Weekend Reading: January 19 Edition

Around Ohio

• New partnerships and an initiative spearheaded by Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities will help make events like the Columbus Arts Festival more accessible.
• Artist Mandi Caskey shared the personal inspiration behind her new show at Tiffin University.
• Scott Woods restarted his column for Matter News with a piece about the state of cultural placemaking in Columbus.
• There’s major drama swirling around Cleveland Ballet.
• Bela Koe-Krompecher paid tribute to the late Tommy Jay.
• Thursday through Saturday, Urban Arts Space will present live and livestreamed performances as part of the current show Grieving Landscapes.
• Friday, Blockfort brings back bHOLES.
• Next Saturday, a new show on the refugee experience, curated by Tariq Tarey, opens at Lancaster’s Decorative Arts Center of Ohio.
• There’s also Wonderball at Columbus Museum of Art Saturday night.

Around the Globe

• The Sundance Film Festival is underway and starting Thursday, select features will be available online in case you can’t swing by Park City. They include Johan Grimonprez’s impressionistic doc Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat and Handling the Undead, which reunites the stars of the 2022 arthouse hit The Worst Person in the World.
• The 2024 Oscar nominations will be announced Tuesday by actors Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid; here’s how you can watch them.
• BAFTA nominations were announced this week, with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer leading the pack.
• Among the new offerings on Netflix this month is a collection spotlighting films made in 1974, like Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation.
• A24 quietly dropped a new doc by My Octopus Teacher filmmaker Pippa Ehrlich on Prime this weekend.
• Film Comment shared a recently unearthed 1979 interview with Robert Bresson.
• Here are the big winners from Monday’s Emmy Awards.
• Stage and screen star John Cameron Mitchell opened the doors of his New Orleans home/queer art salon.
• Ishmael Reed spoke to Artnet about the newly published text of his play Beloved Caviar and how Jean-Michel Basquiat Is presented in popular culture.
• The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced its 2024 residency artists.
• And the Gordon Parks Foundation named its 2024 fellows.
• Stolen paintings by Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall that have been missing for over a decade were found in a basement in Belgium.
• As part of a highway widening project, the Egyptian government bulldozed the Cairo contemporary arts center Darb 1718—with art still inside the building.
• Des Moines Arts Center announced it will destroy a significant land art work by Mary Miss rather than restore it.
• For 2024, the World Monuments Fund will focus on protecting cultural heritage sites in Turkey and Ukraine.
• Deaf dancer Anna Seymour described the experiences that led her to start an interactive rave with Deaf hosts.
• Dance Magazine focused on longstanding creative partnerships between non-dancers and choreographers such as Ayodele Casel and Raja Feather Kelly.
• Condé Nast announced that it’s folding the music publication Pitchfork into GQ.
• After previewing the work for Columbus audiences at the 2023 Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, Daniel Clowes is sharing sketches for his new book Monica with gallery goers in Paris next week.
• Author Johannes Lichtman recounted what it was like to speak to the creative writing group at the CIA.
• Dictionaries are the latest casualty of “anti-woke” book restrictions in Florida.
• Venerated Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales died at 79.
• Brent Sikkema of the famed gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Co. was murdered in Brazil. He was 75. A person of interest has been detained in Sikkema’s killing.