Weekend reading: April 16 edition

Around Ohio

• We’re excited to share that the Ohio Museums Association recognized the Pages 2019–20 Anthology (cover pictured at top of page) in its 2020 Visual Communications Awards. Congrats and well-deserved to Pages program founder Dionne Custer Edwards, Senior Designer Kendall Markley, and Publications Editor Ryan Shafer.
• This weekend brings the Columbus International Film & Animation Festival. The program of features and shorts that includes a Saturday night drive-in screening of the film Drunk Bus.
• Sunday, 400 West Rich is hosting Spring Arts Fest. Repping for multiple disciplines will be artists such as Richard Duarte Brown, Rachel Wiley, and Jon Sherman.
• Wednesday night, you can Zoom into an author’s talk with suspense writer Cate Holahan via Thurber House.
• Art in Bloom is happening April 22–24 at the Columbus Museum of Art, which includes a visit from original Queer Eye stylist Carson Kressley.
• Here’s the latest on No Place Gallery’s new space.
• Here’s an update on the summer festival season ahead.
• The Ohio Theatre is getting an update of its own.
• Here’s a check-in on one of Columbus’s most fascinating pieces of residential architecture.
• The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library has received a treasure trove of materials connected to cartoonist Ho Che Anderson’s graphic novel biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art has rehung its contemporary galleries to refocus attention on work by women and artists of color.
• On Thursday, the Art & Equity Summit hosted by Cincinnati’s Disruption Now will offer online seminars and networking opportunities to support Black and Brown artists and collectors.
• Singer Liz Woolley is the latest act featured in CAPA’s ApART Together Concert Series. Bloodthirsty Virgins are on tap for Thursday.
• Looking ahead to next Friday, Art Access Gallery is having a late afternoon meet-and-greet with artists Todd Camp, Rod Hayslip, and Karen Rumora. 

Around the globe

• Through this weekend, Prismatic Ground streams an impressive slate of experimental documentaries including work by Ohio natives Bill and Turner Ross and Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Bill Morrison, in addition to the Wex-supported Lynne Sachs-Barbara Hammer collaboration A Month of Single Frames.
• Monday, Creative Capital has a Zoom workshop to offer guidance to artists on creating social change while building community.
• Tuesday, cinematographer and filmmaker Kirsten Johnson will host a virtual roundtable about filmmaking, food, and grief.
• The Tribeca Film Festival will be the first film fest in North America to happen in person since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Prep for next weekend’s Oscars telecast by streaming nominated doc short A Concerto is a Conversation and a chat between codirector/subject Kris Bowers and Ava DuVernay.
• While it may be a golden age for documentaries, we can do without the cheesy reenactments. 
• Artist Kevin B. Lee has made a video essay about Minari, the Atlanta spa shootings, and how the media depicts Asian Americans.
• Let’s all think positive thoughts about the possible future of the Arclight and Pacific Theaters, including Los Angeles’ historic Cinerama Theatre.
• The Armory Show has a new virtual exhibition featuring Gordon Matta-Clark and Hank Willis Thomas, among others. The Pandemic is a Portal is on view through April 25.
• Arts writers have until May 19 to apply for a 2021 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation.
• Here’s the latest on the dents left in the museums field by the pandemic.
• What do you think a COVID-19 memorial should look like? Here’s one opinion.
• Dance educator Carla Trim-Vamben spoke about bringing urban dance practices into the university system.
• A new project will produce covers of 10 musical works by Black female artists, such as “Midnight Train to Georgia,” in sign language.
• Director and playwright Kareem Fahmy has created an open-source spreadsheet to match BIPOC directors with venues and playwrights.
• Here’s a story we can relate to after the BTS work involved in extending Climate Changing: the Speed Museum’s four-month turnaround of a Breonna Taylor show offers a new, responsive model for art institutions.
• Russian feminist artist Yulia Tsvetkova posted body-positive drawings on the internet. Now she’s facing charges of disseminating pornography.
• The state of Mississippi has returned nearly 500 sets of remains and funerary items that were stolen from the Chickasaw Nation.
• Here’s a novel idea: arts and music can help students catch up after a year of virtual learning
• Introducing the unlikely museum worker stars of TikTok..
• Roxane Gay opened up about her recent jump into art collecting.
• Sculptor Rachel Whiteread has taken her work in a radical new direction.
• Ai Weiwei wrote about being a cat person.
• And portrait photographer June Newton passed away at the age of 97.