Weekend reading: March 18 edition

Around Columbus

• Saturday night, Skylab has an opening for Max Adrian’s solo show Playscape.
• Sunday afternoon, the King Arts Complex opens a show of work by Aminah Robinson Fellow Wendy Kendrick.
• Thurber House’s Adult Writing Workshops kick off Monday.
• The Fuse Factory has moved into its new home at the Cultural Arts Center.
• No Place Gallery put its current exhibition online: Insignificant Patch of Earth by Benedict Scheuer.
• Nikos Rutkowski opened a show of mask-inspired work at Contemporary Art Matters.
• According to researchers at Ohio State, people can be trained to be creative.
• Ohio State PhD candidate Dareen Hussein won this year’s Gender and Feminism Caucus Graduate Student writing prize for an essay on Assia Djebar’s The Zerda or the Songs of Forgetting, which screened last March as part of a film series Hussein co-organized at the Wex.
• WOSU Public Media started a new season of Drawing with Mr. J., the video series for kids featuring national award-winning local educator Jon Juravich.
• Dick's Den will soon host an Art-o-mat vending machine,  following in the footsteps of Franklinton dark arts emporium Witchlab.
• Wednesday, Bexley Library hosts poet Barbara Fant in conversation with Maggie Smith.
• Thursday, Ohio State History of Art Chair Karl Whittington and History of Art alum Catherine Walworth will have a virtual chat about what it’s like to work as a museum curator.
• And next Saturday, Covered Dish and Chatterbox Comedy offer a night of comedy and burlesque at The Vanderelli Room to support Ohio Name Change Microgrants.

Around the globe

• The big news this week was the stabbing of two front-of-house workers at the Museum of Modern Art by a patron who’d been turned away from a screening of Bringing Up Baby for two prior outbursts. The alleged assailant, 60 year-old Gary Cabana, was arrested Tuesday.
• Oh, there was also a small fire at the Whitney the other day.
• Superstar graphic designer Tracy Ma will give a virtual lecture Tuesday night.
• West African architect Francis Kéré won the Pritzker Prize.
• Mexican architect Frida Escobedo will design the Met’s new contemporary wing.
• Data from the National Endowment for the Arts broke down the economic impact in 2020 of COVID on the arts and culture sector.
• The Guardian questions how the art world will handle the loss of Russian Oligarch money.
• The co-chairs for this year’s Met Gala will be Regina King, Blake Lively, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Ryan Reynolds.
• Ukrainian gallerists Katia Vozianova and Oleksandr Shchelushchenko have been working to move artworks out of Kyiv.
• Shepard Fairey, Chuck Sperry, and Erin Yoshi are among the artists contributing work inspired by the Equal Rights Amendment to raise funds for the grassroots nonprofit Vote Equality.
• Rashid Johnson, Julie Mehretu, Adam Pendleton, and Ellen Gallagher are working to save the childhood home of Nina Simone.
• Filmmaker Jane Campion followed some smart words in response to Sam Elliot’s criticism of Year of the Dog with some thoughtless words directed at Venus and Serena Williams.
• Amazon officially acquired MGM this week. Here’s what the merger could mean for film lovers.
• Here’s a piece on how anti-CRT laws being considered or passed in 36 states (including Ohio) may mean no more in-school screenings of films like Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave and Ava DuVernay’s Selma.
• Here’s a new interview with dance great William Forsythe.
• And one with Barbara Kruger.
• Lastly, actor William Hurt died at the age of 72.