Weekend Reading: October 6 Edition

Around Columbus

• ICYMI, the Columbus Metropolitan Club conversation between Wex Executive Director Gaëtane Verna, Columbus Museum of Art Executive Director Brooke Minto, and Dispatch Feature Editor Erica Thompson is streaming on YouTube.
• This weekend has the opening of Accra! The Rise of a Global Art Community at the Columbus Museum of Art.
• Sunday, Saeed Jones will speak at Columbus Metropolitan Library.
• St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, down the street from the Wex, put out a call for artwork for a series of exhibitions in the church’s sanctuary.
• Ohio Arts Council announced it’s hiring for a new position in finance and HR.
• Columbus Underground ran a profile on artist and designer Dillon Beck.
• The site also offered a review of the Riffe Gallery show Ohio Women to Watch 2023.
• While Matter wrote up the new Blockfort group show Chasing Ghosts and Shadows.
• And talked to Grace Ellis, whose novel Out of Darkness has been a target of book bans.
• Heads up: the John Oliver show happening at Mershon Auditorium has been moved to November 19.
• Tuesday through Friday at Dublin Arts Council, curator Anita Gopalaswamy will lead gallery tours of her exhibition Chapa Sari...The Story of Cotton.
• Wednesday brings the opening of a collaboration between Sherrie Gallery and Sarah Gormley Gallery. Artists include Adam Brouillette, Molly Burke, Nick Stull, and Kate Sweeney.
• Next weekend, this year’s Scrawl happens in Franklinton.
• It’s also Franklinton Friday, with a new show from Sara Allison at Rehab Tavern and the 2023 Image Ohio at ROY G BIV, among other attractions.
• Friday, 934 Gallery hosts a screening of the early Nicolas Cage oddity Vampire’s Kiss.
• Also next weekend, The Dark Market returns at a new venue win the Arena District.

Around the Globe

• The latest crop of MacArthur Fellows includes multidisciplinary artist María Magdalena and Climate Changing contributor Carolyn Lazard.
• Paul Pfeiffer discussed his multi-sensory works focusing on the relationship between performer and viewer.
• Shakeups are afoot at Artnet and Art Newspaper.
• Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban revealed his design for temporary housing; its first test run will be for victims of the recent earthquake in Morocco.
• The Conversation argued for why all science labs should have artists as part of the team.
• A Tesla-driving fan of the 45th president shot a Native activist in New Mexico at a protest against the re-erection of a controversial public statue.
• A new video game gives viewers the perspective of Claude Monet.
• Filmmaker Alice Deichmann has made a VR work to recreate her mother’s experience during the Holocaust.
• More than 50 years after it was lost, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is finally replacing the Oscar statuette donated to Howard University by Hattie McDaniel, the first Black woman to win one.
• The restored version of Timothy Carey’s wild cult film The World’s Greatest Sinner has hit the big screen in New York—nearly eight months after it screened at our own Cinema Revival.
• Extraordinary production designer Jack Fisk got the T Magazine treatment.
• Here’s a look at the double life of closeted classic film actor Rock Hudson.
• Artforum’s Amy Taubin shared a dispatch from the New York Film Festival.
• And here’s a report on what was on view at the London Film Festival.
• The New York Times shared a passionate plea to make TV and movies weird again.
• Here’s what Spinal Tap bassist Derek Smalls has on his mind.
• Choreographer Chelsie Hill is attracting students from around the world to participate in her dance program for wheelchair-using women.
• Jon Fosse won the Nobel Prize for literature.
• Author Sandra Newman talked challenges and motivation for her retelling of George Orwell’s 1984.
• Margaret Atwood reviewed a story written in her style by AI.
• Choreographer Rudy Perez died at the age of 93.