Weekend reading: January 14 edition

Around Columbus

• Tig Notaro performs at the Southern Theatre on Sunday.
• Franklinton Arts District is seeking designers for the 2022 Franklinton Friday Summer Series. Chosen artists will have their work exhibited and featured on a Land Grant Brewery beer label.
• Ohio State Professor of English Koritha Mitchell wrote about how reading queer authors improved her relationships.
• CAPA has Grimmz Fairy Tales, a hip hop reimagining of the classic stories, streaming for families through January 30.
• Thursday, Schumacher Gallery opens a two-woman show with Karen LaValley and Kirsten Bowen.
• And Lance Johnson opens his show, Post No Ills, at McConnell Arts Center the same night.
• Also Thursday, Red Herring Theater launches a production of Leonard Nimoy’s play Vincent at the Columbus Museum of Art.
• And next Friday, wordsmiths Lydia Loveless and Amy Turn Sharp will lead a virtual writing workshop.

Around the globe

• The American Sector, the Film/Video Studio-supported feature by Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez that explores where slabs of the Berlin Wall have wound up, made The New York Times’ list of great docs to stream this month.
• Speaking of Stephens, Creative Capital announced the recipients of its latest round of project grants, including JJJJJerome Ellis, subject of the her short Perfect Fifths, which screened in The Box this fall.
• The Chicago Film Society and Houston’s FotoFest are among the recipients of Fall 2021 grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation.
• Amnesty International opened a call to artists under 30 for poster art demanding the closure of Guantanamo Bay.
• Next week, Color Congress will begin accepting applications from documentary filmmakers of color for two-year unrestricted grants.
• The public-facing part of last weekend’s Golden Globes Awards didn’t exactly go smoothly, but Jane Campion and Steven Spielberg had little reason to complain.
• Vox asked, why are films and series going gray?
• Here’s an argument for the importance of supporting regional film festivals.
• There’s a term gaining traction in the sci-fi genre: hopepunk.
• Curator Hilton Als spoke to Apichatpong Weerasethakul for The New Yorker.
• Musician and Moog synthesizer legend Bernie Krause has made a sound installation from 50 years’ worth of nature recordings of 15,000 terrestrial and marine creatures.
• The Louvre is partnering with the Grand Palais on an immersive exhibition that’ll give The Mona Lisa the Van Gogh treatment.
• Wikipedia is in hot water for declaring that NFTs don’t qualify as art.
• The Irish government is rolling out a basic income program for artists.
• Guardian art critic Rachel Cooke used her own collection as the basis for an essay about the joy of owning art regardless of budget.
• Woodworker John Powers discussed the inspiration that came out of a dismembering table saw accident.
• Dance Magazine wondered how the field of movement can get past a culture of pain.
• The Art Newspaper checked in on where modern architecture stands in the current wave of Right Wing culture warring.
• The late Maya Angelou has become the first Black woman to appear on a US quarter.
• Oscar-winning lyricist Marilyn Bergman passed at 93.