Weekend reading: April 15 edition

Around Ohio

• Former Wex exhibition designer Nick Stull is featured in this story about the 83 Gallery reunion show at Blockfort.
• And an interview for another April show to check out: Daniel Ferlan at Sharon Weiss Gallery.
• The Toledo Museum of Art will deaccession three impressionist paintings from its collection.
• Yacht rockers, rejoice! Christopher Cross is part of this year’s Picnic with the Pops lineup.
• There’s a jazz lounge coming to the Short North from the creators of Chapman’s Eat Market.
• Poet Marcus Jackson wrote about his embrace of street photography.
• Next Friday, 934 Gallery invites you to get your hands dirty at its all age-friendly Earth Day event.
• There’s also a livestream Friday night of the 50th Columbus Moving Image Art Review, with over 15 shorts by filmmakers such as Gracie Denbow and Anjali Tewani.
• Get out your  JNCOs and jelly sandals; Ohio History Connection is having a ‘90s-themed History After Hours event next Saturday.
• And don’t forget to vote Wex for Best Museum and Best Place for Last-Minute Gifts in Columbus Monthly’s Best of Columbus poll. Polls close April 22.

Around the globe

• Congratulations to friends Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert for earning a Peabody Award nom for their latest doc, 9to5: The Story of a Movement.
• And more congrats to Wil Haygood—his Sammy Davis, Jr. biography will be turned into a Netflix series by director Lee Daniels.
• Filmmaker Magazine spoke to another friend of the Wex: animator and past visiting filmmaker Jodie Mack.
• Prompted by the Ukrainian struggle, Electronic Arts Intermix is streaming Barbara Hammer’s 2001 film My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities for free through May 31 as part of a program celebrating the 50th anniversary of the filmmaker resource.
• One of the Tomashi Jackson works commissioned by the Wex for a 2020 show in our galleries is in a stunning new group exhibition.
• Climate Changing artist Abraham Cruzvillegas was profiled in the Los Angeles Times.
• Anyone looking forward to seeing what comes out of Carlos Motta’s Artist Residency Award-supported project might want to check out Tuesday’s virtual panel on the movement to address racist and offensive place names.
• Amy Sherald donated $1 million to university grant programs in Breonna Taylor’s name.
• Here are the four British artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize.
• Here’s how Ukrainian artists like musician John Object and illustrator Zhenya Oliinyk are responding to Russia’s war on their country.
• As the Venice Biennale prepares to kick off next week, ArtReview asks, what’s the point?
• Here’s an update on Simone Leigh’s work as the first Black woman to represent the US at the international art event.
• And here’s a preview of the immersive installation Alfredo Jaar is creating for the Whitney Biennial.
• A converted factory in Lowell, Massachusetts is being looked at as a test case for how to keep artist studio space affordable.
• WNYC’s 9/11 coverage and Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) are among the recordings chosen for preservation this year by the Library of Congress.
• The BBC may have found the world’s smallest movie theater, and we love it.
• Is the hype around “spoilers” in pop culture a capitalist conspiracy?
• Comedian, voice actor, and podcaster Gilbert Gottfried died this week at the age of 67.
• It's been a long week, so we’ll leave you with some soothing, art-adjacent ASMR videos.
• And also with happy holiday wishes to all who are celebrating Easter or Passover this weekend.