Weekend reading: January 21 edition

Around Ohio

• To Begin, Again was featured in this roundup of the must-see exhibitions this winter.
• Adrienne Hood, the mother of Henry Green, who was killed by Columbus police, and one of the subjects of 2021 Unorthodocs selection They Won’t Call it Murder, sat down with Columbus Alive to talk accountability in policing.
• Artist Nathan Byrne shared the personal history behind his current show at ROY G BIV.
• King Arts Complex officially reopened its galleries.
• Richard Duarte Brown won a much-deserved Governor’s Award.
• Cleveland performer, activist, and archivist Bella Sin is helping Ohio State Libraries build its archive on the art of burlesque.
• Local author Sade Harrison spoke about her new book focused on kids in nontraditional families.
• Multimedia artist Lisa McLymont moved into set design.
• Fresh A.I.R. Gallery’s Myken Pullins podcasted with artists in recovery Rebecca Gonzalez Bartoli and Kristin Morris.
• Short North Stage opened the Off-Broadway fave Altar Boyz.
• Megan Lykins Reich was named the new Executive Director of MOCA Cleveland, a position that’s been vacant for over a year.
• And Ohio’s public art landscape has become more trollish.

Around the globe

• Tuesday, Anthology Film Archives celebrates its 50th anniversary with a virtual event on Vimeo with The Velvet Underground filmmaker Todd Haynes talking to critic Amy Taubin, plus special guests including Laurie Anderson and Jim Jarmusch.
• John Berger’s seminal documentary series Ways of Seeing also turns 50 this month.
• And it was 30 years ago that the Sundance Film Fest assembled an influential panel on the subject of New Queer Cinema, including Tom Kalin and Derek Jarman.
• Heads up, Sam Green fans: Sundance is streaming a virtual version of his newest work 32 Sounds for free next Saturday.
• On the eve of a restoration and rerelease, John Cameron Mitchell reflected on the sex-negative culture shifts in America since the release of his hardcore 2006 comedy Shortbus.
• The Hollywood Reporter hosted a director roundtable with participants such as Pedro Almodovar, Kennth Branagh, and Asghar Farhadi.
• The Guardian delved into the history of the dramatic musical cue “Dun Dun Dunnn.”
• A cryptocurrency consortium that spent $3 million on a copy of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s elaborate pitch book for his version of Dune were surprised and dismayed to discover the purchase didn’t come with rights to the source material.
• NFTs are now part of the art landscape of Marfa, Texas.
• Ben Garcia has been named the first executive director of the new American L.G.B.T.Q.+ Museum.
• Here’s a discussion about the potential for museums as venues for human flourishing, based on a study funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
• A 1972 Faith Ringgold mural that’s been displayed on Rikers Island (and was inspired by its female inmates) will be moved to the Brooklyn Museum.
• The Louvre is considering suing far-Right politician Marine Le Pen for shooting a campaign video on its property without permission.
• The archive of tech art pioneer Lillian Schwartz has been acquired by the Henry Ford Museum.
• Pace Gallery head Arne Glimcher is opening a new space in Tribeca.
• Jon Stewart will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the Kennedy Center.
• Playwright Paul Carter Harrison died at the age of 85.
• Known in the US for assuming roles like Yves Saint Laurent in the 2014 biopic of the fashion designer, French actor Gaspard Ulliel died in a skiing accident at the age of 37.