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Weekend Reading: March 15 Edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Mar 15, 2024

This week, a rave for Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema, opportunities for local writers, Venice Biennale updates, A24 in IMAX, the last word for Françoise Gilot, and lots more.

Top of page: Maya Mihindou, An Obscure Wound, 2024 (detail). Wall painting, dimensions variable. Commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts for Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema. Installation view at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

Around Ohio

A woman stands in front of a police car, looking forward and holding a painting of a girl.

Atin Mehra’s being michelle, courtesy of Art Possible Ohio

ICYMI, Columbus Underground writer Liz Trapp enjoyed a visit with our current exhibition, Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema.
This weekend and next, BalletMet presents Asian Voices at Davidson Theatre.
Artists have until April 1 to apply to Greater Columbus Arts Council for project support and the Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson residency.
And GCAC Director Tom Katzenmeyer asked community members to submit an application to review grant proposals.
Dream Clinic Project Space has an open call for submissions through April 29 for its upcoming exhibition X on the line.
Denise Rehg is stepping down as executive director of Columbus Symphony Orchestra.
Ohio ranks 15th in this national survey of arts vibrancy, but if you click through to the city data, Columbus isn’t in the list of Ohio locales driving this data.
Ohio also got a mention in this bracing opinion on generative AI from comedian Jesse Goldman.
Columbus weaver Scott Hanratty shared his process with Columbus Monthly.
Tuesday, local author Donte Woods-Spikes is speaking at McConnell Arts Center.
Thursday, Sue Harshe and Marcy Mays from Scrawl are doing a happy hour show at Natalie’s.
Next weekend, Ohio State Faculty Club has a Friday reception for its new solo show of watercolors by Cody Heichel.
Also Friday, ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus offers the feature being michelle at Urban Arts Space.
And Friday at Witchlab, you can celebrate the spring equinox with music, body puppetry, and belly dancing.
Next Saturday, Lost Weekend Records is celebrating turning legal with two stages of live music at Natalie’s.
Matt Swift will discuss his current exhibition at RAW Gallery on Saturday.
And planning ahead for you wordsmiths out there, Studio 35 is hosting the Hero’s Journey Workshop Saturday afternoon.
Saturday night, Streetlight Guild is opening its doors to make a quiet space to get some writing done.
Also, advance tickets are still available for a community-building event next Sunday at Wild Cat, presented by Columbus Women’s Writing Group.

Around the Globe

Four young people sit together in a car, smiling and cheering.

Bill and Turner Ross’s Gasoline Dreams, screening this weekend at the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look; courtesy of Department of Motion Pictures

Despite concerns to the contrary, the US House did not ban TikTok this week.
However, artists who are popular on TikTok, like hyperrealist painter Camila Salinas, are worried about future possibilities.
With art world eyes—including ours—turning toward Venice ahead of the Biennale, attention was paid to how the art of gold beating is slowly dying in the Italian city.
The Vatican announced that Maurizio Cattelan will be among the artists featured in its Venice pavilion.
William Kentridge will also debut new video works during the Biennale. Past works by Kentridge have been featured at the Wex, including The Refusal of Time in 2018.
Art authenticator Richard Polsky shared his expert opinion on how to go about committing art fraud.
Tina Rivers Ryan was named new editor in chief of Artforum.
Elizabeth Babcock was named the new inaugural director of the Smithsonian’s planned American Women’s History Museum.
And the Smithsonian American Art Museum named Dalila Scruggs the first to fill the newly created role of Augusta Savage Curator of African American Art.
The Children’s Art Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria earned attention for creating an income source for youth artists in the impoverished country.
In a move that’s perfect for Women’s History Month, the Picasso Museum in Paris is dedicating a room to the work of his former partner Françoise Gilot, whose life and career Picasso worked to destroy after she walked out on him.
Ohio natives Bill and Turner Ross are among the artists contributing new work to the Museum of Moving Image’s experimental First Look Festival, which wraps this weekend.
A new survey has found that two-thirds of Americans prefer watching films at home over going to the cinema.
Restoration experts are raising alarms about the preservation of digital-native cinema and TV.
Here’s a BTS on Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” performance at Sunday’s Oscars ceremony and its nod to Marilyn Monroe’s iconic number in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
A24 will rerelease films in its catalogue in IMAX in 2025. Titles include Ari Aster’s Hereditary and the Safdie brothers’ Uncut Gems.
Choreographer Raja Feather Kelly and Director Rachel Chavkin discussed their impending musical inspired by the life of painter Tamara de Lempicka.
Irish folk dancing has been getting more inclusive. (BTW, did you know that the Irish dance’s oldest governing body is officially trans-inclusive?)
Psychology Today looked into the evolution of human attraction to music.
This should come as no surprise to regular readers of Weekend Reading, but for the record: Library book bans hit an all-time high in 2023.
New York Times art critic and Jerry Saltz spouse Roberta Smith is retiring after 32 years.
Los Angeles-based Korean American artist Yong Soon Min died at the age of 70.
Choreographer and accessibility advocate Jess Curtis also passed away.

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