Weekend reading: April 9 edition

Around Columbus

• CCAD’s Alumni Art & Design Market is open all weekend with wares from artists including former Wex film/video editor and archivist Mike Olenick.
• Sunday at 11 AM brings the return of Punk Rock Pawn Shop to Ace of Cups (in the parking lot, socially distanced).
• Monday through Wednesday online, learn about how you can make the arts a government priority during the Ohio Citizens for the Arts Foundation’s Creative Ohio Advocacy Summit.
• Through next Sunday, Jazz Arts Group has an online concert with vocalist Alexa Tarantino and the music of Charlie Parker.
• For National Poetry Month, Columbus Alive shared a roundup of coverage on local poets including Wex Learning & Public Practice Director Dionne Custer Edwards and recent Zoom guest Hanif Abdurraqib.
• Here’s a terrific new review of Climate Changing from Columbus Underground.
• Check out a new interview with and a playlist from musician Joe Camerlengo via 614 Music Club.
• There’s also a new edition of “Tutti Time” from musician Tutti Jackson.
• Ohio State professor Wendy Hesford shares here why arts and humanities are vital to post-COVID recovery.
• And ICYMI, adults can quench their thirst with a collaboration between King Arts Complex and Wolf’s Ridge Brewing.

Around the globe

• The 2021 Guggenheim Fellows were announced and the list includes former Wex curator Helen Molesworth and filmmakers Ephraim Asili and Cauleen Smith, who recently participated in a virtual conversation for which the Wex was a partner.
• The Asian American arts worker group StopDiscriminAsian wrote an open letter protesting racism.
• Artspace New Haven, which is now helmed by former Columbus Museum of Art curator Lisa Dent, launched an eight-part podcast series centered on the work of W.E.B. Du Bois.
• Despite the pandemic, students who want to pursue the arts in college are cautiously optimistic. 
• Here’s a piece on how the arts and humanities are the future of work.
• It looks like the NFT boom has started to go bust.
• There’s a program launching in St. Paul, MN to provide a guaranteed minimum income for artists and culture workers.
• Here’s the latest on mutual aid networks created by arts workers, some of which are becoming permanent.
• A copy of Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. that was forgotten in a desk drawer for 35 years sold at auction last week for over $600,000. (Classic video game fans might also want to check out this recent talk.) 
• Twyla Tharp was on Fresh Air this week.
• So was the seemingly ubiquitous Hanif Abdurraqib.
• The AXS Film Fund is now taking applications for grants of up to $10,000 from disabled filmmakers of color
• Filmmakers are no longer allowed to appeal censorship decisions made through India’s stringent film certification process.
• On the flip side, Italy has abolished film censorship.
• Powerful producer Scott Rudin is the latest Hollywood heavy to be called out for toxic behavior.
• Rogerebert.com collected reviews of 13 films by filmmakers including Agnès Varda and Terrence Malick to commemorate the anniversary of Roger Ebert’s death.
• Here’s a look back at the infamous autobiography of classic film star Errol Flynn.
• Media arts theorist Gene Youngblood passed away at 78.