Weekend reading: August 19 edition

Around Ohio

• Saturday, CBUS Soul Fest will take over Bicentennial Park, with performances by Paisha Thomas and The Soul Rebels featuring Talib Kweli included in the lineup.
• Also Saturday, The Heatcheck at Land Grant Brewing offers vendors, food, DJs, and obviously, beer, to raise funds for Gladden Community House.
• Monday, Greater Columbus Arts Council brings an Arts Happy Hour to Slammer’s.
• There are several other artist opportunities available this week. First, Scrawl opened its call for vendors for this year’s event, happening October 15–16.
• ROY G BIV Gallery put out a final call for artist submissions for the 2023 exhibition season. Deadline is August 26.
• Ohio Art League is seeking artists for its 2022 Juried Exhibition. Deadline is September 9.
• And Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences is seeking a Program Coordinator for Emerge, an art and technology innovation incubator that will connect the campus community to the Linden neighborhood.
• Hanif Abdurraqib contributed a story to The New York Times about the music of Connie Converse.
• Mandi Caskey and other local artists brought beautification to soon-to-be demolished homes in Whitehall.
• Brian Harnetty, who’ll be performing at the Wex this fall, is in the latest crop of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Society of Fellows.
• The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded over $30 million in grants to over 200 projects, including preservation work at Ohio State’s Historic Costume & Textiles Collection.
• Art teacher Jon Juravich dropped a new art tutorial on drawing lovable monsters.
• Author and Columbus native Wil Haygood won the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award.
• Cincinnati Art Museum Director Cameron Kitchin is among the new appointees to the National Museum and Library Services Board.
• JP Morgan Chase is investing $1.5 million in an “equity design” institute in collaboration with Zora’s House and The Women’s Fund of Central Ohio.
• Thursday, the Columbus Museum of Art hosts an evening with Avis and Eugene Robinson, discussing the work of Aminah Robinson.
• And start getting excited now for the Queen Brooks tribute exhibition at Columbus Metropolitan Library; its opening reception is next Saturday afternoon.

Around the globe

• A lot of stories hit this week around the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences finally issuing an apology to Sacheen Littlefeather, the Indigenous woman who refused an Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando in 1973. Here’s an oral history of the incident.  And here’s a new take on the tale that John Wayne had to be restrained from physically assaulting Littlefeather.
• In other Academy news, animator and past Wex Artist Residency Award recipient John Canemaker just gave the institution a significant donation of archive materials.
• Filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan talking about his searing 2004 psychological drama Keane on the eve of a restored version coming to theaters. The film had its local debut at the Wex with a visit from the filmmaker and critic Kent Jones.
• Composer Joe Hisaishi spoke about his longtime collaboration with animator Hayao Miyazaki.
• The sci-fi cult favorite Soylent Green was set in 2022. Here’s a perspective on how the film’s predictions went so wrong.
• Climate Changing contributor Sable Elyse Smith is featured in this profile of artists taking on mass incarceration. (The piece also mentions the MoMA show that featured work by local artist Aimee Wissman.)
• The Frankenthaler Climate Initiative awarded $3 million in grants to orgs including Louisville’s Speed Art Museum.
• Here’s the latest story involving climate activists, classical art, and glue.
• Land artist Michael Heizer’s monumental work The City will open in the Nevada desert early next month.
• Here’s where you’ll be able to see Paula Rego’s “Abortion Etchings” next month.
• Lynette L. Allston has become the first Indigenous person to lead the board of a major US museum.
• There’s trouble at the Berlin Biennale.
• Cambodian officials claims a cache of items looted from the country can be found in a gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Chalk one up for the power of images: Conservatives were more likely to change their views on COVID-19 after seeing visual proof of the damage it can do to a body.
• The Guardian wrote about the connection between storytelling and effective modern medicine.
• Also about the benefits of online cultural events for lonely seniors.
• Here’s a story on the most seductive songs produced by Roxy Music from a very reliable source: lead singer Bryan Ferry.
• In one of the more interesting stories we’ve come across lately from the theater world, the entire Board of Directors at Seattle’s A Contemporary Theatre resigned en masse.
• American Theatre raised a good question: what role can performance play in the fight for abortion rights?
• The sounds of choreographers at work are going viral on TikTok.
• New research suggests that humans make more virtuous decisions when using pen and paper than when using a digital device.
• The copyright protectors at the Artist Rights Society are launching an NFT platform.
• Starting Wednesday, Artnet îs hosting a week-long event in the Metaverse.
• What does an AI make of what it sees in a contemporary art museum? Here’s one answer.
• Author Salman Rushdie has long been the target of a fatwa by the Ayatollah Khomeini for his 1989 book The Satanic Verses. Here’s a piece that covers the recent attempt on his life through that historical filter. And here’s an update on Rushdie’s condition.
• In light of all the scare quotes and new laws being rolled out around “critical race theory,” here’s an update on what kids across the country are actually being taught in history class.
• Lastly, here’s a tribute to the talents of actress Anne Heche following her death at age 53 from injuries sustained in a car accident.