Weekend reading: October 2 edition

Around Columbus

• Cartoon Crossroads Columbus is running through October 5, promising a who’s who of guests and other community-building activities in an all-virtual program.
• Hop from Home starts at 1 PM Saturday, featuring work by artists including Barb Vogel and Paul Hamilton, plus a 10th anniversary celebration for Brandt-Roberts Galleries.
• Saturday also brings the rescheduled Columbus Pride Parade.
• 934 Gallery has opened a show of striking abstract works by Nicholas Warndorf.
• Venues in Franklinton including ROY G BIV and The Vanderelli Room are hosting The Art of Voting all weekend, which combines voter info and registration opportunities with performances and an art market. (Disclosure: this writer is among the event organizers.)
• In advance of Monday’s voter registration deadline, the incomparable Miles Curtiss, aka Marvin the Robot, has put together a voter registration inspiration playlist.
• Congrats to our friends in the local media for their many wins this week in Ohio’s Best Journalism Contest, including Jaelani Turner-Williams for her fine piece for 614 on our fall 2019 exhibition HERE: Ann Hamilton, Jenny Holzer, Maya Lin.

Around the globe

• The New York Times shared a list of 20 essential films about the American Latino experience, including the hit Netflix doc about astrologer Walter Mercado, Mucho Mucho Amor. (pictured at top of page)
• Not to be outdone, The Guardian ranked the 20 best African films, including recent faves by Mati Diop and Rungano Nyoni.
• The National Association of Theater Owners is begging Congress to help struggling cinemas through a letter signed by Christopher Nolan, Sofia Coppola, Alfonso Cuarón, among others.
• Tim Griffin, director of the New York art space The Kitchen (and husband of Wex Director Johanna Burton) is stepping down for a visiting professorship at Ohio State.
• The Smithsonian has named New York poet Kevin Young as the next director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
• Artists such as Nicole Eisenman and Zoe Leonard are speaking out against the controversial postponement of a Philip Guston retrospective.
• The Whitney Biennial won’t be happening before 2022.
• But there’s a new Cindy Sherman exhibition available now for online viewing.
• Keith Haring’s personal art collection was auctioned this week to raise fund for New York’s LGBT Center.
• Having no major collection with which to raise funds, art collective MSCHF turned their medical bills into art that was sold off to pay off the debt.
• The BBC might be in trouble.
• Meanwhile, America’s own PBS is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
• Americans for the Arts has a new manifesto for creative workers.
• Here’s a consideration of how creativity changes with age.
• Details are still emerging around how the 17th century painter Artemesia Gentileschi was way more than just an art historical rape victim.
• This week, who couldn’t use a rundown on the most popular art dogs of Instagram? Among those who made the cut, painter Amy Sherald’s dogs George and Weezie.
• Ten theater workers including actors Kristine Nielsen and Shonda Thurman share what it’s been like to return to work.
• Lastly, to close out Banned Books Week, check out this list of the most “challenged” books of the decade.