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Weekend reading: August 14 edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Aug 14, 2020

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Around Ohio

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Willie Phoenix, image courtesy of CAPA

  • Cleveland-based organization mama.film is presenting the rePRO by mama.film Festival all weekend. The femme-centric, sex-positive selections include The Dilemma of Desire (pictured at top of page), which was partially lensed by Represent filmmaker Hillary Bachelder.
  • Saturday, Ohio Fashion Night will present work by independent designers from around the state.
  • Local legend Willie Phoenix will perform online Saturday as part of the ApART together concert series.
  • Artists Christine Gaffney and Leah Trznadel have a new show up at ROY G BIV.
  • BalletMet Columbus is offering a free stream of Christopher Wheeldon’s Fool’s Paradise through 7 PM Sunday.
  • Red Herring Productions has a live stream of the one-woman show Grounded Sunday evening.
  • The Greater Columbus Arts Council has a new grant program for Black artists and photographers who've created work or documented responses to the Black Lives Matter protests.

 

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Advertisement for Good Humor's new collaboration with The RZA, courtesy of Good Humor

  • Filmmaker Charles Burnett argues that big money spent on Hollywood film production could be better used helping people, instead.
  • The full lineup for this year’s in-person New York Film Festival has been announced.
  • Here’s a trailer for the new, five-part anthology by Steve McQueen on London’s West Indian community.
  • Filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky has some thoughts on how the pandemic can save cinema.
  • Here’s what we can look forward to now that movie studios can legally become monopolies again.
  • Painter Angel Otero discusses his new work in the online show Life during Wartime: Art in the Age of Coronavirus and his stalled plans to build a studio and community center in Puerto Rico.
  • Coronavirus is also the subject of a new outdoor exhibition from the New York Historical Society.
  • The 2020 Battery Dance Festival has moved online.
  • A Filipino American family in Staten Island, New York has made a film reimagining of Oedipus Rex and Antigone for you to stream.
  • Here’s a list of articles updates as part of a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon dedicated to women artists of color.
  • A relief fund has been launched to support the already struggling Beirut art community after last week’s massive explosions.
  • Detroit writer Nicole Tersigni has turned her social media thread using 17th century art to illustrate mansplaining into a book.
  • The RZA has collaborated with Good Humor to write a new ice cream truck jingle that isn't racist.
  • Music is increasingly being used as a sedative to calm sleeplessness.
  • A new study from the Brookings Institution, coauthored by “Creative Class” theorist Richard Florida, has found that 2.7 million jobs have been lost in the creative sector due to COVID-19.
  • The murder-suicide involving German curator Rebeccah Blum and artist Saul Fletcher has started a debate about the lack of mental health care provisions in the art industry.
  • Teresa Watson, an artist with schizoaffective disorder, visualized her self care strategy for The New York Times.
  • Painter Luchita Hurtado has passed away at the age of 99.
  • Lastly, something to look forward to: Ava DuVernay is making a show for HBO Max based on the Twitter account One Perfect Shot.