Weekend Reading: September 9 Edition

Around Columbus

• Locally-based, internationally renowned drag icon Nina West has an exciting new screen credit.
• Hanif Abdurraqib asked his Twitter followers for their favorite cover songs and made a playlist of the best responses.
• ICYMI, the Confluence Cast posted an interview with Candice Watkins, the powerhouse organizer behind a number of local festivals.
• There’s a new BQIC Black Power Book Club Tuesday night.
• The Franklinton Arts District now has its own audio tours.
• Thursday brings the beginning of a three-day workshop from the Barnett Center in which members of the arts org La Pocha Nostra will lead a “Living Altars” workshop centered on rituals of remembrance and bereavement.
• There’s also a new show at CCAD’s Beeler Gallery next weekend: 1,000 Miles Per Hour.
• And Drawing the Line: Comic Artists of Columbus is opening Thursday at the McConnell Arts Center.
• Next Friday night, MPACC Gallery continues its solo show of works by Ekundayo Igeleke.
• And next Saturday, Sarah Gormley Gallery opens in its new space downtown with a group show featuring all 28 artists it represents, including Daniel Rona, Nick Stull, and Kate Sweeney.

Around the globe

• News we can confirm: Arts presenters are having a challenging time with masking.
• In news to ponder this week: is the avant-garde still avant grade?
• And this week’s burning question: Where do we sign up for “lesbian dance theory”?
• Fashion brand Supreme unveiled an epic new collaboration with Pope.L.
• David Shrigley, a favorite of Wexner Center Store patrons, has brought his distinctive design sense to a hugely popular line of tech gear.
• Things are looking up at the fire-damaged National Museum of Brazil.
• Here’s a status report on museum industry efforts to diversify.
• Here’s a consideration how COVID may have permanently changed the approach to art gallery receptions.
• This week brought the debut of the official White House portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama.
• Here’s what pioneering artist Charles Atlas has been up to lately.
• NPR turned a spotlight on the dramatic work of Nigerian photographer Adeolu Osibodu.
• From Vincent van Gogh to Robert Mapplethorpe, there’s a long tradition of artists trading work for medical care.
• Here’s a telling study about the difference in perceived value between works by men and women artists.
• And here’s a fascinating look at the art forgery trade.
• There’s a bit of controversy at the Toronto International Film Festival (no spitting involved).
• Former journalist and Film at Lincoln Center leader Eugene Hernandez will be the next director of the Sundance Film Fest.
• Iranian film expert Jamsheed Akrami wrote a tribute to jailed filmmaker Jafar Panahi.
• The shortlist for the Booker prize was released.
• Following the passing of Queen Elizabeth, ARTnews shared a peek at the art collection stewarded by the British royal family.
• Barbara Ehrenreich, who went undercover to illuminate the plight of low-wage workers for Nickeled and Dimed, died at the age of 81. The writer contributed an essay for the booklet for our retrospective Julia Reichert: 50 Years in Film.
• Author Peter Straub passed away at 79.
• Eco art movement godfather Newton Harrison died at the age of 89.
• Musician and artist Wes Freed also passed this week. He was 58.