Weekend reading: September 10 edition

Around Ohio

• Our friends at 934 Gallery are hosting 934 Fest Friday and Saturday, featuring performers such as Golomb and Jayswifa along with mural making, live comedy, and an exhibition by Danielle Deley and Allison Baker.
• The inaugural Hasan Fest is happening at the Columbus Performing Arts Center on Saturday, to honor the memory of multi-instrumentalist Hasan Adbur-Razzaq, who passed away in February.
• The passing last week of reggae great Lee Scratch Perry has prompted DJ rekloos to do a tribute set on Radio614 starting at noon Sunday.
• Sunday, Terrence Simien & the Zydeco Experience perform for Sunday on the Scioto in Dublin.
• Sunday also brings the opening of a new solo show from painter Joey Monsoon at Lindsay Gallery.
• Thurber House has virtual writing workshops for adults starting Monday, September 13.
• The musical Best Summer Ever is the latest free stream from ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus, available for five days starting Wednesday.
• Has COVID scaled back your gallery visits? Thursday, Streetlight Guild has a Drive-Thru Art Market with works by Richard Duarte Brown, Roger Kent Groswiler, Mark Lomax, Tiffani Smith, and many others available for sale.
• Check out this Gahanna car wash that’s been transformed into an open space for art and gardening.
• Dana Kletchka, assistant professor in Ohio State’s department of arts administration, education, and policy sat down with David Staley to discuss whether museums are for objects or people. 
• Secret Studio put out an open call for artists to create holiday ornaments for a group show opening in late November.
• The Toledo Museum of Art has received $2.5 million in gifts dedicated to staff enrichment.
• And congratulations to multidisciplinary artist and fine human Cameron Granger for being named Artist in Residence at Denison University for the fall semester.

Around the globe

• To mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Artnet podcasted with Monica Bravo, Jeff Konigsberg and other artists who were participating in residencies in the World Trade Center in September of 2001.
• Tuesday night, Creative Capital is hosting a paid workshop with money management tips for artists.
• Here’s a fresh list of artist grant opportunities and other resources for September.
• Did you miss Soda Jerk’s amazing experimental doc Terror Nullius when they visited Unorthodocs with it in 2018? You can stream the film for free through September 20.
• It feels like a good week to listen to Isabella Rossellini and Jenny Slate talk about duck sex.
• And for a check-in with Gilbert & George.
• Climate Changing contributor Pope.L answered questions about his work teaching at the University of Chicago.
• The Dallas Art Fair will donate $50,000 to Planned Parenthood.
• San Francisco is getting its own Institute of Contemporary Art.
• You’ll need to head to New York City’s subway to see the latest work by artist Nick Cave. 
• Above ground, the New York City Police Department is trying to shut down street dancer Kunami Kusajima, despite the fact that she’s literally become a face of resilience there during COVID.
• Kara Walker has designed the poster for the 2021 New York Film Festival.
• The founders of La Barraca de Cine have been traveling across Spain to bring outdoor cinema to the country’s remote villages.
• The fabulous Jacqueline Stewart, chief curator of the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (also host of TCM’s Silent Sunday Night), spoke about her priorities in the job.
• Francis Ford Coppola has made his dream project, Megalopolis, a priority, putting his own money on the line to start production.
• Movement artist Miguel Gutierrez has a new podcast covering the ethical entanglements between art and money.”
• British theater director Dan Hutton believes there’s potential for theaters to become as central to communities’ lives as public parks.
• The 2021 Dance Magazine Award honorees have been announced; they include Robert Battle of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and Akram Khan. 
• Congressman Ted Lieu wants to revive the Depression-era Federal Writers’ Project.
• Here’s this week’s story on the link between the arts and the common good.
• The French New Wave’s pinnacle of cool, actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, passed away at 88.
• Michael K. Williams, the actor behind iconic television crime drama character Omar on HBO’s The Wire, left us way too soon. He was 54. Fresh Air shared excerpts from two interviews and costar and friend Wendell Pierce shared his memories of the man on Twitter.

Last but not least, a happy Rosh Hashanah week and Yom Kippur to all who observe from all of us at the Wex!