Weekend Reading: April 19 Edition

Around Ohio

• Cinema Columbus kicks off Wednesday, and we’re thrilled to participate by presenting the world premiere of the first film by local treasure Mary Jo Bole.
• Children’s book author Keturah Bobo, who’ll be at the Ohioana Book Festival this weekend, discussed her work with Matter.
• Sunday, poet Zach Hannah hosts a meditation and poetry event featuring 50 writers in Goodale Park.
• Also Sunday, We Amplify Voices offers a sound synthesis workshop led by Moxy Martinez.
• Monday brings more poetry from Cindy Juyoung Ok and Michael Leong to Streetlight Guild.
• Cincinnati’s Wave Pool issued a call for artists to create temporary outdoor installations for a parking lot event in August.
• 934 Gallery is looking for muralists for this year’s 934 Fest.
• Local retailer Homage got a boost from Taylor Swift.
• Columbus film critic Hope Madden participated in a new podcast about religion in sci-fi.
• Noise maker Mike Shiflet released two new albums.
• Wednesday night, Columbus Metropolitan Library hosts a virtual poetry event with Darren Demaree, Charlene Fix, Manuel Iris, and Scott Woods.
• Thursday, OSU Faculty Club has a talk with exhibiting artist Cody Heichel.
• Next Friday, Art Possible Ohio presents a free screening of the documentary Telephone in partnership with Ohio Dance.
• Friday also brings a book release and queer poetry showcase featuring Su Flatt, Ani Jones, and Misha Ponnuraju to Two Dollar Radio.
• Next weekend, the Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo (SPACE) happens Saturday and Sunday at Ohio Expo Center.
• Saturday evening, the Riffe Center will host the Jebby Awards ceremony for excellence in local theater in 2023.
• A new comics reading series, Distractor, kicks off Saturday at It Looks Like It’s Open.
• Lastly, Blueprint has a release show for his new album Saturday at Ace of Cups.

Around the Globe

• ARTnews got in the first coverage of Kapwani Kiwanga’s installation in the Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, curated by our own Gaëtane Verna.
• Venice Biennale Curator Adriano Pedrosa talked about curatorial vision and approaching the Biennale strategically.
• Israeli artist Ruth Patir has refused to allow the country’s Biennale pavilion to open until there’s a ceasefire in Gaza.
• In the biennale’s Ukraine Pavilion, artists such as Pablo Makov are satirizing stereotypical portrayals of refugees.
• Check out the kaleidoscopic works of Jeffrey Gibson, the first Native American artist to represent the United States with a solo show at the Venice Biennale.
• London’s Tate Modern announced a new initiative to bolster representation of Indigenous artists within its collection.
• Former writing professor Wendy Brenner wrote about her love for her new job as an art framer for Oxford American.
• Museum insiders offered fresh context for an art handler’s decision to add one of their own works to a show in Munich’s Pinakothek Der Moderne, which resulted in the artist’s firing.
• Robert Wolterstorff, executive director and CEO of Greenwich’s Bruce Museum, is stepping down from the role after five years.
• This year’s LensCulture Portrait Award winners explore generational impact, queer love and family—Hyperallergic rounds up the recipients up here.
• Ayana Ross, the winner of the Second Bennett Prize, reflected on how the award has affected her career.
• Mohammed Salem’s image of a Palestinian woman in mourning won the World Press Photo of the Year.
• A new museum in Kansas City, The Rabbit hOle, has made immersive installations out of favorite children’s books.
• Twenty-four artists have contributed to Loewe’s illumination group show, Loewe Lamps.
• Thomas Heatherwick’s 150-foot copper sculpture The Vessel is set to reopen at Hudson Yards, three years after its closure.
• The New York art community was shocked when works and ephemera from the pioneering late artist Mary Beth Edelson were discarded on the street by her son.
• Meanwhile, the UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has granted protection status to the home of late artist Ron Gittins.
• Detroit rapper Gmac Cash has gone viral with his critique of the design of a new city sign.
• For a bit of art history, Artnet has this piece about the popularity of the color purple, beloved by Prince and princes alike.
• Christie’s will sell Norman Lear’s art collection. Filled with the works of Abstract Expressionists and 20th century modern art, the collection’s highlight is David Hockney’s A Lawn Being Sprinkled.
• The Sundance Film Festival may be looking for a new home outside of Park City, Utah.
• Speaking of Sundance, screenwriters with narrative works-in-progress have until May 16 to apply for a Sundance Institute fellowship to develop the script.
• Harper’s dove into the worsening climate for writers in Hollywood.
• Actress Jennifer Lawrence and activist Malala Yousafzai have teamed up to produce a documentary about the ongoing abuse and repression of women in Afghanistan.
• It looks like Quentin Tarantino’s final film project won’t be The Movie Critic, after all.
• The Guardian chronicled the 30-year search for the eponymous bus from the queer cult classic Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
• Amid concerns about shaky profits for movie theater chains, Marketplace proposed that cinemas aren’t going anywhere.
• New tools to restore film using AI are producing results, in films like James Cameron’s True Lies, that are being called unnatural.
• Sources who’ve seen Francis Ford Coppola’s epic passion project Megalopolis say the expensive, experimental work is facing a tough road to wide distribution.
• Musician Kim Gordon, producer Rick Rubin, choreographer Bill T. Jones, and multitalented performer Murray Hill are among the creatives who offered advice on how to get past procrastination for T Magazine.
• Urban Bush Women founder Jawole Willa Jo Zollar will receive the Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for lifetime achievement.
• Dance activism organization Whistle has launched an online tool to help dancers fight dysfunctional work cultures.
• Here’s a rundown on the addition of breakdancing to the Olympics.
• H/t to Dance Magazine for sharing that a January reimagining of anti-fascist works by the late choreographer Anna Sokolow is now streaming for free via the Library of Congress.
• Also newly streaming, from the National Endowment of the Arts comes the 2024 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert, featuring honorees Gary Bartz, Terence Blanchard, and Amina Claudine Myers.
• Faith Ringgold, the artist, activist and innovator whose work spanned seven decades, has passed away at 93. Here’s a conversation the artist had in Columbus in 2010 with another legend: Aminah Robinson.
• Beloved comic book creator and historian Trina Robbins passed away last week.
• Ushio Amagatsu, the Japanese dancer that brought worldwide attention to a form of dance theater called Butoh, has passed at 74.
• Marian Zazeela, an artist who wielded light and music to stun the senses, has passed away at 83.

• Multifaceted artist Marian Zazeela passed away at 83.