Weekend reading: September 17 edition

Around Columbus

• To get things started, we just want to make sure you know that thanks to Smithsonian Museum Day and American Electric Power Foundation, our brand new exhibition Jacqueline Humphries: jhΩ1:) is free to view all weekend.
• Saturday at 6 PM, the New York Latino Film Festival virtually premieres A Shelter for Edith, a short doc by Columbus filmmakers Elisa Stone and Matthew Leahy about undocumented immigrant Edith Espinal’s years-long sanctuary in a Clintonville Mennonite church.
• The South Asian Theater Festival is streaming all weekend via Theater Roundtable and Epic Actors’ Workshop.
• German Village Maker’s Market is back on Sunday with handmade delights by vendors including Good Girl Silver and Linnea Campbell Ceramics.
• Tuesday’s a full night: Dr. Mark Lomax II and Scott Woods will be at the Garden Theater for a free performance of In Search Of A City, a multidisciplinary vision of what Columbus could be…
• …Transit Arts is hosting an open mic outdoors at Central Community House…
• …And Neil deGrasse Tyson makes a long-delayed visit to the Palace to go over what movies get right and wrong about science.
• Columbus’s first selfie museum is now open not far from the Wex.
• Wexner Medical Center’s Dr. Iahn Gonsenhauser is among the doctors cited in this piece about returning to entertainment events safely.
• Flashing forward to next Saturday morning, the US Botanic Garden is hosting an online lecture by Columbus-based foraging celeb Alexis Nikole Nelson.
• And Columbus Museum of Art will host another Craftin’ Outlaws pop-up with vendors including Wex Visitor Experience Manager/Dog Sweater Money maker Joanna Hammer.

Around the globe

• Wednesday through September 30, the Atlantic Festival is free to stream. Speakers include filmmaker Ken Burns, The Sopranos creator David Chase, actors Rosario Dawson and Ann Dowd, and designer Christian Siriano.
• Get your fill of avant grade fashion with this photo gallery of every red carpet look from The Met Gala.
• There’s a new trailer for the Wex-supported doc The Village Detective from filmmaker Bill Morrison.
• Jane Campion, Penelope Cruz, and Maggie Gyllenhaal were among the award winners at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
• Here’s an argument for why film festivals should maintain a hybrid model.
• It feels good to check in with Jim Jarmusch.
• Steve McQueen talked to Variety about Uprising, his docuseries companion to the extraordinary Small Axe, now streaming on Amazon Prime.
• Liv Ullman and Jessica Chastain connected over playing the same character in different versions of Scenes from a Marriage.
• Apparently the film sound looping industry is a mysterious, cutthroat world.
• Colson Whitehead talked to Terry Gross about his new book, Harlem Shuffle.
• Gayl Jones, an author championed by no less than Toni Morrison, disappeared from public life in 1998 but has a new novel hitting bookstores.
• Mikhail Baryshnikov discussed his shift toward dance photography.
• The Met will deaccession $1 million worth of prints and photographs to help pay its bills.
• The Baltimore Museum of Art has received a $150,000 grant to reimagine the museum through the lens of equity and diversity.
• The new Time 100 is out and artists to make the cut include Mark Bradford and Barbara Kruger.
• Hito Steyerl turned down an honor from the German government, citing an inconsistent response to the pandemic that unfairly penalized education and the arts. 
• The Washington Post profiled Miranda Massie, Founder and Director of New York City’s The Climate Museum.
• The Danish art collective Superflex has created an epic ode to the undersea creature the siphonophore and its role in removing carbon from the atmosphere.
• Mary Reid Kelly and Carmelita Tropicana are among the artists who spoke to ARTnews about what can come from collaboration.
• Scientists have used AI and data from the careers of over 2000 artists, including Jackson Pollock and Frida Kahlo, to identify the key conditions for a creative “hot streak.”
• Lastly, one-of-a-kind comedian Norm MacDonald succumbed to cancer at the age of 61.