Weekend Reading: September 22 Edition

Around Columbus

• We’re extra excited to share the trailer for Family White Elephants, the first film from artist Mary Jo Bole. It was created with support from our Film/Video Studio and a Wex-specific fellowship from Ohio Humanities.
• Sunday afternoon, Lindsay Gallery debuts a new show from painter Terry Joshua.
• Fashion Week Columbus kicks off Sunday.
• You can now throw your hat in to be considered for a spot at the 2024 Columbus Arts Festival.
• Ohio State Associate Professor and Sharing Circles cocurator Carmen Winant has a timely new show at the Minneapolis Museum of Art.
• Local author Thao Thai is getting attention for new novel, Banyan Moon.
• Tuesday, Urban Arts Space opens the new group exhibition Iran: Deciphering Violence and Resistance.
• Next weekend’s a biggie. First, there’s the wealth of activities connected to Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, including screenings and talks at the Wex. You can pregame with this Dispatch piece featuring Ohio State’s Jared Gardner. Or this piece on the Billy Ireland’s comics collection.
• There’s also a double header of Wex-sponsored events closing out the season at Secret Studio: the poetry-focused Word Church on Friday and Scrawl with Bloodthirsty Virgins on Saturday.
• Friday brings the art, music, and shopping event Clintonville Jamboree.
• Saturday, Chalkfest is happening at the Art and College Prepatory Academy.
• Also, Saturday, there’s the Festival for Good in Grandview.
• Last but not least, Saturday night, Wex Store Manager Matt Reber and the rest of New Bomb Turks take the stage at Rumba Cafe.
   

Around the Globe

• Arts Midwest is now accepting applications for its National Leaders of Color Fellowship.
• After a tumultuous few years and a long search process, the Indianapolis Museum of Art has hired Belinda Tate as its new director.
• Art Basel hired Hayley Romer for the new position of chief growth officer.
• There’s an unusual conflict afoot between Xaviera Simmons and the Queens Museum of Art.
• Police are guarding the German museum Zeche Zollern due to right-wing backlash to a policy created for the exhibition This is Colonial.
• Journalist and author Suki Kim has won the 2023–24 Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism.
• Performance artist Alex Mari and artist Nick Thornburg are the recipients of the inaugural XENO Prize from the Franklin Furnace Archive.
• This week brings a painful reminder of why kids need supervision in art institutions.
• Miranda July had some fun for Art21.
• A near death experience has led to reflection on the part of Marina Abramović about how to preserve her performance work.
• Here’s a rundown on how the art world influenced New York Fashion Week.
• In the “it was worth a shot” realm, Danish artist Jens Haaning was ordered to pay back Denmark’s Kunsten Museum of Modern Art after he took a hefty commission and delivered empty frames.
• The New York Times shared the unique legacy of painter Ernie Barnes.
• David Salle is one of the few artists who are embracing AI.
• Color us shocked about the latest news on NFTs.
• The Guardian directed readers to interesting Instagram accounts from artists such as Jarvis Cocker and Rachel Whitehead.
• Seven works by Egon Schiele that were looted by the Nazis are being returned from museum collections to the living descendants of the original owners.
• Fresh Air got into how the Nazis used jazz as a propaganda tool.
• Philadelphia has a new performance installation, Rhythm Bath, that’s designed specifically to support an arts experience for the neurodivergent.
• A Washington State judge blocked an effort by book banners to use a ballot initiative to try to close Columbia County’s only library.
• But overall, book bannings in the US are up by a third in the past year.
• There’s a new, previously unknown short story out from the late Truman Capote.
• A dozen creatives shared how living spaces from films and TV shows such as Rosemary’s Baby and She’s Gotta Have It made them want to live in New York.
• The Jeffrey Wright-led satire American Fiction led the prizewinners at the Toronto International Film Festival.
• In a new Vogue cover story, it comes out that Kate Winslet went above and beyond to support the directorial debut of cinematographer Ellen Kuras.
• Agnieszka Holland is facing backlash for The Green Border, her new film about Poland’s treatment of Syrian refugees.
• Actor Chris Evans gets points for an embarrassing admission regarding his work on Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer.
• Photographer Erwin Olaf passed away at age 64.
• Former bodybuilder and artist model Lisa Lyon died at the age of 70.