Weekend reading: September 4 edition

Around Columbus

• Hop from Home is this Saturday, but you can also Gallery Hop in person with masks and proper distancing if you’d like to check out what’s new from the Summer Spray mural project.
• Hyperrealist painter Christopher Burk has a show of haunting new work with birds’ eye views of flooded landscapes at Brandt-Roberts Galleries.
• Artist and activist Donte Woods-Spikes is having an online talk and screening of his documentary Donte & Day’Mariah for Otterbein College on Tuesday.
• CCAD President's lecture series continues Thursday with muralist Ryan “Yanoe” Sarfati.
• On Tuesday, PBS's Frontline debuts Growing Up Poor in America, a special on childhood poverty focused on families in Ohio, with behind the scenes work by local photographer (and frequent Wex freelancer) Brooke LaValley.
• Charles Laughton’s 1955 masterpiece Night of the Hunter is screening next Friday in Greenlawn Cemetery.
• BalletMet Columbus will be forgoing The Nutcracker this year.
• Columbus-based author Deva Rashed-Boone talks about her new anthology of stories from Black Midwestern writers, Black in the Middle, which comes out on Tuesday.
• Open air tents have been erected to keep live arts programming and education going at Ohio State.
• There’s a new documentary available to stream about Ohio State’s marching band, by filmmaker and OSU communications staffer Joe Camoriano.
• And ICYMI, it’s been a painful week for the Wex. 

Around the globe

• Filmmaker Deborah Stratman's O'er the Land is available to view through September 8. It was completed with help from the Wex Film/Video Studio.
• The final work in the online video series Tony Cokes: Of Lies and Liars, which pairs political statements with pop music, debuts Sunday on Instagram.
• MOCA LA has commissioned nine artists to create limited edition face masks, including Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie, Pipilotti Rist and Yoko Ono (seen at top of page).
• For Labor Day, a handful of arts workers share how they’re coping with the economic impact of coronavirus.
• Here’s an interview with Nicole R. Fleetwood, author of the new book on prison art Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.
• Art Basel Miami is the latest major art event to call off 2020 on account of coronavirus.
• Journalist Elizabeth Méndez Berry and Latinx House founder Mónica Ramirez believe Latinos can win the current culture war.
• Turner Prize-winning artist Tai Shani has called for a radical rethinking of what art institutions can do.
• Fiber artist Sonya Clark has won the 2020 Rappaport Prize.
• The Center for Craft is accepting proposals through October 1 for grants of up to $20,000 for craft research.
• Google has updated its image search engine to make it easier to license photos.
• Here’s a look inside the brains of jazz improvisers.
• Choreographer Camille A. Brown has started an online school for social dance.
• Remember that time Merce Cunningham collaborated with a computer?
• A report on ticket buyers to arts events has found that during coronavirus, audiences have been skewing younger.
• Rosalie Varda talks about her mother, Agnés Varda, in connection with the arrival of a new Criterion Collection boxed set of the filmmaker's work.
• Vulture caught up with Miranda July and shared footage of the artist in quarantine shot by her husband, filmmaker Mike Mills.
• John Waters has designed a fabulous poster for this year’s New York Film Festival.
• I’m Thinking of Ending Things, the new film by Charlie Kaufman, is now streaming on Netflix.
• Lastly, Chadwick Boseman forever!