Weekend Reading: January 20 Edition

Around Ohio

• Urban Arts Space has a new juried show of students in the Arts Scholars program opening this weekend.
• The anime convention Ohayocon is also happening this weekend.
• The Columbus Arts Festival has a new director: longtime local event guru and WOSU Assistant Director of Community Engagement Alexis Perrone.
• Composer Brian Harnetty collaborated on an exhibition that opened this week at Ross Art Museum.
• The Greater Columbus Arts Council also made news for its Art Spot project, featuring work by artists such as Rob W. Jones and Catherine Bell Smith.
• And the grant organization is having a workshop Tuesday with tips on applying for project support funds.
• Also Tuesday afternoon, we’re hosting a free screening of the doc Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL with guests Dave Zirin and Ohio State Athletic Director Gene Smith.
• Call Me Rita and Mezclado are among the local favorites in Tuned Up’s list of 2023 Ohio bands to watch.
• Thursday, CCAD opens Mentor; Mentee, a collaboration between Tracy Powell and Celeste Malvar-Stewart.
• And don’t forget, next Friday brings your chance for a first look at our winter-spring exhibitions.

Around the globe

• Miguel Gutierrez was awarded the New York Live Arts residency. The choreographer visited the Wex in January 2020 to perform This Bridge Called My Ass and take part in a panel discussion about race and abstraction.
• First Nation dancers in Australia created their own take on Childish Gambino’s “This is America.”
• The New York Times’ Gia Kourlas highlighted the robust history of stair dancing.
• All Quiet on the Western Front led the pack in this year’s BAFTA nominations.
• On the eve of Sundance, Variety weighed in on the troubling state of independent film exhibition.
• While Indiewire wrote about the possible fate of Turner Classic Movies amid the upheaval at WarnerMedia Discovery.
• Shoplifters filmmaker Kore-eda Hirokazu has a new series on Netflix.
• Filmmaker Sky Hopinka discussed his process with Atlas Obscura.
• Part of the week’s art news landscape looks more like a police blotter. First, the former payroll manager of The Art Institute of Chicago has been charged with defrauding the institution out of $2 million.
• Then, in a win for digital archivists, an online collection portal aided in the capture of a New Bedford Whaling Museum employee who stole and sold tens of thousands of dollars worth of artifacts.
• Also, San Francisco art dealer Shannon Collier Gwin was arrested for assault after he hosed down an unhoused woman sitting in front of his gallery. And artist Courtney Desiree Morris staged a performance in front of Gwin’s gallery to honor the victim.
• In other arrests, a Spanish collector has been charged with forging works by artists including Roy Lichtenstein.
• The Guatemalan government is under fire, as well, for illegally exporting an ancient Mayan throne for an exhibition at the Met. (Here’s a take on that Mayan show, btw.)
• And of course, there’s this week’s news about Alec Baldwin.
• But in happier announcements, the Gordon Parks Foundation announced the recipients of its 2023 fellowships.
• And congrats go out to former Columbus Museum of Art curator Lisa Dent; she was just appointed to run public programs for Mass MoCA.
• Vanity Fair took the current temperature of the NFT market.
• Following a debilitating accident, writer Hanif Kureishi has been sharing his story on Twitter.
• Have we reached peak podcast?
• Vice argued that AI tools such as ChatGPT could be the future of learning.
• Meanwhile, here’s how AI’s journalism presence is going.
• Getty Images is suing AI image generator Stability AI for intellectual property theft.
• And here’s how AI is faring in the world of songwriting—at least according to Nick Cave.
• As we prepare to reveal our next suite of exhibitions, we’re feeling this piece about the essential nature of a sense of wonder.
• Interesting question posed by a new Robert Whitman show in New York: Did the “Happenings” of the 1960s seed the field for the immersive art of today?
• Physicists have unraveled what makes a jazz song “swing.”
• Actor Gina Lollobrigida passed away at the age of 95.
• Textile artist Ruth Adler Schnee died at 99.
• And Italian multimedia artist Gianfranco Baruchello died at the age of 99.