Weekend Reading: April 14 Edition

Around Columbus

• All day Saturday, Seventh Son Brewing is celebrating its 10th anniversary with Beer Me Fest; the event includes DJs and live music by the band Connections.
• Sunday afternoon, Ohio History Connection will host an event about the legacy of General William T. Sherman that’ll feature a performance by Dineh’ Tah Dancers and food from NAICCO Cuisine.
• Maggie Smith will share from her new book at the Drexel Monday night. Smith spoke to Columbus Monthly about the work for the April issue.
• Local band snarls is taking off this week to record its new album in Norway.
• The Columbus Arts Festival announced the 200-plus artist lineup for the 2023 edition.
• It seems like Brian Harnetty is everywhere these days; here he is in a segment this week on the WBUR-FM show Here and Now.
• Urban Arts Space has a signup sheet open for poets to share their work at this month’s Artist Commune event.
• Looking ahead to next weekend, Saturday is Record Store Day 2023.
• Saturday also brings a Newspaper Comics: Printing and Papercraft Day to The Billy.

Around the globe

• Jacolby Satterwhite, whose work was seen in our 2020 show Climate Changing, is one of two artists tapped to create major new works for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s facade.
• Time’s 100 Most Influential People list is out and it includes artists El Anatsui, Simone Leigh, and Wolfgang Tillmans.
• Yes, there are reasons some artworks shouldn’t be touched, as this story about a man who wound up trapped in a public artwork made of over 1000 steel spheres proves.
• Santa Fe has lost its Center for Contemporary Arts.
• Members of the disabled community opened up to The New York Times about feeling left behind as more arts venues drop a pandemic-predicated focus on livestreaming.
• Irish illustrator Pan Cooke spoke to NPR about why she’s taken on the subject of US police brutality.
• The FBI just released a new app that helps identify and locate stolen art. But some who’ve checked out the app are unimpressed.
• Comedian Hannah Gadsby is curating a show focused on the complicated legacy of Pablo Picasso for the Brooklyn Museum.
• The Washington Post announced the winners of its Peeps diorama contest.
• On the eve of the opening of his new film Peter Pan & Wendy, A Ghost Story director David Lowery made a case for family-friendly films to do better.
• In auction block news, it came out this week that in February someone paid over $50,000 for VHS copies of the original Rocky trilogy.
• Applications are being accepted through May 21 for the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship, open to emerging film editors from historically underrepresented communities.
• A member of a Florida parents group has successfully lobbied to have a graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary removed from schools.
• Fashion designer Mary Quant, considered the force behind the miniskirt as a feminine staple, died at the age of 93.
• And the comics world suffered a blow with the loss of Al Jaffee at the age of 99. The legendary Mad Magazine cartoonist officially retired only three years ago.