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Weekend reading: October 29 edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Oct 29, 2021

Sarah Oppenheimer, S-337473. 2017. Metal, glass, and existing architecture. Total dimensions variable. Installation view at the Wexner Center for the Arts, 2017. Photo: © Serge Hasenböhler.

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Art by Blenkm Highben under blacklight in The Vanderelli Room, courtesy of the artists and The Vanderelli Room.

Classic film fans, don’t miss the very last Cinevent, happening this weekend at the Renaissance hotel downtown.
All weekend, Streetlight Guild is hosting a free miniature Halloween village for all ages.
Saturday brings the opening of the 2021 Biennial Juried Exhibition to the Ohio Arts Council's Riffe Gallery. (It's also viewable virtually.)
HighBall Halloween is Saturday night at Express Live.
Another option at the same time: a blacklight dance party at The Vanderelli Room.
If you haven’t been following local artists like Raeghan Barron and Frank Lawson during the annual drawing challenge POCtober, here’s where to find the art and here’s a Halloween playlist to go with it.
Ohio-based and connected artists are invited to submit proposals by November 22 for the design of a women’s suffrage memorial to be erected at the Statehouse.
The call for 2D and 3D artworks for the next Accessible Expressions Ohio is also open, now through November 17.
And applications are being accepted for fall 2022 graduate studies in Ohio State’s Department of Art, where all MFAs essentially get a free ride.
Up for a road trip? Front Art has its 2022 preview exhibition open through January 2 at Cleveland’s Transformer Station, featuring works by artists such as Jacolby Satterwhite and past Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Sarah Oppenheimer. (BTW, Oppenheimer and her work at the Wex are featured in the November print edition of Artforum.)
You could also stick around for next Friday’s opening of the annual group show at 934 Gallery, cocurated by artists Sarah Achor and Kathryn Seyerle.

Around the globe

Ginger Snaps, image courtesy of Copperheart Entertainment

Here’s a Halloween weekend must: an oral history of the making of the “werewolf Thelma & Louise,” Ginger Snaps.
Here’s a look at recent horror films, like this year's Candyman remake, that are set in the art world.
Wednesday, there’s a free, online lunchtime lecture on the work of Anni Albers, part of a series on the role of place in the work of immigrant artists…
…And a virtual conversation in the evening with author and poet Clint Smith.
Comedian and filmmaker Bob Goldthwait shared some thoughts on “cancel culture.”
Hong Kong passed a restrictive new law censoring any film deemed as working against the national security interests of China.
Here’s a piece on Joseph Duveen, the legendary art dealer fictionalized in Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch.
Early-career journalists have until December 1 to apply for a New York Times fellowship focused on coverage of what it’s like to live with a disability in America.
There’s another fellowship opportunity through Sundance Institute for nonfiction filmmakers working on humanities-based projects whose livelihoods have been grossly affected by the pandemic.
And Bard Graduate Center has two current fellowships open for artists and researchers working in decorative arts and design history.
Russian-born software engineer Andrei Taraschuk is using bots to fill Twitter with art history.
OG shock rocker Alice Cooper revealed how Surrealism informed his stage persona.
Choreographer Boris Charmatz has been tapped to head the company formed by the late, great Pina Bausch.
The current outlook is bleak for dozens of art spaces in Mexico and Central America.
A new exhibition at Harvard Art Museums led The Washington Post’s Sebastian Smee to consider how museums can succesfully mount shows with a moral agenda.
The Whitney Museum announced a transfer of its research archive of Andy Warhol’s films to MoMA.
Meanwhile, The Met is dealing with a potential scandal involving looted artworks from Cambodia.
And nearly 250 looted artworks from India are being returned to the country, seized from the storage space of jailed gallery owner Subhash Kapoor.
The UK is considering taking a novel approach to preventing student loan default: limiting the number of students who can pursue lower-earning arts degrees .
Fort Worth, Texas will become home to a national Juneteenth museum.
Lee Lan Ray Gillian is the latest recipient of the Queer|Art Illumination Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists.
Ai Weiwei is the world’s most well-known climate refugee.
Lastly, groundbreaking political comic Mort Sahl passed away at 94.

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