Weekend Reading: April 28 Edition

Around Columbus

• You have two opportunities to see Billy Ireland Cartoon Library curator Caitlin McGurk on the small screen this weekend: catch up with the latest Shaturday Morning Cartoons video from Found Footage Fest or watch CBS Sunday Morning for a segment on the Billy’s current exhibition, Man Saves Comics!
• Sunday, The Vanderelli Room will have a live jazz memorial to honor late musicians including Wahru Cleveland.
• Also Sunday, CAPA is hosting the free family activity day El Día de los Niños.
• And Sunday night, Skylab is having the April edition of its Skymic poetry series.
• BalletMet announced its upcoming season.
• It’s been a big week for local writers, with Hanif Abdurraqib dropping an essay about Little Richard in the New Yorker and Maggie Smith getting a New York Times profile treatment.
• The Jazz and Rib Fest announced its lineup for the July event.
• The 2023 COSI Science Festival kicks off Wednesday.
• Also Wednesday, GCAC’s gallery opens RENEWAL: Works About Hope, a collaborative show with Fresh A.I.R. Gallery.
• Looking ahead to next weekend, Blockfort has a lot going on, with two new gallery shows opening Friday and Alley Islands happening Saturday.
• And Free Comic Book Day is Saturday, with local shops including Laughing Ogre participating.

Around the globe

• Jim Jarmusch has finally released an album with his two-man band Sqürl, which performed at the Wex in November 2017, but his days of directing may be over.
• Ken Loach is also saying his new film may be his last.
• The trailer dropped for the new doc The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons. We’ll be screening the film June 23–24.
• Actor Matt Dillon collaborated with artist Jesper Just on a video work shot inside an MRI machine.
• Iran has lifted Jafar Panahi’s travel ban.
• Applications are open through May 15 for the 2023 Library of Congress/Ken Burns Prize for Film. Late-stage feature-length documentaries are eligible.
• TikTok has gone wild for the aesthetic of Wes Anderson.
• French electricity workers are threatening to cut power to the Cannes Film Fest to protest the country’s new pension law.
• British curator June Givanni spoke about her work amassing a 10,000-piece pan-African film archive.
• A new episode of the David Zwirner podcast came out with a discussion between Helen Molesworth and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh on Gerhard Richter.
• The shortlist for the 2023 Turner Prize was released.
• ProPublica took at look at provenance issues around the Met’s collection of Native American artifacts.
• The New York Times looked at how museums are pivoting in the aftermath of the pandemic.
• There’s a new book out about how the internet has reshaped art.
• It’s official: book bannings are at their highest level ever in the US.
• A touring theater production in England is taking a fascinating approach to limiting environmental impact.
• The Drama Desk Awards are going gender neutral.
• Time covered the Colorado Resiliency Arts Lab, a research project aiming to heal burned-out healthcare workers with dance.
• Degas’s Little Dancer became the latest target for climate activists.
• Artis Yvonne Jacquette died at the age of 88.
• And we’re sad to report that inspiring, multitalented artist and activist Harry Belafonte passed away at 96. The Wex hosted a visit by Belafonte in 2012.