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Weekend reading: April 23 edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Apr 23, 2021

Columbus artist Michael Hodges sits at a table outside drawing

Columbus artist Michael Hodges at the 2017 Columbus Arts Festival; photo: Julia K. Ellwell

 

 

Around Columbus

A colorful digital illustration of Ma'Khia Bryant by Julia Barrett

Ma'Khia Bryant by Julia Barrett; image courtesy of the artist

  • We’re very sad to share the news that Columbus artist Michael Hodges passed away earlier this month. A GoFundMe has been launched by a close friend in the artist community to cover costs for a memorial.
  • Sunday afternoon, Pint Size Protesters has organized the family-friendly demonstration #JusticeforMa’Khia.
  • German Village Makers Market on Sunday features the work of Red Giraffe Designs, Canton’s Letterpress Jess, and dozens of others.
  • It’s Ohioana Book Festival weekend.
  • Tuesday night, Bexley Public Library has a virtual talk with author Susan Orlean.
  • Voting is now open for the mural proposals for this year’s Summer Jam West. Mary Barczak, Sarah Hout and Lisa McLymont, and Ariel Peguero are among this year’s competitors.
  • Radicant Bodies, a juried show of works by Ohio State Art & Technology students, is now open online.
  • There’s a new season of the podcast Columbus Can’t Wait.
  • Columbus Monthly caught up with the backstory on CD102’s rebirth as CD92.9.
  • Food insecurity activist Roshelle Pate has been named the Columbus Foundation’s 2021 Spirit of Columbus honoree.
  • Nina West is teaming up with Queer Eye’s Bobby Berk to create a children’s variety show.
  • Congratulations to the team at Loose Films for securing a competition slot at this year’s Tribeca Film Fest with their first feature, Poser.
  • And to DonCee, the first recipient of the Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Fellowship. He has work featured in a new Robinson show at Hammond Harkins Gallery.
  • Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil will have an online convo about the role of the artist in society Thursday afternoon.
  • CATCO’s virtual production of Studs Terkel’s Working debuts Thursday.
  • And looking ahead to next Friday, Malt Adult is back with its 20th program of independent animated shorts.

 

Around the globe

Cover art for John Waters' 7-inch single, with photo of Waters standing next to the gravestone of Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cover art for John Waters' seven-inch single "Prayer to Pasolini," courtesy of Sub Pop

  • Saturday night, Carnegie Hall hosts a free online program from Kronos Quartet. 
  • Monday, MacArthur Fellows Janine Antoni and John Rich will lead a virtual discussion about how to better understand and to connect to our bodies through multiple perspectives.
  • Daata Fair is on view through May 9, presenting digital works by artists including Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley.
  • Through May 20, you can check out The World Seen and Dreamt, an online fest of films from Espírito Santo in southeastern Brazil.
  • John Waters celebrated his 75th birthday this week by releasing an audio mash note to Pier Paolo Pasolini and appearing on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast.
  • Nomadland took another top prize—this time at the Independent Spirit Awards.
  • Here’s a preview of how Questlove and Oscars producer Jesse Collins are changing up the music at this year’s awards ceremony.
  • And here’s a story about how public arts funding is partly responsible for the career of Oscar-nominated actor Daniel Kaluuya.
  • Paul Schrader sat down with longtime friend Richard Brody, film critic for The New Yorker, to talk about making movies in the age of Netflix.
  • Filmmaker Xiaowen Zhu’s short documentary about the silk industry, Oriental Silk, is streaming for free through May 14.
  • There’s also a new short film out from Jim Jarmusch.
  • Rejected by publishers in the 1940s, Richard Wright’s novel about police brutality will finally see the light of day.
  • And jazz pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali’s only album as bandleader, thought lost for over 50 years, has been rediscovered and released.
  • Raúl Castro has stepped down as president of Cuba, but the country’s artists are not optimistic that anything will change there.
  • Dan Rather talked to A-list couple Ad-Rock and Kathleen Hanna for his new series.
  • Power mogul/workplace predator Scott Rudin announced he’s scaling back his presence as a Broadway producer. This piece explains how this should be as an opportunity for theater pros who don’t usually get a seat at the power table.
  • A historian discussed her project Dispatches from Quarantine, which collects art made by teens in response to COVID-19.
  • There’s a project underway to map anti-racism street art around the world.
  • This Bud’s for painting over Bollywood-inspired street art in India.
  • A creative team including Christine Sun Kim and Meeya Tijang have partnered on a T-shirt project to raise funds to fight anti-Asian racism.
  • Here’s a unique new spin on the COVID bubble concept.
  • Here’s a New York Times Magazine profile of emerging ceramist Seth Rogen.
  • Two Lane Blacktop filmmaker Monte Hellman passed away at the age of 91.
  • And Shock G, producer and leader of the legendary Digital Underground, left us at 57.

 

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