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Weekend Reading: September 2 edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Sep 02, 2022

A performer in a long black dress stands, screaming, above bodies lying on the stage. Their left hand is outstretched, and their right hand is balled in a fist at their side.

Lia Rodrigues, Fúria, photo © Sammi Landweer.

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Mixed media artwork by Columbus artist Marcus Blackwell. A face with intense eyes and deep set features emerges in shades of blue and gray from a background of newsprint painted with abstract shapes in various shades of red, yellow, orange, white, and black.

Mixed media artwork by Marcus Blackwell on view at Mansfield Art Center, image courtesy of the artist (via Facebook)

Sam Green’s 32 Sounds and Carlos Motta: Your Monsters, Our Idols made Columbus Monthly’s highlights for the upcoming arts season.
Mansfield Art Center currently features a new show by Wex teaching artist Marcus Blackwell through October 16.
Maggie Smith, who’s moderating the 2022 Lambert Family Lecture with Saeed Jones later this month, is among the artists who received a Greater Columbus Arts Council Artists Elevated award.
GCAC is also offering a new round of Support for Professional Artists. Applications are due October 3.
It’s Greek Festival and Gallery Hop weekend in the Short North.
Sunday is Community Day at Franklin Park Conservatory.
Also Sunday, James Gaiters Quartet and DJ BeatBanguz will kick off the Sound Therapy concert series in MPACC BoxPark.
And Sunday night, Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon will take the stage at Axis.
Kent State creator John “Derf” Backderf discussed his graphic novel about the tragedy in a new podcast.
There was an interesting development at the Columbus Museum of Art this week.
Thursday, Columbus writer Hannah Stephenson will talk with Mothertrucker author Amy Butcher at Two Dollar Radio.
Also Thursday, Schumacher Gallery opens a show of works by the Ohio Plein Air Society.
And there’s a dedication ceremony for a new mural by Sarah Hout in Hilltop.
The next Franklinton Fridays will also include a mural dedication, this one created by the ARtsway Franklinton cohort led by artists Ashley Pierce and Dan Gerdeman.
Next weekend, you can check out the Columbus Podcast Awards at Lincoln Theatre.
Or head to Milo-Grogan for 934 Fest.
Or enjoy some Hot Times on Parsons Ave.

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Still from the live documentary 32 Sounds. A head-shaped microphone on a stand is in the foreground of a mostly empty, widow-lined space. Musician JD Samson stands alone, playing an electric guitar. She is wearing a yellow top, gray paints, and red sneakers. The image is refracted with light, creating a smaller image of Samson to the left of where she stands.

JD Samson in 32 Sounds, image courtesy of ArkType

Our upcoming presentation of Lia Rodrigues’ Furia made Dance Magazine’s list of the must-see performances in the months ahead.
And upcoming guest JD Samson, the composer for Sam Green’s 32 Sounds, made news by taking part in a Le Tigre reunion show.
The subject of a recent retrospective at the Wex, filmmaker Michael Schultz, is getting some long-overdue love.
The new film by Luca Guadagnino, currently garnering attention at the Venice Film fest, features a poster by painter Elizabeth Peyton.
Werner Herzog gave a new interview to IndieWire on the eve of his 80th birthday.
Here’s a preview of what’s playing at the Telluride Film Festival.
With the long weekend and some rainy weather ahead, here’s a list of overlooked treasures streaming on Netflix, including excellent stuff like Shirkers and Lingua Franca.
Here’s a look inside The Washington Post’s Hollywood development deal.
Speaking of, the newspaper shared an ode to historically underappreciated domestic arts.
The New Yorker caught up with multidisciplinary artist and “art problem” solver Nayland Blake.
Mark your calendars: art historian and former Wex curator Helen Molesworth is working on a podcast about the death of artist Ana Mendieta, to launch next month.
In this week’s NFT news, the Bored Ape Yacht Club has been ransacked.
And ICYMI, Eminem and Snoop Dogg performed at MTV’s Video Music Awards as their Bored Ape Yacht Club avatars.
The story of recently released Guantanamo Bay detainee and artist Khalid Qasim has called attention to a Trump-era policy that will prevent Qasim from taking the art he created while incarcerated with him.
There’s a new ticket program to make music festivals like Lollapalooza more accessible to the disabled.
Lastly, the art world is gnashing its teeth after an A.I.-generated painting won the top prize in a state fair competition.