Weekend reading: October 28 Edition

Around Columbus

• ICYMI, there’s a really fun new interview with upcoming guest Pam Grier in the Dispatch. (BTW, there’s also a great playlist inspired by her visit from Soundclash Entertainment.)
• The Dispatch also shared videos from its June Storytellers project event, with thoughts from Sara Abou Rashed and Felicia DeRosa.
• Brian Harnetty, who’ll perform at the Wex November 9, was asked five questions.
• Streetlight Guild brought back its Miniature Halloween Village for the weekend.
• There was some news of note from the Columbus Museum of Art.
• Wednesday, Sarah Gormley Gallery opens a new show by Mychaelyn Michalec.
• Black Gesso, a new partnership between Maroon Arts Group, Creative Control Fest, and Artfluential, presents a talk by Dr. Fahamu Pecou next Friday.
• Also next Friday, Oyo Dance Company debuts the holiday show One Light 2022.
• And 934 Gallery opens a group show of artists in the Milo Arts community.
• Next Saturday is Gallery Hop. New-to-view shows include Tiffany Lawson at Sean Christopher Gallery.

Around the globe

• Writer and horror aficionado Charlie Cox shared his top 10 scary movies with Artforum.
• Criterion shared a crop of short essays on six great cinematic vampires.
• John Carpenter spoke to Vulture about his film scoring work.
• Satirical artist David Shrigley talked about his new book, Get Your Shit Together.
• BOMB dropped a new interview with Barbara Kruger.
• Maya Lin is designing a performance space for Bard College.
• A panel of museum directors took on the topic of climate protesters defacing classic artworks.
• The US Global Change Research Program put out a call for work for Art X Climate: A project of National Climate Assessment.
• Ever felt like abstract art is hard to get a handle on? Take comfort in this story about a museum in Germany that recently discovered it’s been displaying a Piet Mondrian painting upside down for over 75 years.
• What are the artists who’ve collaborated with Ye saying about his embrace of antisemitism? Apparently, not much.
• More than 400 works by European Jewish composers silenced by Nazi persecution are being newly published.
• Just in time for early holiday shopping, here’s a story about how merch has become an instrumental part of music artists’ success.
• Here’s a look at the current state of shadow puppetry.
• The Warhol Foundation Arts Writer Grant program is publishing a new pamphlet series of critical art writing.
• Starting today, you’ll be able to read the works of George Orwell on Substack.
• Britain’s National Health Service is conducting a study to see whether “social prescribing” activities such as the arts to young people can help improve mental health.
• Science’s Dance Your Ph.D competition, which challenges scientists to translate their work into movement, is now accepting entries.
• Controversial rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis died this week at 87.
• Beloved actor Leslie Jordan also passed, at the age of 67.
• And French painter Pierre Soulages died this week. He was 102.