Weekend reading: February 19 edition

Around Ohio

• Join the King Arts Complex on Saturday for a virtual celebration of what would’ve been Aminah Robinson’s 81st birthday.
• Here’s a terrific review of our current show Climate Changing from Nancy Gilson for the Columbus Dispatch. (Remember, you can see it for free every Sunday thanks to a grant from The AEP Foundation.)
• Dublin’s Abbey Theatre will virtually premiere its production of #Charlottesville on Sunday.
• Wednesday afternoon, the Columbus Metropolitan Library kicks off a series of programs centered on race with a discussion and screening of Raoul Peck's essential documentary I Am Not Your Negro.
• Wednesday night, the Mid-Ohio Filmmakers Association will virtually host the fifth annual "State of Film in Ohio" meeting.
• Through March 7, OSU’s Urban Arts Space is streaming Hear We Go, a performance work that tells the story of a mime and a foley artist locked in an inter dimensional struggle.
• Artist Ashley Pierce will be beautifying a tunnel in the Harrison West neighborhood.
• The Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland has launched an ambitious, multi-venue show to put its own “anti-Black practices” under the microscope.
• And congratulations to the Columbus Museum of Art for the $1 million gift it received to support the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Curatorial Fellowship for Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts.

Around the globe

• There’s a new interview with Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Jaamil Olawale Kosoko from Dance Magazine. (That's Kosoko at top of page, during the shooting of his Wex-supported short film American Chameleon.)
• Torkwase Dyson also discussed her Wex Artist Residency Award project in a new interview out this week.
• In advance of a new doc series from Netflix, Mahershala Ali has recited Frederick Douglass’ “Fourth of July” speech.
• On Wednesday, you can log into a free virtual conversation with actor Dame Judi Dench.
• Here’s the latest controversial film essay from Martin Scorsese, about the devaluing of cinema.
• After weeks of sharing stories of award wins for Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland, we’re happy to share at last info on how you can watch it.
• What’s up with Amazon shutting independent documentarians and short film creators out of its self-publishing program?
• After earning raves at Sundance for his first film, Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Questlove has announced that his follow-up with be a doc about legendary funk artist Sly Stone.
• Black dancers and dance companies, such as Dance Theater of Harlem Executive Director Anna Glass, got candid about their struggles to survive during the pandemic.
• The amazing Bill Irwin talked about his new performance centered on the work of Samuel Beckett, which is streaming through March 7.
• Alex DaCorte has been tapped to design a new work for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rooftop.
• A new project from Google Arts + Culture aims to give you a multi-sensory experience of the work of Wassily Kandinsky.  
• MoMA has received a substantial gift of women-focused photography by artists including Louise Lawler and Lorna Simpson.
• How many women artists have been lost to history because they changed their name following marriage?
• Sam Gilliam and Howardena Pindell are among the artists who pop up in this piece on how Black abstract painters are finally getting their due. 
• New York’s DIY art community, including Paper cofounder Kim Hastreiter, is re-embracing print.
• Meow Wolf has opened its new, neon-lit interactive supermarket installation in Las Vegas, Omega Mart USA.
• Thousands of Indigenous oral histories are going to be digitally archived.
• John G. Hampton, the first indigenous leader of a public art gallery in Canada, has some thoughts on decolonizing museums.
• Here’s how Texas art museums took care of staff and their respective holdings during widespread power outages.
• This fall, visitors to Marfa will have another art destination to check out nearby.
• This week in facepalms, the President of the Indianapolis Museum of Art has resigned after a job listing for a new director called for a candidate who could maintain the institution’s “traditional, core, white art audience.”
• And this week in “history is a circle,” a century ago, Cole Porter created a pro-immigration protest ballet.
• Despite all the interesting news and new shows openings, we’re thinking the most amazing and profound thing we’ll see all week is this.