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Weekend reading: September 25 edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Sep 25, 2020

An aboriginal boy leans his head outside the window of a moving car

Around Columbus

The chin of a black man with a microphone is seen in a small frame surrounded by black with the subtitle, "In '95, led a prison uprising in the video for 'They Don't Care About Us"

From Cameron Granger's This Must Be the Place, courtesy of the artist

  • Saturday, Cinetracts ’20 filmmaker Cameron Granger will be discussing his work with Hanif Abdurraqib via Zoom, hosted by Columbus Museum of Art.
  • Fashion Week Columbus concludes Saturday with an online runway show.
  • Also on Saturday, comedian Hannibal Buress will address the state of the world at South Drive-In. 
  • If These Walls Could Talk, a documentary about the Newport Music Hall, makes its debut online Wednesday.
  • Then on Thursday, you can fill your screen with art by Frank Lawson and Roger Kent Groswiler during a virtual opening hosted by Streetlight Guild.
  • Cartoon Crossroads Columbus officially begins Thursday, but the Discord channel is active now.
  • There’s an effort underway to restore the Short North’s Smoky Brown mural.
  • Congratulations to Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar for adding an Emmy to the honors bestowed on American Factory.
  • Hammond Harkins Gallery has a new interactive art installation by Andrea Myers in which you can slip your own art into an outdoor fiber work made up of repurposed jean pockets.

 

Around the globe

Filmmaker Jennifer Reeder against a dark red background

Jennifer Reeder, image courtesy of the filmmaker

  • Set your DVR: POV is airing the Australian director Maya Newell's doc In My Blood it Runs (pictured at top of page) on WOSU-TV Sunday night. 
  • The National Book Festival is online this weekend with speakers including Colson Whitehead and Amy Tan.
  • And video of the last show on Prince’s 1987 Sign o’ the Times tour is now on YouTube to celebrate the reissue of the album.
  • The Modern Art Notes podcast has a new interview with 2020–21 Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Torkwase Dyson.
  • The Smithsonian has acquired its first sound installation—by artist Christine Sun Kim, who’ll be talking with Wex director Johanna Burton October 2.
  • Feminist film icon/former Wex staffer Jennifer Reeder is now director of the College of the Arts at Illinois University.
  • Steven Soderbergh’s amazing Cinemax series The Knick is being picked up for a third season, guided by Barry Jenkins and André Holland.
  • With the release of the Janelle Monae-led film Antebellum comes an examination of how hard it is to make a good film about slavery in America.
  • There’s a trailer for City So Real, director Steve James’ new series for National Geographic.
  • Sight & Sound opened its archives for an interview with cinematographer Lónce-Henry Burel on working with Robert Bresson.
  • A question to consider as the arts sector continues to await relief: What happens to cities when the arts go dark?
  • Another: What will the future of theater look like?
  • The New York Times highlights pandemic impact on the arts through what would normally be happening this weekend in New York City.
  • Slate argued that time is running out to save live music venues affected by the pandemic.
  • The pandemic has also brought a resurgence in existential thinking.
  • PBS has launched a new season of Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, spending time with artists such as Christian Marclay and Rafael Lozano Hemmer.
  • The New York gallery Canada has launched a fundraiser to help Florida felons pay fines so they can vote.
  • A major retrospective of Philip Guston’s work has been postponed to 2024 as curators reconsider his late-career paintings with KKK imagery.
  • Thanks to a cash infusion, the Artist Relief fund will continue offering $5000 grants through the end of the year.
  • The National Book Awards nominees have been announced.
  • The Root 100 is out and includes art A-listers like Kehinde Wiley and Kimberly Drew.
  • The Time 100 List is also out; Julie Mehretu, Patrice Cullers, and Tourmaline made the cut.
  • Beyond unleashing a national wave of grief, the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg may be bad news for intellectual property law.
  • In a new podcast, curator Maria Brito makes the case for art as an entry point for education.
  • The Ford Foundation will award $60 million in grants to minority arts groups.
  • There’s a new app that takes you into the conceptual world of Sol LeWitt.
  • We’ll leave you with an excerpt from a new book about how the CIA and FBI used artists to spread Cold War propaganda.

 

Top of page: In My Blood it Runs, image courtesy of POV

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