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Weekend Reading: October 21 Edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Oct 21, 2022

Pam Grier from the chest up in front of a closet. She smirks and wears a yellow button-down shirt. Her hair is styled in an afro.

Pam Grier in Foxy Brown, image courtesy of Park Circus

Around Columbus

A circular image of dancer-choreographer Bebe Miller surrounded by a a black rectangular frame. She is a Black woman with white and gray dredlocks. She is wearing a blue textured top. She is standing a little left of center and staring at the camera with a slight smile. She is outside in nature, with trees in the background.

Bebe Miller in Blue Study, image courtesy of the filmmakers (via Facebook)

If you missed this week’s Seed Fund for Racial Justice Symposium, here’s a recap.
The Maurice Sendak exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art is officially open.
Ohio Art League’s 2022 Fall Juried Exhibition opens Saturday.
Sunday afternoon, Ohio State will have a dedication and celebration for the Wex’s new neighbor, the Timashev Family Music Building.
And Bexley High School will host a visit from author Temple Grandin.
Nick Offerman is coming to Otterbein Tuesday to support his latest book.
The Ohioana Book Awards are back in-person on Wednesday.
Choreographer and filmmaker Mitchell Rose revealed Blue Study, his latest collaboration with Bebe Miller.
Here’s a rundown on the current installation at Dream Clinic Project Space by Ian Hersko.
And a review of the environmentally-focused exhibition curated by Char Norman at the Cultural Arts Center.
Looking ahead to next Saturday, Verge FM is hanging up its headphones, and it’s marking the event with a Halloween dance party.

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Still from the animated film Apollo 10 1/2. A full body image of a young white boy inside the white, tunnel-like interior of a rocketship. He's wearing an orange jumpsuit and white safety helmet. He is floating upside down in the center of the frame, his arms extended toward the floor.

Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, image courtesy of Netflix

ICYMI, there’s a fantastic new interview with upcoming guest Pam Grier in the New York Times.
And Charlie Shackleton, who’ll join us for Unorthodocs in a few days, won the top prize for immersive art and XR at the London Film Festival.
Vulture caught up with the story of Richard Linklater’s new rotoscope-animated feature, Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood, being deemed unqualified for Best Animated Feature Oscar consideration back in July.
The Criterion Collection laid off nearly 20 percent of its staff.
Next week, Chinese-American actor Anna May Wong will grace new quarters going into circulation.
Tuesday brings the release of a posthumous memoir by Paul Newman.
The Atlantic covered two new books respectively that reflect on movement as a form of communication.
Maurice Hines called for Black tap dancers to get more credit for shaping the art form.
Robert Wilson spoke about the importance of a sense of humor in theater.
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker Prize.
Artnet critic Ben Davis talked about his new book on the relationship between high culture and on-the-ground politics.
Critic Philip Kennicott considered the recent spate of attacks on artworks such as Van Gogh’s Sunflowers by environmental activists.
And one of the Just Stop Oil protesters who threw soup at the Van Gogh offered her side of things.
The American Alliance of Museums is updating its DEAI standards for the first time in nearly 20 years.
Tufts University Professor Kelli Morgan spoke about establishing a new Anti-Racist Curatorial Practice program there.
Grand Central Station will soon debut new mosaics by Kiki Smith and Yayoi Kusama.
And a new light rail line in Los Angeles opened with public art by 14 artists including Kenturah Davis and Mickalene Thomas.
It’s newly sunny in Philadelphia.
A French program is connecting artists in need of studio space with abandoned buildings outside the city of Paris.
The galleries on New York’s Lower East Side are experiencing a crime wave.
A middle school mural painted by a Michigan high student was targeted for censorship. As you’ll see here, the offending work isn’t exactly Robert Mapplethorpe.
Rosh Hashanah starts Sunday evening. Shana Tovah from the Wex to all who observe.
Happy Diwali to all who celebrate Monday.
Lastly, legendary art critic Peter Schjeldahl passed away at the age of 80.

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