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Weekend reading: January 28 edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Jan 28, 2022

Still from the 2021 independent film They/Them/Us

Still from They/Them/Us, courtesy of the filmmakers and Gravitas Ventures

Around Ohio

Photo of sheep at Michael Mercil's Virtual Pasture, adjacent to the Wexner Center for the Arts

Michael Mercil, Virtual Pasture, Spring 2009–Autumn 2011 at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Image: Shetland ewe grazing pasture site, spring 2010, courtesy of the artist.

They/Them/Us, a locally made feature directed by Jon Sherman and cowritten with his partner, past Wex Film/Video Studio residency artist Melissa Vogley Woods, opens in theaters this weekend with a positive review from the Paper of Record.
This week in awards for Hanif Abdurraqib: the author earned a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal.
Monday, Freedom a la Cart is hosting a conversation on mindful consumerism.
Michael Mercil talked digital pastures and virtual sheep on the Voices of Excellence podcast.
Musician Jason Isbell and poet Maggie Smith got to talking for Columbus Alive.
Friday evening, Blockfort hosts an opening of You Won’t Be Laughing, a solo exhibition by Mary Klie on the subject of white privilege. The space will also debut a video installation by Christian Casas.
Also Friday, 934 Gallery opens Changing Room, an installation by Guen Montgomery.
And Saturday the 5th, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams is looking for help setting a world record for the number of people eating ice cream for breakfast. This is your fair warning to double up on exercise and make sure your big pants are clean.

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Still from Nikyatu Jusu's feature film Nanny

Still from Nikyatu Jusu's Nanny, courtesy of Sundance Institute

Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s Chameleon (A Visual Album), a project the multidisciplinary artist worked on at the Wex with Film/Video Studio Editor Alexis McCrimmon, is an official selection of the Slamdance Film Fest. It’s streamable through February 6 with a low-cost all-access pass.
Filmmaker Mark Pellington spoke about his latest The Severing, another Slamdance selection that’s intriguingly described as “Pina meets SAW.”
The big award winners at the past week’s Sundance Film Fest include the documentary Navalny and Nikyatu Jusu’s feature debut Nanny.
Kahlil Joseph is working with arthouse distributor A24 to turn his installation BLKNEWS into a feature film.
Monday, you can join a virtual conversation between Catherine Opie and writer Rebecca Solnit.
Tuesday, La Tanya S. Autry will take part in a virtual conversation on her curatorial project Beholding: Black World Making.
The entire archive of Marcel Duchamp is now available online.
MacArthur Fellow Dr. Nicole Fleetwood discussed the significance of art created by incarcerated people.
Fleetwood also won one of three 2022 fellowships granted by the Gordon Parks Foundation.
Theater artist Lars Jan, musician JJJJJerome Ellis, and choreographer Netta Yerushalmy are among the recipients of a 2022 USA Fellowship.
Charles Ray, Climate Changing contributor Sable Elyse Smith, and Wang Shui are on the list of artists tapped for the next Whitney Biennial.
Ray was also profiled in The New York Times this week.
Bjork shared how she’s been getting through the pandemic.
Here’s a look at how art classes are transforming medical education.
An interesting rebuke to the critique "I could've done that": A new study found that AI can identify an individual artist’s brushstrokes with remarkable accuracy.
The Smithsonian drafted its first institute-wide restitution policy for returning objects of cultural heritage.
Descendants of Pablo Picasso announced a sale of NFTs of a ceramic work by the artist. And then other members of the Picasso family put the kibosh on that plan.
The foodie and literary worlds let out a collective gasp at news that a huge shipment of cookbooks, including the newest from New York Times writer Melissa Clark, sank to the bottom of the ocean.
The great fashion designer Thierry Mugler passed at the age of 73.

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