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Weekend Reading: October 7 Edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Oct 07, 2022

A female member of the Ailey II dance company is alone on a darkened stage, wearing a short black dress with long, sequined sleeves. She is lunging low to her right with her left hand on the floor. Her right hand is raised up in the air, holding an illuminated white orb.

Ailey II, image courtesy of CAPA

Around Ohio

Still from the 1977 Japanese film House. The disembodied head of a young girl with long black hair is at the center. She looks upward, confused and scared. The background is filled with illustrated images of blue faces with wide, frightened eyes.

House, image courtesy of Criterion

Sunday afternoon, Streetlight Guild hosts the seasonally appropriate workshop Exploring How We Know About Monsters.
Ohio Citizens for the Arts launched the Ohio Museum Trail, connecting museums around the state (including the Wex).
Accessible Expressions Ohio has a call for work by artists with disabilities for a virtual exhibition that will also tour the state.
Brian Harnetty released his new album, Words and Silences. Harnetty will perform at the Wex November 9.
Anyone looking for a title for their masters thesis? Let McSweeney’s and Ohio rock legends Guided by Voices help.
Here’s a rundown of the new Columbus Museum of Art show of photography by Kali.
Tuesday, Ailey II brings its moves to the Riffe Center.
Wednesday, Wex Learning & Public Practice Director Dionne Custer Edwards will be part of a morning symposium on Ohio State’s Seed Fund for Racial Justice.
Pumpkins Aglow kicks off Wednesday night at Franklin Park Conservatory.
Thursday, Columbus Metropolitan Library hosts its fall book sale.
Also Thursday, Past, Present, Future opens at King Arts Complex, presenting work from the institution’s permanent collection.
And 934 Gallery presents a fundraiser screening of the cult horror fave House.
Starting Thursday, the light and projection mapping fest BLINK is happening in Cincinnati.
Franklinton Friday is next weekend, with new shows including Gaye Reissland at The Vanderelli Room and Raíces/Roots at Wild Goose Creative.
Also in Franklinton next weekend is the latest edition of live painting event Scrawl and The Cult of Curiosities Oddities Market.
And Saturday, It Looks Like It’s Open is having a one-night-only exhibition of works by Sharon Anderson, Jenny Bell, Anne Spurgeon, and Mark Spurgeon.

Around the globe

Still from the documentary Is It Black Enough for You? Actor Harry Belafonte sits in a living room wearing a gray sweatshirt. He looks to his right, smiling.

Harry Belafonte in Is It Black Enough for You?, image courtesy of Netflix

Joe Biden reinstated the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, which was established by Ronald Reagan and ceased all activities under Biden’s predecessor. The president also officially proclaimed October Arts and Humanities Month.
This week brings the Supreme Court’s review of a case involving Andy Warhol and a Lynn Goldsmith photograph of Prince that could spell big trouble for anyone involved in “fair use.”
In other SCOTUS news, The Onion filed a brief with the court in defense of parody.
Legendary Mad magazine contributor Sergio Aragones discussed his many years of work.
John Waters announced a return to filmmaking.
The trailer dropped for Is That Black Enough for You?, the new Netflix doc directed by critic and historian Elvis Mitchell.
The Hollywood advocacy group Time’s Up is living up to its name, but not in a good way.
A California measure would make the arts a core subject in K-12 schools.
The New York Times took a deep dive into cultural appropriation.
John Oliver turned his attention to museums and illegal antiquities.
The Hermitage Museum is looking for a new contemporary curator.
The National Gallery of Art discovered it has one less Vermeer.
The Art Institute of Chicago has been accused of erasing the queer identity of Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
Here’s one writer’s thoughtful take on why cultural institutions shouldn’t be so quick to abandon the COVID-dictated practice of livestreaming.
This essay considers what role artists and arts workers should take in a post-capitalist society.
Critic Hettie Judah spoke about her new book on the challenges of parenting in the art world.
Researchers found that art in the workplace might make a remote worker more likely to return.
There was a fire on Easter Island.
Convicted art world scammer Anna Sorokin got out of jail.
Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in literature.
Country great Loretta Lynn passed away. She was 90.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Charles Fuller died this week at the age of 83.