Weekend reading: February 11 edition

Around Ohio

• Saturday, Blockfort opens Bridge Over Troubled Water, a video installation by Christian Casas.
• The Mark Lomax Trio plays Saturday night at the McConnell Arts Center.
• Sunday morning, you can have your aura photographed in Clintonville.
• Or you can be your own Valentine at Chromedge Studio’s Self Love Market.
• Monday, Wild Goose Creative hosts a virtual workshop for artists on navigating the NFT market.
• Add another director search to the pile: the Columbus Museum of Art’s Nannette Maciejunes is retiring.
• Here’s a story about photographer Ben Willis and his new book, a love letter to Columbus.
• Columbus author Laura Larson’s book Hidden Mothers caught the attention of The New Yorker.
• Thursday, 934 Gallery is teaming up with Seventh Son Brewing for the pop-up exhibition Getaway.
• Angela Davis, Martin Luther King, and other faces of Black resilience portrayed by artist Evan Williams are on view this month at Two Truths.
• Granville artist Amanda Love has opened a new arts space in a former bank in downtown Newark.
• And ICYMI, Frank Gabrenya passed away last weekend at the age of 75. Here’s a tribute to the longtime Columbus Dispatch film critic and local legend.

Around the globe

• The Oscar nominations came out this week, with Jane Campion’s Power of the Dog once again leading the pack.
• That film's soundtrack artist, Jonny Greenwood, spoke to Terry Gross.
• And for your pre-awards catchup, you can view the Oscar-nominated doc Attica for free here.
• Legendary Hollywood composer John Williams announced he’s stepping away from film.
• Ever the showman, John Waters is raising money for the Provincetown Film Society by hosting an intimate dinner in a dump.
• Thursday night, Laylah Ali and Bethany Collins will have a virtual discussion about how artists address anti-black violence.
• Former Wex curator Christopher Bedford is the new director of SFMOMA.
• Upcoming Wex guest Kimberly Drew is the new associate director of Pace Gallery.
• Gina Duncan, the former head of BAM’s film program, will be the institution’s next president.
• UNESCO warned that there’s an unprecedented global crisis in the creative sector due to COVID, with 10 million jobs lost since 2020.
• Artist Millie Chen and Arzu Ozkal have turned the sounds of the Silk Road into an audio installation.
• Artists including Mona Hatoum and Agnieszka Polska have pulled out of a show in Moscow entitled Diversity United because of organizer ties to Right Wing politicians including Vladimir Putin.
• Mickalene Thomas dropped a new monograph.
• A teacher in North Korea and her students were arrested for performing “capitalist” dance moves.
• On his first day at work at feeling bored, a security guard at a Russian gallery decided to draw eyes on eyeless figures in a painting valued at over $1 million. We’re guessing he didn’t have a second day.
• Pop artist John Wesley died at the age of 93.
• And funk godmother Betty Davis passed away at 77.