• Sculptor Simone Leigh will rep for the US at the 2022 Venice Biennale.
• Here’s a perfectly October story to end with: a woman who stole artifacts from Pompeii is trying to return them because she believes the objects are cursed.