Weekend Reading: October 20 Edition

Around Ohio

• We’re happy to share with all the two playlists created for this past Friday’s memorial events for Wex Accessibility Manager Helyn Marshall. The first playlist was made for the celebration of Helyn’s life; the second reflects her years on the dance floor at the local Ladies’ ‘80s nights.
• Columbus Underground’s Hope Madden spoke to our own Chris Stults about next week’s Unorthodocs.
• Then she spoke to Ohio News Bureau about why so many horror movies are set in Ohio.
• Linda Lee Baird, the Wex’s Associate Director of Advancement Communications, leant her skills to Columbus Monthly for a piece on pumpkin sculptor Gus Smithhisler.
• This Sunday is Art Critique Night at Wild Goose.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art is not taking the Manhattan DA’s seizure of an allegedly looted bronze statue well.
• WOSU’s Columbus Neighborhoods took a tour through Green Lawn Cemetery with local haunting expert Bucky Cutright.
• Also perfect for spooky season is this Thursday’s webinar with Ohio State faculty member Daniel Collins about the witches, werewolves, and vampires of Slavic folklore.
• Mary Lynn is having an album release party on Thursday as well.
• Friday, Secret Studio lives up to its name with a screening of an as-yet unnamed horror film on 16mm.
• And starting Friday evening, families can line up for Streetlight Guild’s Miniature Halloween Village. There’ll be sensory-friendly hours next Sunday afternoon.

Around the Globe

• An upcoming Wex guest, filmmaker Gregg Araki, discussed his Teenage Apocalypse trio and his disdain of Euphoria in a chat with Richard Linklater for Interview.
• Screen legend Michael Caine announced he’s officially retiring.
• Queer-centered site Autostraddle considered the stuff of teenage characters in the work of our favorite feminist horror director, Jennifer Reeder.
• CBS Sunday Morning checked in with Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Lily Gladstone about the extraordinary Killers of the Flower Moon.
• And the Los Angeles Times noted how Scorsese’s new film only scratches the surface of stories about the Osage Nation.
• A new National Endowment of the Arts survey finds strong digital engagement with the arts but in person, not so much.
• Here’s a fascinating piece about the conservatorial challenge created by artworks made with aging tech.
• A project launched by StoryCorps seems to be building empathy in participants.
• The Blanton Museum of Art opened a show guest-curated by climate writer Jeff Goodell that considers climate change through art.
• And London’s the Barbican turned to the work of artists including Barbara Kruger and Zoe Leonard to connect climate activism with gender inequality.
• Painter Kay WalkingStick spoke to The New York Times about her largest-ever museum show to date.
• Jil Weinstock, executive director of Baxter Street at Camera Club of New York, talked about what she values in art and life.
• The Andy Warhol Museum is about to undergo a major expansion.
• On the occasion of a new box set and tour, the founders of Akron-born Devo discussed their dismay over the de-evolution of culture.
• Thurston Moore talked up his new memoir, Sonic Life.
• Teju Cole, a guest for our 2021 Lambert Lecture, has a new book that uses art as a lens through which to consider a history of violence.
• Another new book reveals the life story of Hannah Crafts, an escaped slave who wrote the earliest known novel by an African American woman. 
• The Indian government prosecuted writer Arundhati Roy for a speech she made 13 years ago.
• Writer and illustrator Michael Cavna told, in comic form, the story of how Art Spiegelman became an outspoken critic of book suppression.
• Meanwhile, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds looks really stoked about a new book ban in her state.
• Cat Power spent some time with the artwork of Marc Hundley.
• Twenty-four year-old pianist Jahari Stampey won the prestigious Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Competition.
• Cahoots NI, which brought the all-ages production Penguins to the Wex right before the COVID shutdown, is back in the US with The Vanishing Elephant.
• The Guardian looked at the irresistible allure of cuteness.
• Actor and multi Oscar nominee Piper Laurie passed at age 91.
• South Korean painter and leading minimalist Park Seo-bo also died at the age of 91.
• Legendary jazz pianist Carla Bley died at the age of 87.
• And hip hop producer the 45 King passed away at 62.

This week's reading was compiled with assistance from PR & Content Intern Honour Lackey.