Weekend Reading: February 23 Edition

Around Columbus

• The Wex and a host of other art spots including Urban Arts Space and MPACC Box Park are featured in this great outsider view of Columbus’ culture and food offerings from ARTnews.
• Sunday, Wild Goose Creative is hosting its next Art Critique Night.
• Maggie Smith discussed her new book for kids, My Thoughts Have Wings, which is having a live launch Sunday afternoon at Bexley Public Library.
• Donte Woods-Spikes talked about his first curatorial effort, Stories of Resilience: Black History Journey Through the Arts, which is on view through the end of the month at Upper Arlington Library.
• Attention arts professionals: Wednesday, the Ohio Arts Council is hosting a webinar on how to incorporate accessibility into social media plans.
• Filmmakers, the Hilliard Short Film Festival is now accepting submissions for the 2024 edition, happening June 1.
• And a heads-up for parents: a new season of Drawing with Mr. J. art tutorials has launched via WOSU Public Media.
• Thursday, CCAD’s Beeler Gallery opens the new shows Looking for Family, American Heroes, and Into the Uncanny Abyss.
• Looking ahead to the weekend, artist Emily Morgan is having a collage party Saturday at Franklin Park Conservatory.
• Also Saturday, 83 Gallery is having a make-up opening for its current show to compensate for a reception canceled due to weather.
• Mansion 731 in Olde Towne East will have a reception Saturday evening for its new show, MUSED, featuring the work of Cassidy Boyuk. You could slide right into that after checking out the Parsons Avenue Winter Art Hop and Mural Tour in the afternoon.
• And of course, the first Saturday of the month also brings Gallery Hop to the Short North.
• One more mention for an event-filled Saturday: the indescribable Sarah Asher will perform at Secret Studio.
• BTW, did you see who's coming to Mershon Auditorium May 31?!

Around the Globe

• Wednesday and Thursday, Literacy Partners is closing out Black History Month with a virtual reading of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye by luminaries including Angela Davis and Nikole Hannah-Jones.
• There’s a new publishing trend: AI-generated biographies of recently deceased celebrities.
• EC Comics has risen from the grave!
• Zines are getting a moment in the sun at the Brooklyn Museum.
• And speaking of the Brooklyn Museum, the institution has plans to use its 200th anniversary to make a statement about how museums should look in the 21st century.
• After presenting a show devoted to African American culture in 1969 that didn’t actually present any art, the Met has a new exhibition that finally does right by the Harlem Renaissance.
• Here’s a guide to the new federal regulations around Native cultural items and museums, illustrated through six objects.
• The Palestinian Museum in the West Bank has reopened after a four-month closure.
• Abstractionist Stanley Whitney discussed his newly opened, first-ever museum retrospective.
• Texas Right to Life is going head to head with a sculpture by Shahzia Sikander.
• A middle school art teacher in Montreal is facing a lawsuit for trying to monetize students’ artwork.
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse won big at the Annie Awards…
• …While Oppenheimer dominated at the BAFTAs, likely heralding a sign of things to come on Oscar night.
• A group of filmmakers including Christopher Nolan, Steven Spielberg, and Jason Reitman have joined forces to save Los Angeles’s Village Theater.
• There’s a new doc about legendary New York culinary destination Veselka.
• This weekend, Berliners can experience a film fest in the back of a taxicab.
• London’s V&A Museum is seeking a Taylor Swift expert.
• Beyoncé became the first Black woman to top Billboard’s country chart.
• NPR imagined a Lilith Fair for 2024 and put together a list of possibilities.
• And The New York Times created a playlist to sing the praises of Alynda Segarra, aka Riff Raff.
• Robert Macbeth, founder of Harlem’s New Lafayette Theater, passed away at 89.
• Modern furniture influencer Charles Stendig died at 99.
• Avant-garde music legend Damo Suzuki died at the age of 74.