Weekend reading: March 11 edition

Around Ohio

• ICYMI, this year’s fascinating Director’s Dialogue on Art & Social Change, 400Forward, is available to stream.
• Saturday, Staci Friedman and Kate Morgan have a show opening at Hayley Gallery.
• Gallery 731 in Olde Towne East has a new show opening Saturday, too: Radical Acts of Love.
• Arts Midwest launched Filling the Well, a new podcast that hopes to keep the creative juices of artists and arts leaders flowing.
• Artforum had good things to say about the new book by Ohio State Associate Professor Carmen Winant.
• The Akron Art Museum had a visit from an arsonist last week.
• Continue your Women’s Month celebrations with this video produced by the College of Arts & Sciences about the socialist origins of International Women’s Day.
• Wednesday through Sunday, ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus will stream Crutch, a doc about artist and skateboarder Bill Shannon.
• Looking ahead to Thursday night, the Columbus Museum of Art screens the documentary Frida Kahlo.
• And since the opening reception was canceled due to weather, 934 Gallery will have a closing reception for the Guen Montgomery solo show Changing Room next Saturday afternoon.

Around the globe

• Monday, Bioethics foundation The Hastings Center will host a virtual discussion with artists and advocates on disability and family making.
• Here’s a story on Missing Movies, a group working to make films stuck in rights or restoration limbo available. Members include Wex friends Dennis Doros and Amy Heller of Milestone Films and titles include Mary Harron’s I Shot Andy Warhol.
• The Glasgow Film Festival and other arts presenters around the world are grappling with whether to continue presenting work by Russian artists.
• Ukrainian artist Taras Shevchenko will be the subject of the next touring show from the creators of Immersive van Gogh, with proceeds to benefit charities doing humanitarian work in Ukraine.
• Not into immersive? Here a list of organizations selling photography prints to raise funds for Ukraine.
• You’ll be seeing a lot more of Robert Rauschenberg’s work in galleries soon.
• Hauser & Wirth awarded $700,000 in grants to organizations including the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Asia Art Archive.
• Cecilia Vicuña and Katarina Fritsch won the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
• British painter Vanessa Bowman is the latest artist to share her story of having art stolen by a fast fashion giant.
• Here’s a profile of Met Museum security guard-turned-salary-focused artist Emily Lemakis.
• The American Folk Art Museum has acquired the archive of the defunct art charity Healing Arts Initiative.
• Art-loving travel buffs: pencil in May 5–12 for a trip to the new collaborative event New York Art Week.
• Dance and film lovers, you don’t have to go anywhere to enjoy the new Constructed Sight Dance Film Festival, which launches this weekend.
• Differences in response between the Blue Note Jazz Club and Carnegie Hall were held up as examples to pose the question, should cultural institutions follow along as cities and states ease Covid restrictions?
• The Nation’s Barry Schwabsky decided it’s a good moment to consider another question: Why do we even have museums?
• The Humana Festival of New American Plays will not have a 2022 edition, touting a new, year-round approach to its work instead.
• Here’s a look at how outdated copyrighting laws are doing nothing to protect choreographers who share their work digitally.
• The literature and arts journal Sequestrum is currently accepting submissions for an upcoming issue centered on “optimism.” Deadline is April 15.
• Last and least, legislators in Idaho are working on a law that will charge librarians with a crime for lending “harmful materials” to minors, but the legislators haven’t quite worked out what “harmful” means.