Weekend reading: February 25 edition

Around Ohio

• Sunday afternoon, verge.fm debuts the new comedy and storytelling show Three Alleged Blondes. New episodes will drop the fourth Sunday of every month.
• ICYMI, the most recent version of Scott Woods’ lecture “Stephen King’s Magical Negroes” is now on YouTube.
• For the first time in its history, Columbus Monthly is a finalist for a National Magazine Award, earning the recognition for the issue guest-edited by author Wil Haygood.
• Local artist Elizabeth Gerdeman is among those selected for Project Anywhere’s 2022 Global Exhibition Program.
• Tuesday, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum hosts a Will Eisner Week symposium with scholars Jared Gardner and Shawna Kidman.
• Thursday, CCAD is hosting a virtual talk with recent Wex exhibiting artist LaToya Ruby Frazier.
• Comfest has opened its call for entries for logos for the 50th anniversary of the event.
• Next weekend, Nationwide Children’s Hospital will sponsor a benefit run of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella.
• Blockfort opens a show of work by Elham Bayati and Christine D’Epiro Abbott Friday, along with a blacklight art show by Lindsey Tribelhorn.
• And next Saturday, there’s stuff happening all over town. In the Short North, Sean Christopher Gallery celebrates its 20th anniversary during Gallery Hop with its annual show of work by the students of Fort Hayes.
• Also Saturday, the Billy opens Dark Laughter Revisited: The Life and Times of Ollie Harrington.
• In Olde Towne East, the new 731 Gallery opens Saturday with art by Maggie Cappelletti.
• And at the MAC in Worthington, jazz musician Phil Maneri takes the stage with artist Lance Johnson for the music-and-live-painting pairing Kaleidoscope.

Around the globe

• Artists are speaking out against Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
• The invasion is also creating uncertainty around things like the Ukrainian Pavilion at the upcoming Venice Biennale. Workers on that project are now in hiding.
• Bank of America locations around the country will become galleries for disadvantaged artists.
• The New Yorker checked in with Hito Steyerl.
• NPR turned the spotlight on the security guards curating a show at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
• Meanwhile, the security guard who drew eyes on a painting in a Russian gallery exhibition has regrets.
• More than 70 years after it was first envisioned, a museum of Black art has opened inside Brazil’s Inhotim Institute.
• Roy Lichtenstein’s studio space has been donated to the Whitney Museum.
• The question of who owns the rights to the estate of visionary artist Henry Darger has gone to court.
• The New York Times caught up with the current boom in horror films made by women.
• Here’s a rundown of highlights from the Berlin Film Festival.
• Here’s a new interview with Black Film Archive creator Maya Cade.
• Francis Ford Coppola will spend over $100 million to fund his dream project, Megalopolis.
• Open Television has launched a call for applications for a new fellowship that will build a career pipeline for LGBTQ creatives in film and TV.
• A new Netflix documentary series about Andy Warhol will be narrated by an AI version of the artist.
• News you didn’t know you needed: the organizers of the annual Razzie awards opened up about their process.
• Alt text had a moment in the sun.
• Mark Morris didn’t mince words about the state of the arts industry after COVID.
• Dance Magazine asked, does anyone really need to rank college dance departments?
• Friends University in Kansas is making news for censoring a show about censorship.
• Who wants to watch how a book is made?
• Multimedia artist Dan Graham died at the age of 79.