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Weekend Reading: March 17 Edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Mar 17, 2023

A comic book panel depicting Rosetta Tharpe. Tharpe’s name is spelled out in blocky text on a field of dark, swirling, abstract designs. The central figure is a Black woman in a purple dress, holding an electric guitar.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe in Raeghan Buchanan's The Secret History of Black Punk: Record Zero, available at the Wexner Center Store

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A man with long, dark, slightly graying hair that’s pulled back in a bun is shot from the shoulders up. He’s in a space with square white columns rising up from a body of water behind him. He’s in a dark suit with black t-shirt. He’s looking off in the distance to his left.

Lemi Ponifasio photo by MAU, image courtesy of the artist.

We're extending a big Wex welcome to the newly named director of the Columbus Museum of Art: Brooke A. Minto.
Tuesday, Greater Columbus Arts Council is hosting its latest Arts Happy Hour.
Tuesday at The Billy, Raeghan Buchanan will discuss & sign copies of her book The Secret History of Black Punk: Record Zero.
Wednesday brings a new creativity and writing workshop at Secret Studio.
And Saturday, narrative art icon Chris Ware will be at The Billy with Dr. Neil Cohn to discuss comics and cognitive science.
Rick Sanford spoke to upcoming Wex guests Tarta Relena for Pencilstorm.
Then he had a fun convo with another upcoming artist, Lemi Ponifasio, for Columbus Underground.
Columbus Monthly gave some much-deserved love to local treasure Richard Duarte Brown.
Matter News covered some of the scuttlebutt around changes afoot at 400 West Rich and adjacent art spaces.
Mel Sealy talked up her new book, Read All Over.
For its next edition of Artist Commune March 31, Urban Arts Space is inviting the public to show its work in a gallery setting. Here’s info on how to participate in the pop-up exhibition.
Art for Life is also accepting submissions now for its October fundraiser.
Rivet Gallery is returning to Columbus with a shop inside Blockfort.
Columbus visual and tattoo artist Katharine Hadron Collider shared a stunning work from her residency at Chateau Orquevaux in France. You can find one of her earlier projects, the art book Tornado Dreams, at the Wex Store.
Short North Stage shared its 2023–24 season.
WOSU dropped a new Drawing with Mr. J, with a lesson on making monsters.
Karen Kao’s “Fish Tales” won Kenyon Review’s 2022 nonfiction contest.

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Two men sit in a darkened screening room. They’re looking away from the camera, at the screen between them that holds side-by-side images showing the differences between pre-restoration and post-restoration versions of the film Rebel Without a Cause.

CBS Sunday Morning's Ben Tracy watches Rebel Without a Cause with Martin Scorsese (image via YouTube)

Everything Everywhere All at Once cleaned up at the Oscars. Not everyone was happy about the decision, including writers at The Washington Post, who argued that the win reflected a long history of the Academy getting things wrong.
But this is our favorite Oscar post-mortem piece: “5 Sarah Polley films to watch if you want to honor a great Canadian artist and have your day absolutely fucking ruined.”
Ty Burr sat down with Slate film critic Dana Stevens to discuss the incredible and still-timely 2007 drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days for Burr’s series Classics of the New Millennium.
Found Footage Fest fans, you’ll be happy to learn that there’s a “Chop & Steele” doc on the way.
Hyperallergic wrote up the restoration of Cauleen Smith’s 1998 film Drylongso, which is coming to the Wex in early June.
Jonathan Demme's Talking Heads film Stop Making Sense will debut in a restored 4K form later this year.
CBS Sunday Morning did a great piece Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation and the importance of film restoration.
The show also took a tour of the Baltimore Museum of Art with John Waters.
In other Scorsese-related news, his 1977 film New York, New York is being adapted for Broadway.
In response to a new law targeting drag performances, the male members of Yo La Tengo donned women’s clothes for a show in Nashville.
Here’s the winner of this year’s Dance Your Ph.D. contest.
NPR covered the efforts of Pascale Sablan, a past Glimcher Lecturer, to increase Black representation in the architecture field.
A new study finds that the arts contribute $1 trillion to the US GDP.
Brazil’s Ministry of Culture is working on a response to the January 8 riots and the damage of artworks in the attack: an initiative currently called the “Museum of Democracy.”
Nancy Yao will be the inaugural director of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
What’s up with the long-awaited Lucas Museum?
Frieze New York announced its exhibitors for 2023.
The “craftivist” who gifted a handmade snowflake to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis shared her story.
Feeling salty? You can give any Google Map location the finger thanks to a new project from Ai Weiwei.
Here’s a look at the FBI’s busy art crime team.
Sculptor Phyllida Barlow passed away at the age of 78. Harper’s Bazaar shared an interview with Barlow from its archives as a tribute.

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