Weekend reading: January 15 edition

Around Ohio

• King Arts Complex will celebrate MLK Day Monday with a virtual celebration and the debut of its third annual community art exhibition, M(art)in Unites. 
• King Arts has also collaborated with Homage on a new pair of tees for the occasion.
• Matthew Cherry, producer of the Oscar-winning short Hair Love and executive producer of Blackkklansman, will virtually discuss his career and the legacy of Dr. King on Sunday afternoon via the Akron-Summit County Public Library.
• Capital University’s Schumacher Gallery opens Monday with a show of civil rights movement images (including the one seen at top of page) by Danny Lyon, the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Private appointments are available.
• Tuesday brings the unveiling of the group exhibition November at Columbus College of Art & Design, curated by artist and publisher Heather Taylor and so named because of its planned opening date.
• Thursday afternoon, Ohio State’s College of Arts & Sciences will present a virtual convo about the arts district developing at 15th and High.
• Also Thursday, the Columbus Museum of Art will host a virtual conversation with Dawoud Bey.
• And one more for Thursday: the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center is hosting an online event focused on Ohio’s Black cemeteries.
• Our friend Mitchell Rose is in the spotlight this week for his annual DANCE@30FPS program, coming February 12 to this website.
• Congrats to GenWex Advisory Committee member Jessica Burton. She’s among the new additions to the Greater Columbus Arts Council’s board of trustees.
• Applause also goes out to Creative Control Fest cofounder Marshall Shorts for being named Denison University’s Columbus Creative in Residence.
• In other new moves, Johnny Riddle is the new head of the Franklinton Arts District and Liz Martin is the new president of the board at 934 Gallery.
• Have you seen the new local artist tee from Lane Bryant?
• Columbus Monthly has a sweet story about artist Raymonn “Sugar Ray” Daniels and his work commemorating the dead in wearable airbrush art.

Around the globe

• To commemorate what would’ve been Chris Burden’s 75th birthday, The Chris Burden Estate has released a sharp new poster by its team member Erica Mercado. It incorporates one of Burden's drawings for Wexner Castle, which was just reinstalled on our building's exterior for the winter exhibition Climate Changing. A hi-res version of the poster is being shared with subscribers to the estate’s newsletter.
• E-flux is streaming a program of shorts by Raqs Media Collective, another contributor to Climate Changing, through February 2. 
• Jacolby Satterwhite, whose work will also be seen in Climate Changing, secured a 2020 grant from Via Art Fund.
• Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Mark Lomax was called out in NPR’s 2020 Jazz Critics Poll for his 400 Years Suite.
• White supremacist art in the Capitol is the subject of the latest podcast from The Art Newspaper.
• A game designer has written an analysis of the conspiracy cult QAnon.
• J. Hoberman reviewed Jayden X’s 39-minute video of last week’s insurrection, “Shooting and Storming of the US Capitol,” for Artforum.
• Through next Friday, Film Society of Lincoln Center is hosting a tribute to the impressive career of filmmaker Sam Pollard to celebrate the release of his new doc MLK/FBI. A talk between Pollard and Spike Lee is among the exclusive extras.
• Sweden’s Gothenburg Film Festival is taking applications for The Isolated Cinema, which offers a chance to watch all of the fest’s selections by yourself in a lighthouse off the country’s coast.
• Garrett Bradley talked about her new MoMA show and her incredible 2020 documentary Time.
• Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland picked up another Best Picture win at the Gotham Awards, along with an Audience Award.
• Flag Wars filmmaker Laura Poitras posted an open letter about her firing from the investigative news outlet The Intercept.
• Naomi Beckwith will be the first Black Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Guggenheim.
• Steve McQueen and Marian Goodman Gallery are honoring the life of the late Okwui Enwezor with a program to find career opportunities for BIPOC curators.
• You have to see Lorna Simpson’s pics of Rihanna for Essence magazine.
• Here’s a piece on the growing movement to recognize the value of arts workers.
• Here’s a firsthand account of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new AR experience, The Met Unframed.
• Tacita Dean is among the artists returning to the once fashionable practice of creating relatively affordable work in multiples.
• Over 700,000 artworks from the collection of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum are now available online.
• The Warhol Foundation announced its Fall 2020 grant recipients.
• Filmmaker Joan Micklin Silver passed away. (A restored version of her 1977 cult favorite Between the Lines screened at the Wex in 2019.)
• We’ve also lost original New York Doll Sylvain Sylvain.
• Marianne Faithful shared her harrowing experience with COVID-19.
• The National Endowment for the Arts has released a lengthy document collecting best practices from arts organizations around the country for reopening safely. 
• And Dr. Anthony Fauci is optimistic that if all goes well with vaccination delivery, theaters and music venues can reopen in the fall. Fingers crossed, everyone.