Weekend Reading: January 6 Edition

Around Columbus

• The Dispatch’s Nancy Gilson had a lovely conversation with our new Executive Director, Gaëtane Verna.
• Our upcoming film series Resting Places made this list of local happenings to prioritize in January.
• The Columbus Film Critics Association announced its awards for 2022, presenting Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin with Best Picture. (Disclosure: this writer is a voting member.)
• Opportunities this week include a call for mural proposals from Hilltop Arts Collective through January 20, an open call through January 15 for vendors for the Craftin’ Outlaws Spring Marketplace, and Ohio Art League’s call for submissions for its 2023 Spring Juried Exhibition, juried by Dani and Sheilah ReStack. That closes January 13.
• Wild Goose Creative hosts a virtual lunchtime event on digital communications for artists Monday afternoon.
• Thursday, Wex Learning & Public Practice Director Dionne Custer Edwards will join Hanif Abdurraqib in a celebration of Toni Morrison at Bexley Library.
• Columbus Monthly ran a nice piece on how film great Vincente Minelli was influenced by his Ohio childhood, featuring input from our own Chris Stults.
• Matter checked in with Beverly Whiteside at the start of her Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson residency.
• Franklinton Friday rolls around next weekend with the return of The Amazing Cat Show (featuring works by Wex marketing staffer Adin Sadic) at 400 West Rich, a group show of high school artists curated by Grant Gilsdorf at The Vanderelli Room, and the group show Q-ties at Wild Goose.
• Friday also brings the opening of We Go Together Like, a collaborative show between visual artists and writers, at Blockfort.
• And mark your calendars: Sheila E. is coming to Columbus in May.

Around the globe

• Works entering the public domain this year include The Jazz Singer, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise.
• Tsione Wolde-Michael has been named executive director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
• The Washington Post focused on the artworks of enslavers and confederates still featured in the halls of the US Capitol.
• Gary Cabana, the man behind the stabbing of two employees at MoMA last year, has been extradited to New York and is facing attempted murder charges.
• Hyperallergic revisited the wildest art stories of the past year.
• Artnet ran down the notable art and fashion collaborations of the past year.
• Comic artist Sara Andersen shared the horror of having her work co-opted by both AI and the alt-right.
• Wired made the case for storytelling as a meaningful tool for climate change awareness.
• Art 21 fixed on the fascinating process of Kevin Beasley.
• A real-world nightmare for art handlers took place in Boulder, Colorado this week.
• A statue of Henrietta Lacks is replacing a Robert E. Lee monument in Virginia. Lacks was also the inspiration for Immortal Uterus, one of Jasmine Murrell’s contributions to our summer ’22 show.
• Shirin Neshat wrote about the uprisings in Iran.
• John Waters spoke with Jack Pierson about his life in art for Harper’s Bazaar.
• Steve McQueen’s first major work in four years will make its debut in Rotterdam later this month.
• This Marilyn Minter project may be worth a visit to New York in the spring.
• Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, the stars of Franco Zefferelli’s 1968 screen version of Romeo and Juliet—who were underage at the time of filming—are suing Paramount Pictures for sexual abuse.
• The critics of The Reveal shared their picks for the year’s best films, including EO and Tár.
• And Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott chimed in with opinions on who deserves Oscar nominations this year.
• Iggy Pop spoke to The Times ahead of the release of his new album, Every Loser.
• Vivienne Westwood, the mother of punk fashion, died last week at 81.
• Avant garde cinema icon Michael Snow died at the age of 94.
• And MOCA LA architect Arata Isozaki passed away at 91.