Weekend reading: April 22 edition

Around Ohio

• This Sunday afternoon, German Village Makers Market returns and 400 Square is having a Warehouse Sale.
• Sunday also brings a unique live painting event to The Vanderelli Room: exhibiting artist Lynn Hetherington Becker will demo her remarkable body art technique at 2 PM.
• Dr. Mark Lomax, II and his trio just released a Charles Mingus tribute album. Yes, please.
• If you blinked, you missed your opportunity to pick up a POCtober Sketchbook from local artists Raeghan Buchanan and Frank Lawson. It sold out in three days, but there’s a promise of more copies coming.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired a 19th century French abolitionist sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.
• Thursday will be hopping. Happenings include a talk with Climate Changing artist Baseera Khan at Columbus Museum of Art.
• And the 2022 Film Columbus Summit on Film and Entertainment scheduled as part of the first Cinema Columbus Festival, a collaboration between all local independent cinemas including the Wex that kicks off Wednesday.
• Also Thursday, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library will host French author and cartoonist Quentin Zuitton, cocreator of the graphic novel Call Me Nathan.
• Next weekend brings the 2022 OhioDance Festival to Ohio State.
• The Ohioana Book Festival is also next weekend, featuring guests such as Wil Haygood and Donte Woods-Spikes.

Around the globe

• T Magazine’s annual Culture Issue dropped with treats like a feature on 24 hours in the creative life of artists such as Marilyn Minter and Cauleen Smith and an essay on what it really means to make art.
• New studies on implicit bias indicate that people actually harbor an intense aversion to creativity.
• In other research, a study spread across five states found that public art reduces traffic accidents.
• Jonathas de Andrade, a past Film/Video Studio residency artist from Brazil, talked about his work in the Venice Biennale.
• Can a film heal generational trauma? This writer says that’s the effect of the amazing new film Everything Everywhere All at Once.
• IndieWire has some film-positive ideas for how Netflix can respond to declining viewership.
• Attention is finally being paid to the Indian heritage of classic screen star Merle Oberon.
• A group of curators in Arkansas has set its sites on creating the next Coachella.
• Wednesday morning, you can log into a virtual discussion from the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins examining diversity, equity, and anti-racism in the performing arts industry.
• Brooklyn theater space Super Secret Arts has a plan to become the Netflix of theater.
• Here’s a profile of the stressed out gig workers behind the NFT craze.
• David Cronenberg has debuted a perfectly on-brand addition to the crypto art market.
• Here’s a current list of the best art meme accounts on Instagram.
• The banning of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis in a Chicago school district has inspired a new nonfiction graphic novel by grad student Jarrett Dapier.
• Actor Robert Morse, who had a late-career win with Mad Men, died at the age of 90.
• And French film star Michel Bouquet passed away at the age of 96.