Weekend Reading: March 10 Edition

Around Columbus

• ICYMI, we talked to composer and former Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Brian Harnetty about his work ahead of the education program Forest Listening Rooms.
• Saintseneca’s Zac Little has some new songs.
• So do Betty Machete and the Angry Cougars.
• Monday, the Drexel continues its Martial March series with The Legend of Drunken Master.
• Tuesday, 934 Gallery hosts an International Pi Day Celebration.
• Local photographer Brielle Jolie Smith caught the attention of Vogue.
• Scott Woods pointed to Jeopardy! as an example of why Black Studies are needed.
• There’s a new arts and entertainment venue coming to downtown: The Kee.
• We were saddened to hear the news of Sandy Wood’s passing at the age of 84. The real estate developer was a pivotal force in turning the Short North into an arts district.

Around the globe

• Everything Everywhere All at Once picked up more awards at the Independent Spirits.
• That film’s venerable costar, 94 year-old James Hong, is enjoying a moment in the limelight.
• Here’s a preview of Sunday’s Oscars ceremony.
• In the Best Actress category, Cate Blanchett could be losing ground to Michelle Yeoh going into Oscar night, but the band Sparks has given her a reason to dance.
• Composer Volker Bertelmann discussed his work on the haunting score for another Oscar frontrunner, All Quiet on the Western Front.
• And Best Original Song nominee David Byrne talked to 60 Minutes.
• Following major theater chains adopting a tiered ticket structure, Vulture called out what multiplexes really need to focus on: bad projection. (A problem you don’t have to worry about at the Wex.)
• And on the heels of our Cinema Revival fest, The Guardian wrote about the need to focus on film preservation.
• There’s been a leadership shakeup at The Whitney.
• British architect David Chipperfield won the 2023 Pritzker Prize.
• Carrie Mae Weems became the first Black woman to win the Hasselblad Photography Prize.
• Ontario police made eight arrests in what’s being called the “biggest art fraud in world history.”
• Authorities at Idaho’s Lewis-Clark State College are under fire for censoring a show about reproductive rights.
• Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova is curating a Sotheby’s auction to support reproductive health care.
• Artnet offered a cautionary tale against using ChatGPT for art history research.
• A new study finds that neuroscience plays a role in how we respond to artworks.
• Dance Magazine caught up with danceLogic, a Philadelphia program that uses movement to introduce girls of color to careers in STEAM.
• Choreographer Kelly Garfield has a new work that combines her work as an artist with her work as an end-of-life trauma chaplain.
• Performer Jo Brook wrote about the roadblocks to full inclusion in theater for people who are hard of hearing.
• Hyperallergic considered the difference between a “working” artist and a “living” artist.
• B-movie legend Bert I. Gordon passed away at 100.
• Actor Robert Blake died at 89.
• Rafael Viñoly, the architect who designed the glass-topped addition to the Cleveland Museum of Art, died at the age of 78.
• And printmaker Lou Stovall passed away at the age of 86.