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Weekend reading: February 26 edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Feb 25, 2021

An animated scene of a man in a room full of red abstract shapes in the air, seen in the foreground with his back to the viewer, facing a man in the background who's standing in the doorway in silhouette, red light filling the space behind him

Around Ohio

Jazz artist Wynton Marsalis seen in three-quarter profile from the chest up, playing the trumpet, against a solid light gray background

Wynton Marsalis; image courtesy of Jazz at Lincoln Center

  • Check out the stories about Cinema Revival: A Festival of Film Restoration from Alive, the Dispatch, and Columbus Underground.
  • The Lantern gave some love to All Day Blackness.
  • Here's an interview with the organizer of that event, Reg Zehner, from their alma mater, CCAD.
  • Malt Adult is back Saturday night with its 19th edition of independent animated shorts. The free virtual program includes a piece by Columbus animator Kaycee Nwakudu (seen at top of page). 
  • Also Saturday night, Lost Weekend Records is streaming a Kinks cover set from Muswell Villebillies for the shop’s 18th anniversary.
  • Blockfort opens the exhibition Lasting Legacies on Sunday for Women’s History Month. Artists include Mandi Caskey, Clara Jenkins, and Liz Morrison.
  • Also Sunday, Urban Strings Columbus will stream a program of works by African American composers with special guests including Bobby Floyd & Trio.
  • Artist and Ohio State professor Alison Crocetta, whose work was recently seen in The Box, joins Courtney Hunt from Ohio State’s Fine Arts Library and Caitlin McGurk from the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum for the next conversation in the “Creative Pathfinders” series. That’s Wednesday afternoon.
  • Columbus Moving Image Art Review has launched the call for entries for its spring program.
  • Ohio State’s Insights wrote about how VR and gaming are being used to enhance empathy in doctors working with dementia patients.
  • Columbus architecture firm Moody Nolan won the 2021 Architecture Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects, its highest honor.
  • The New York Times finally caught up with the death of Aminah Robinson.
  • There’s a new way to support King Arts Complex from Wolf’s Ridge Brewing.
  • Local treasure Miles Curtiss, aka Marvin the Robot, talked about losing all his instruments to theft and the wildly successful crowdfunding campaign to help him replace them.
  • Here’s something to plan ahead for: On Monday, March 8, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will perform at the Southern Theatre for a virtual audience and the show is free.
  • And another thing: the Cincinnati Art Museum will recreate a historic 1970s touring exhibition with 40-plus paintings by artists including Nancy Graves and Sam Gilliam. The show opens March 12.

 

Around the globe

Sacha Baron Cohen as Abbie Hoffman and Jeremy Strong as Jerry Rubin walk down through a courthouse lobby as reporters behind stanchions on either side of them take pictures in a scene from the film The Trial of the Chicago 7

Sacha Baron Cohen and Jeremy Strong in The Trial of the Chicago 7; image courtesy of Netflix

  • Researchers at the Berlin Institute of Technology have found that museums are currently among the safest indoor public spaces to visit.
  • MoMA has a free online course available Saturday on "Reimagining Blackness in Architecture."
  • Films.Dance, a global dance film series that’s rolling out 15 works created during the pandemic, continues Monday at noon.
  • The Golden Globes are Sunday. Here’s how Covid is affecting the ceremony and some predictions for the night (hint: Sacha Baron Cohen is looking good).
  • Meanwhile, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, organizers of the Globes, is currently under fire. 
  • Through March 5, Cultural Solidarity Fund is accepting applications from arts and cultural workers for emergency micro-grants of $500.
  • The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and the Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation are offering a Zoom webinar with writer T. Shawn Taylor next Saturday morning.
  • Check out a sampling of short films in the Asian Art Museum’s current program: After Hope: Videos of Resistance.
  • ABC is launching the first news magazine focused on Black life for a major network.
  • Feeling the pain of cinema lovers, TimeOut put together a list of the 50 most beautiful movie theaters in the world. (Chicago’s Music Box is the closest to Columbus.)
  • French film legend Gerard Depardieu has been charged with rape.
  • The teaser for the upcoming season of The Handmaid’s Tale is out.
  • With all the public monuments that came down in 2020, you’d think the Robocop statue would be able to find a home.
  • The American Alliance of Museums is pushing to get government funding for art institutions still struggling with pandemic losses. Understandable, considering that currently the arts and recreation sector in New York is experiencing 66% unemployment.
  • Movie studios and theater owners have also asked Joe Biden for help after a rough year.
  • But at least the president has already done a solid for aficionados of modern architecture.
  • Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen launched a new podcast.
  • Daft Punk is no more.
  • Clemson University doctoral student A.D. Carson has gone viral with the hip-hop album he produced for his dissertation.
  • Former Indianapolis Museum of Art CEO Maxwell Anderson unleashed on the institution’s recently ousted president, Charles Venable.
  • Dance artist Kimberly Bartosik spoke up about the need to reimagine funding models for dance.
  • In an ironic response to the death of Rush Limbaugh, meme artist Tommy Marcus raised over $1 million for Planned Parenthood.
  • The BBC shared the story of artists who developed camouflage and other visual illusions as weapons of war during WWII.
  • There’s been a message hiding in Edvard Munch’s The Scream.
  • Here’s an absorbing profile of artist Nicole Eisenman and the work she’s been making during the pandemic.
  • Creative Capital has named Christine Kuan its new president and executive director.
  • Beat movement legend and City Lights bookstore proprietor Lawrence Ferlinghetti passed away at the age of 101.
  • As did Rajie Cook, the sculptor best known for creating the pictograms that ID restrooms, public services, and more.

 

Top of page: Red Room by Kaycee Nwakudu, image courtesy of the artist and Malt Adult