Weekend reading: March 19 edition

Around Columbus

• Wex Executive Director Johanna Burton had an engaging conversation with Tim Fulton of Confluence Cast.
• Sunday, the Wex’s own DJ Trueskills will be joining DJ Mazeppa for an all-vinyl set of the best soundtracks ever at Studio 35 and over Radio 614.
• This coming week, we’re a partner on two Art+Feminism events with a focus on the comics community. Here’s a great piece on both.
• Tuesday, the Columbus Museum of Art will have a talk online with GCAC Individual Fellowship recipients Chaz O’Neil and Daric Gill.
• Artist Sarah Weinstock has opened a call for entries for a new June festival.
• Local artists Susan Schubert and Virginia Jenison have created a local component for an international initiative to paint frontline medical workers.
• The Greater Columbus Arts Council released its annual report.
• And GCAC head Tom Katzenmeyer won a major award.
• Artist Bryan Moss unveiled his collaboration with White Castle on a series of AR-enhanced drink cups.
• Painter and Returning Artist Guild cofounder Aimee Wissman was featured in Smithsonian Magazine.
• Artist Hakim Callwood has been traveling to make public art for his Tour de Mural and he’s posted the first video from his trip.
• And in worse news, the Thurber House is still struggling from the pandemic.

Around the globe

• A work by artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya created in response to the rise in anti-Asian rhetoric and violence in America will grace the cover of Time Magazine.
• Oscar nominations were announced this week. Big nominees include Mank, Minari (pictured at top of page), Nomadland, and Judas and the Black Messiah. It’s the first time ever that two women filmmakers were nominated for the Best Director prize: Chloe Zhao and Emerald Fennell. 
• Here’s a guide to catching up with the nominated features.
• Dear COTA: Here's something to consider for your bus shelters now that there’s local art of essential workers, please and thank you.
• Diana Haggag, a recent guest on Always Subject to Change from WOSU-TV and the Wex, has a new gig with the Mellon Foundation.
• Tuesday afternoon, as part of Melbourne Design Week, Frieze is hosting an online conversation about “Museums as Agents of Change.”
• The arts publication is also hosting a talk on Thursday between artist Amy Sillman and Frieze's editor-in-chief, Andrew Durbin.
• The New York Times uses tracks from artists including Aretha Franklin and Bad Bunny to propose that the digital format has changed music itself.
• We love this story that went viral about Yo Yo Ma.
• Next Friday, filmmaker Celia C. Peters will debut a new short as part of the Afrofuturism: Blackness Revisualized Film Festival.
• The explosive miniseries Allen vs. Farrow and other recent documentaries are having a major impact on popular opinion.
• The Association of Art Museum Directors will probably not be extending a controversial policy to allow museums to deaccession works to fund collection care.
• London’s National Portrait Gallery will be bringing more women to its walls.
• The Pritzker Prize has been awarded to Anne Location and Jean-Philippe Vassal for their work designing affordable spaces from existing structures.
• Maya Lin has redesigned the Neilson Library at Smith College.
• Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company has released a collection of resources and performances paying tribute to Black theater artists.
• There’s a new adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray for the social media age created in a collaboration between five London theaters, and it’s streaming through March 31.
• Choreographer Jeremy McQueen has produced a film that’s streaming through April 4 to reflect the experience of being caught in the criminal justice system.
• The Guardian shares a look inside some New York apartments we’d love to visit.
• Lastly, character actor and Alien star Yaphet Kotto passed away at the age of 81.