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Weekend Reading: September 6 Edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Sep 06, 2024

A triple exposure of a bare-chested Black man with a white mohawk hairstyle as he covers his ears, then his eyes, then his mouth.

Top of page: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Untitled (Hear No Evil See No Evil Speak No Evil), 1985. Courtesy of Autograph London

Around Ohio

Two artists paint a mural on an exterior wall of a movie theater.

Artist Jenny Roesel Ustick and assistant work on a Julia Reichert-themed mural outside The Neon in Dayton, courtesy of The Neon

Dayton cinema The Neon has a new mural honoring the work of Julia Reichert.
This weekend sees the opening of two new shows at Blockfort: Surviving, curated by participating artist Emily Strange, and a solo from Elijah Kleman.
David Butler talked up his weeklong show at 700 Bryden that opens this Saturday, centered on unacknowledged privilege and sitting with discomfort.
Rhapsody & Refrain continues at Streetlight Guild through September 15. Poets lined up for this week include Sara Abou Rashed on Sunday, Maggie Smith on Monday, and Amy Turn Sharp on Tuesday.
To start the month, major arts player Angela Gardner Meleca launched a new podcast, ARTS Redefined, and she’s already covered some foundational topics including art accessibility and measuring arts impact.
Downtown gallerist Sarah Gormley has a memoir coming out this week.
Greater Columbus Arts Council opened applications for the 2025 Aminah Robinson Fellowship.
Katy Smith, the recently appointed editor of Columbus Monthly, introduced herself to readers with a new column.
Librarian Amanda Jones, who became infamous in 2022 for speaking out against book bans, will speak more Monday at Bexley Public Library in an event that will also be livestreamed.
Tuesday, the Riffe Gallery continues its virtual speaker series with a talk by Emily Sullivan Smith.
Thursday, Capital University’s Schumacher Gallery is opening Masterworks by Ohio Artists, presented in partnership with Keny Galleries.
Thursday also brings another opening reception to Urban Arts Space, for the show You Can’t Take it With You…
Looking at next weekend, 934 Fest is happening Friday and Saturday, and Columbus Underground offered a preview with a profile of scheduled performer Monroe Jordan.
Friday, Art Access Gallery in Bexley will have a reception for a show of landscapes by Michael McEwan and Perry Brown.
It’s also Franklinton Friday on the 13th, with shows including a display of works by theartofmann at Secret Studio, as well as the new event Scrawl Crawl.
And next Saturday, Columbus Garden School hosts the photography workshop Intro to Solar Cyanotype.

Around the Globe

Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Tranquility of Communion, along with the Ming Smith shows coming to central Ohio this month—including our own, Wind Chime—were deemed shoutout-worthy in ARTnews’ fall exhibitions preview.
And Ming Smith exhibitions at the Wex, Columbus Museum of Art, and The Gund at Kenyon College were also included in a New York Times piece about shows featuring artists who consider ways of living in the world.
The writer of that Times piece, Siddartha Mitter, was one of eight critics to receive a $50,000 grant from the Rabkin Foundation.
Hyperallergic reported on the performance practice of Tanya Lukin Linklater, which was on display in the Wex galleries last month.
Hyperallergic also came up with its own quirky awards for booths at the 2024 Armory Show.
Diving with a Purpose, the nonprofit that played a role in our spring 2023 exhibition Meditation Ocean, was profiled in The Guardian.
MoMA President Emerita Agnes Gund and artists Jeffrey Gibson and Christine Sun Kim are among the art world luminaries lining up to show support for Vice President and candidate Kamala Harris.
Chinese artist Gao Zhen was arrested near Beijing for working with his brother Gao Qiang to create a series of public sculptures satirizing Mao Zedong.
An 18 year-old in Austria was shot and killed after opening fire at a Munich museum devoted to the history of the Nazi party.
The paramilitary group Sudanese Rapid Support Forces has reportedly looted the National Museum of Sudan in Khartoum.
The trust created to disperse settlements for the Boy Scouts of America is auctioning off over 300 artworks to pay abuse survivors, including five paintings by Norman Rockwell.
Here’s a piece about the emerging science of neuroarchitecture and studies examining the public health implications of building design.
And here’s more on the ripple effects of Florida governor Ron DeSantis zeroing out arts funding in the state budget.
Art world fraud Anna “Delvey” Sorokin is lined up to join Dancing with the Stars.
E-flux’s virtual staff picks program has a free stream this month of Dan Graham’s Rock My Religion, which reflects on the relationship between religion and rock through the music of Patti Smith.
Ahead of the film’s sequel hitting theaters this weekend, the production designer for the original Beetlejuice, Bo Welch, discussed the sculptures attributed to the character played by Catherine O’Hara and the related creative direction from Tim Burton.
An upcoming documentary makes a compelling case that Abraham Lincoln was gay.
Isabella Rossellini had a lovely chat with Variety about working in film and her latest, the thriller Conclave.
The great Carol Kane did the same with The New York Times around the arrival of her new movie, Between the Temples.
The Black List is expanding from unproduced screenplays to unsung novels.
A new Red Hot album, focused on trans awareness, will feature the first new track in 14 years from the legendary Sade. For anyone not familiar with Red Hot, here’s the organization’s gorgeous first compilation.
Gird yourselves: Fyre Festival II is in the works.
Brazilian bossa nova legend Sérgio Mendes died at 83.
British pop artist David Boshier, one of the creatives behind the cover for David Bowie’s Let’s Dance, passed away at 87.
And Jackie Winsor, whose labor-intensive sculptural works made appearances in MoMA and the Whitney Biennial, passed away at the age of 82.