Weekend reading: September 24 edition

Around Ohio

• Saturday's forecast calls for clouds and chill, so grab a blanket Saturday night for an appropriately atmospheric outdoor screening of Jim Henson’s Labyrinth at Highbanks Metro Park.
• Sunday, CAPA invites you to roam around inside the Southern Theatre to celebrate the venue's 125th birthday.
• Wex Executive Director Johanna Burton recently participated in a discussion about the impact of the pandemic on arts and culture. You can check it out here.
• ICYMI, today Burton also joined our Chief Curator Kelly Kivland and Director of Learning & Public Practice Dionne Custer Edwards for a chat with WOSU’s Christopher Purdy.
• CATCO has a teen monologue study class starting up on Tuesday.
• Veteran local arts writer Margaret Quamme has been named one of nine judges for the 2021 Kirkus Prize
• Bidding just opened for a benefit auction for Cleveland’s Front International. Michelle Grabner and Jacolby Satterwhite are a couple of the star contributors.
• Our Cartoon Crossroads Columbus partners at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum are now accepting applications for the 2022 Lucy Caswell Research Award.
• Here’s a guide to how you can support indie booksellers as a book shortage looms over the industry. (Not so much of a problem for art books because they tend to have a longer production process, according to Wex Store Manager Matt Reber).
• Ohio State Associate Professor and past Wex collaborator Richard Fletcher had some thoughts he decided to share with Ohio legislators this week about proposed bills to limit what teachers can discuss in classrooms.
• Looking ahead to next Friday, painter Michael Bush (whose work is seen above) and fiber artist Garrison Latimer will debut their two-man show at Sarah Gormley Gallery.

Around the globe

• Monday at noon, Black Dance Stories will launch an Instagram Live series spotlighting emerging dance artists.
• Monday night, John Lurie will be virtually discussing his new memoir.
• Tuesday afternoon, Katie Paterson, whose moon phase disco ball dazzled in our 2017 exhibition Gray Matters, will talk about her work online.
• Maya Cade talked up Black Film Archive, her new streaming resource covering films made from 1915 to 1979.
• Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at Wes Anderson’s music video for a Jarvis Cocker song written for Anderson’s new film, The French Dispatch.
• Here’s the story of the Alan Rudolph-directed film adaptation of Gary Larsen’s The Far Side that never was.
• Fashion really has changed: John Waters is on the cover of the new Town & Country. 
• Roxane Gay ruminated on a new work by painter Calida Rawles and what art can teach us about trauma and healing.
• Kerry James Marshall will create new stained glass windows for Washington DC’s National Cathedral to replace the current windows, which feature depictions of slavery-era traitors Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
• The Guardian caught up with the incredible Betye Saar, who’s still making work at 95.
• L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, the posthumously completed work by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, has been unveiled in Paris.
• A new paint has been developed that’s so white, it can cool surfaces and could eliminate the need for air conditioning.
• Kristy Edmunds, who spoke to our own Johanna Burton for Always Subject to Change, has been named the new director of MASS MoCA.
• Seena Hodges has become the first person of color to lead the board of the Walker Art Center and part of the organization’s first-ever, all-female slate of officers.
• The Art of Education University reshared this resource from early COVID days for talking to kids about their art and we can get behind all of it.
• Bloomberg weighed in on the current state of the NFT business.
• Are tweets the future of theater criticism?
• Multi-hyphenate Demi Adejuyigbe released what will be his last video celebrating the Earth Wind & Fire classic “September.”
• Cancer survivor Tracy Emin shared her plans to make her new, 30,000 square-foot studio a museum after she dies.
• We leave you with the news that pioneering Melvin Van Peebles, creator of groundbreaking films like Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song and Watermelon Man, passed away at the age of 89. Author and upcoming Wex guest Wil Haygood wrote about how Van Peebles created a DIY template for the Black filmmakers that followed him.