Weekend reading: January 22 edition

Around Columbus

• CAPA’s hosting an Evil Dead watch party with star Bruce Campbell Saturday night.
• Also Saturday, Franklin Park Conservatory opens Bringing Reverence to Nature, a show of paper flora by Lea Gray.
• Sunday night, DJ Trueskills and DJ Mazeppa will broadcast an all-vinyl set of jazz and international tracks from Studio 35, via Radio614.
• Local artists, the Columbus Museum of Art is looking for teachers for its Summer Art Workshops.
• Mark your calendar for next Friday: Columbus Moving Image Art Review 45 will be streaming at 8 PM via Facebook and YouTube.
• Artist Susanne Dotson shares paintings inspired by her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s this month at Sarah Gormley Gallery.
• There’s a new sculpture by Seattle artists Julian and Adriana Voss-Andreae in downtown’s Washington Gladden Social Justice Park.
• And Wex Board of Trustees member Jeni Britton Bauer has unveiled a new flavor of her splendid ice creams, inspired by a high-profile fan. Here’s how President Joe Biden became enamored with her work.
• Give it up for the nicest part of local protests around the presidential inauguration: the Dancing Trucker.
• Lastly, the marquee outside Athens’ Athena Cinema is speaking for many of us right now.

Around the globe

• Inspired by the work of Jenny Holzer, writer Douglas Coupland has been covering billboards in Vancouver with Slogans for the 21st Century.
• Artist Dara Birnbaum and MoMA curator Thomas Lax are among the art world insiders who shared their hopes for 2021.
• Here’s a guide for recognizing the symbols of the Far Right.
• Related, here’s a quick guide to the legal issues around using images of the storming of the Capitol in your artwork.
• Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese’s video work Political Advertisement came up in MoMA's magazine this week.
• The art world had fun with the now-ubiquitous picture of Bernie Sanders at the inauguration. A personal favorite pairing the Vermont Senator with Marina Abramovic is at top of page.
• Still as ubiquitous as the Vermont senator was on social media this week, I think we can all agree that the real breakout of the inauguration was National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman.
• The chair of the National Endowment for the Arts has stepped down.
• The two-year-old New York public sculpture the Vessel has been closed following the third suicide by someone who jumped off the 150 foot-tall structure.
• MASS MoCA from Home launches this weekend with a virtual tour of works by Sol LeWitt.
• Renaissance man John Lurie has a new show on life and painting on HBO.
• You’ve seen the Little Free Libraries and Little Free Food Pantries. Now, in Seattle, there’s a Little Free Art Gallery.
• If you’ve watched our Unorthodocs Shorts program and still haven’t gotten your fill of mini movies, Alfreda’s Cinema has partnered with Metrograph NYC on the shorts program “Protect Black Women,” in honor of the first Black Indian woman being sworn in as Vice President. It’s streaming through January 25.
• Actor and activist Wendell Pierce spoke about the role of art in advancing social progress.
• Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins got together for a conversation to mark the 30th anniversary of Jonathan Demme’s masterful Silence of the Lambs. 
• H/t to Billy Ireland Cartoon Library curator Caitlin McGurk for a link to this striking new short by animator Nicholas D’Agostino.
• Every season of Jim Henson’s The Muppet Show is coming to Disney+.
• The union that represents stage workers is advocating for this labor force to be used to set up COVID-19 vaccine sites in empty performance venues. 
• Writer and former dancer Theresa Ruth Howard wrote a primer for performing arts companies on the difference between tokenism and representation.
• Fascinated by the spread of conspiracy theories? Here’s a piece on the evolution of collective delusion and its connection to the human need for storytelling.
• And here’s a fun kicker from McSweeney’s: an artist’s statement from the designer of a restaurant’s COVID-era outdoor seating.