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Weekend reading: March 20 edition

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Mar 20, 2020

gray "Not All Heroes Wear Capes" graphic T-shirt by Homage

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Around Columbus

Sigourney Weaver wearing a space suit in a scene from Ridley Scott's film Alien

GCAC has created an emergency grant fund to help artists get through the age of physical distancing.
The arts council is also keeping a running list of local virtual art experiences.
Middle West Spirits is making hand sanitizer for first responders and the homeless.
Homage designed a fundraiser tee for Huckleberry House inspired by the amazing Dr. Amy Acton. (see lead image for the design)
Local artists & Wex friends April Sturkey Sunami and Christopher Sunami made a fun movie with their kids during their first full week home from school.
And in other new builds, there's a website collecting all the delivery and takeout options in town to help hard-hit local restaurants.
For group activities, the Ohio Science Fiction Marathon, the brainchild of Wex projectionist emeritus Bruce Bartoo, is holding a live-tweet tonight at 8 PM of Ridley Scott's 1979 classic Alien. It's in lieu of the actual marathon, which has been postponed.
And the new space Secret Studio is doing an all-day livestream tomorrow of local musicians, starting at noon. (March 21 Update: the livestream has been canceled out of an abundance of caution but the Secret Studio folks have shared tips on how to do your own at home via Columbus Alive.)

Around the globe

Vintage schematic illustration for a mechanical frog toy from the National Archives of the United States

Patent for a mechanical frog toy (1901) (courtesy of the Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, National Archives of the United States)

Google has a roundup of 2500 virtual museum experiences.
Need a more curated list of suggestions? The Washington Post's Sebastian Smee has one.
You can also try your hand at curating your own show of British art.
Or take in a weekly artist Q&A happening every Saturday afternoon on Instagram.
Another suggestion for staying in: take a university art course online.
This one's for a whole family: a trove of downloadable coloring books from museums. (Smithsonian Magazine has even more options here.)
Read up on the African American art shaping the 21st century.
Or check out a Guardian piece about how artists in earlier centuries have handled outbreaks.
Also from that outlet: a list of readers' suggestions for books to bring you joy.
Here's news on what's streaming from the theater world.
Dance Magazine checks in on how dance companies are handling the current crises.
Variety checks in with Wex retrospective subject/Oscar winner/work horse Julia Reichert.
Film site Cinematary recaps the blast that was had at this year's Cinema Revival fest at the Wex in February.
Artforum film critic Amy Taubin offers suggestions on anxiety-fueled films that might just calm viewer's nerves.
And if you need something lighter, join the critics of the New York Times for a weekend viewing party of Top Gun.

We'll meet you back here next Friday afternoon for more interesting links.