Weekend Reading: February 10 edition

Around Ohio

• Selections from our upcoming Cinema Revival fest, including the Thelonious Monk doc Rewind & Play, were featured in this roundup of films to check out during Black History Month.
• Matter caught up with Christina Navarro, curator of a show of Black and Indigenous artists opening at All People Arts this Saturday.
• The Ohio Arts Council announced its 75 Individual Excellence Award recipients for 2023, including familiar names like Cameron Granger, CCAD’s Tim Rietenbach, and former Wex Film/Video Studio editor Mike Olenick.
• Columbus Cultural Orchestra has a pop-up concert Sunday at Columbus Museum of Art.
• Art Possible Ohio launched a podcast series for Black History Month with a conversation with musician Zayne Harshaw.
• Tuesday, Secret Studio is hosting a unique Valentine’s party with resident artists Lydia Loveless and Amy Turn Sharp.
• Artists Brett Davis and Akeylah Wellington, who’ve been working with our Learning & Public Practice team on classes at Linden Rec Center, will be featured in this MFA Thesis show opening next Saturday at Urban Arts Space.
• The Dispatch covered the new book on Edgar Allan Poe out from Northern Ohio writer Mark Dawidziak.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art has a new curator of decorative art.
• We don’t even know where to begin with this local arts story.
• Next Friday, Pizzuti Collection opens the show Greater Columbus, featuring work by award-winning local artists like Roger Beebe and Hannah Parrett.
• Columbus lost influential local poetry legend Is Said this week. Here’s a tribute from the Free Press. And a friend of the artist posted this memorable reading during 2004’s Comfest.

Around the globe

• In big international news, give it up for the newly announced curator of the Canada pavilion for the 2024 Venice Biennale! Artist Kapwani Kiwanga will represent for the country.
• First Nations artist Archie Moore will rep for Australia at the 2024 Venice Biennale.
• The Venice Biennale announced the 2023 Lion winners for dance, including the great Simone Forti.
• The Hirshhorn Museum is working with MTV on a reality series that’ll pit emerging artists against each other, and one of the competitors will be familiar to Wex patrons: Baseera Khan.
• For Super Bowl weekend, here’s a story about how LA’s SoFi Stadium has become a venue for art.
• Also, a look at how Hank Willis Thomas, who has a work installed in Arizona’s State Farm Stadium, is handling misinterpretations of his work.
• And a report on the major artwork loan that’s on the line in a bet between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum.
• Ming Smith was profiled by T Magazine.
• Wangechi Mutu was featured in The Times proper.
• There’s a hot new look in the art world: art collective MSCHF’s “Big Red Boots.”
• Here’s a new report on the museums that have been too slow to return artifacts to Indigenous communities.
• The International Association of Art Critics is under fire for a failure to focus on diversity.
• The Pentagon has reversed its policy on Guantánamo Bay prisoners being able to take art work they made while incarcerated with them, sort of.
• Bloomberg considered the question of whether the modernist design of the Brazilian capital made it harder for rioters to recreate a January 6 scenario.
• CNN caught up with the story of wildly successful art forger couple Wolfgang and Helene Beltracchi.
• The Iranian government released filmmaker Jafar Panahi from prison two days after he started a hunger strike.
• Yasmina Price, who contributed her thoughts to our recent series on filmmaker Sara Gómez, interviewed Alice Diop about her acclaimed drama Saint Omer.
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed filmmaker Laura Poitras and the doc’s subject, Nan Goldin, spoke to Terry Gross.
• On the eve of our Cinema Revival screening of Rewind & Play, here’s a piece on how Thelonious Monk changed music.
• Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura died at the age of 91.
• And legendary composer Burt Bacharach passed away this week at the age of 94.