Weekend reading: October 23 edition

Around Ohio

• Columbus Alive and Columbus Underground have more info on this week’s virtual Unorthodocs fest.
• While the Columbus Dispatch caught up with filmmakers Charles Burnett and Kelly Gallagher about Cinetracts '20.
• The Dispatch also had good things to say about the fall exhibitions.
• If you’re flying soon, stop by the Gateway to the Arts gallery at John Glenn International Airport to see the artwork of Wex security staffer Sam Adebuga; it’s on view through November 30.
• The work of Columbus multimedia artist CG Ryan (seen at top of page) is featured through Sunday in the international digital art festival Patchlab.
• Artist and Returning Artist Guild engine Aimee Wissman has a powerful new exhibition on view at Fresh A.I.R. Gallery.
• Craftin’ Outlaws is hosting regional crafter pop-ups on Saturdays at the Columbus Museum of Art.
• Cleveland’s FRONT Triennial has an online monthly talk show, Present!, with a new episode Sunday featuring Asad Raza, Christian Faubel, and more.
• DJ Aloha and Wex house DJ Trueskills are doing a set of spooky tracks on vinyl at Studio 35 Sunday.
• Wednesday, Van Dale and Hydrone are the next artists to play an outdoor, socially distanced show to support local venue Ace of Cups.
• The Great Soup Sale of 2020 is on from Wild Goose Creative through November 2.
• Finally, plans are in place for Ohio to support performing arts groups through CARES Act funding.
• And who had blacksmithing on your pandemic survivalist skill Bingo card?

Around the globe

• Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, who joined us this week for a virtual watch party, has received a $75,000 Pew Fellowship.
• And Wex exhibiting artist Tomashi Jackson just scored a $25,000 grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
• Virtual Canzine 2020, an online fest of ‘zines and underground print, is happening all weekend.
• Wishing you could stop the world and get off? This weekend, you can take a trip to Planet Afropunk.
• The Brooklyn screening space Spectacle is doing an all-day horror marathon Sunday on Twitch.
• Tuesday, Creative Capital is hosting a free online screening of a new episode of Art21: Art in the 21st Century, focused on artists exploring ideas around borders.
• New York Magazine has collaborated with 48 artists including Shepard Fairey, Lorna Simpson, and Christine Sun Kim to create a series of “I Voted” stickers that will be included in the print edition of next week’s issue.
• Apple has secured streaming rights to the new Velvet Underground doc by Todd Haynes.
• There’s a teaser trailer for Underground Railroad, Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel for Amazon.
• Here’s a dive into the many pranks found in Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Borat sequel (not just the most infamous one).
• AFI Fest awarded its top prize this week to 76 Days, a doc about the initial coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China.
• Oh, Quibi, we hardly knew ye.
• An excerpt from Perfidia, the new book by Cinetracts ’20 contributor Sky Hopinka, has been released.
• And new drawings from David Byrne are viewable online via Pace Gallery.
• Dawoud Bey got the New York Times Style Magazine treatment.
• So did Barbara Kruger.
• Artnet compiled a list of “new innovators” disrupting the art world including Solange Knowles and the women behind Access Docs for Artists.
• ArtNews has a fresh primer on the great Jacob Lawrence.
• Rachel Whiteread has some words of encouragement for young artists.
• Now seems like a perfect time to catch up with The Guerrilla Girls.
• The Baltimore Museum of Art is seeing pushback on its plan to deaccession artworks to deal with COVID-related budget shortfalls.
• Here’s an op-ed on how museums can help school systems challenged by COVID—that is, if museums survive. 
• Here’s an update on the current state of dance film festivals (hint: you can spot many online).
• And here’s how the Washington, D.C.-based company Quicksilver is keeping isolated seniors connected through dance.
• Artists who painted on New York City’s boarded-up storefronts during the protests sparked by George Floyd’s murder are now working to save those efforts. 
• Someone went on a tear vandalizing artworks in Berlin in what some are calling an attack instigated by conspiracy theories.
• Indigenous art has a forgery problem.
• The Bessies will be presented virtually December 14.
• Lastly, new research suggests that STEM careers and art careers require the same kind of creative thinking.