Weekend Reading: March 22 Edition

Around Ohio

• Hanif Abdurraqib’s latest book. There’s Always Next Year, was released this week with lots of local celebration. Hanif joins us in May for Pick and Reels, a three-film series of basketball classics curated by the author.
• Miranda Inscho, a member of our fantastic Visitor Experience team, recently spoke with the Columbus Dispatch about roller derby.
• Denison University’s weeklong new art festival TUTTI kicks off on March 22.
• This week, the Greater Columbus Arts Council announced 15 mural assistance grants for area artists.
• Next Friday, Ohio State's Fawcett Center hosts Trans-cending, a night of storytelling around trans empowerment.
• The 47th annual Ohio State Jazz Festival wraps up this weekend.
•  A new exhibition of work by David Michael Butler opens at Streetlight Guild on March 29.
• Opera Columbus has announced its new season.
• Our next door neighbors at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum announced Nancy Fest, a celebration of the iconic Ernie Bushmiller comic strip.
• This week, the Ohio Arts Council has announced the approval of 122 grants for artists and arts organizations around Ohio.
• Beloved Columbus record store Lost Weekend celebrates its 21st anniversary this weekend with a night full of music.
• We want to hear from you! We’re taking part in this year’s American Alliance of Museum survey and would love your feedback. Take the survey now (should take about 10 minutes, tops).

Around the Globe

• Check out this article from The New York Times on the first African movie musical, Med Hondo’s West Indies—showing at the Wex next Wednesday, March 27th.
• While you’re at it, learn more about Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Japanese composer whose last performance was captured on film, also showing here at the Wex in April.
• RogerEbert.com offered a survey of highlights from last week’s SXSW Film, including the scifi drama Omni Loop.
• Love Lies Bleeding’s Katy O’Brian reflects on her journey from Indiana cop to starring opposite Kristen Stewart.
• IndieWire lists some lesser known tidbits about The Matrix to celebrate the film’s 25th anniversary.
• Here’s why Kanopy may emerge from the streaming service consolidation phenomenon untouched.
• Joana Vicente, CEO of the Sundance Institute, is stepping down from her role.
• London’s Eurovision Screening Party was canceled due to Israel’s participation in the song contest.
• More than a dozen authors withdraw from PEN Festival in an open letter protesting PEN America’s response to the war in Gaza.
• After 34 years, the largest art theft case has produced some oddities, but not one of the 13 stolen works.
• A second man was charged with the 2005 theft of Dorothy’s iconic ruby slippers.
• Ceramic artist Toshiko Takaezu is gaining posthumous recognition from former students and the art world at large.
• Chiara Camoni highlights the contemporary properties of ceramics through tactile sculptures in her new Milan exhibition.
• The reconstruction of Notre-Dame is nearly finished, slated for completion by the end of this year.
• Patrick Moore, director of the Warhol Museum, is stepping down after 7 years.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art just hired its first head of provenance research, former Sotheby’s vice chairman Lucian Simmons.
• An annual Art Market report shows that more people are buying art online.
• And, according to a report from The Art Newspaper, international museum attendance has recovered to pre-COVID visitor numbers.
• Kirsha Kaechele’s women-only exhibition at Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art sparks a lawsuit from a man denied entry.
• This is how artists are repurposing dead pointe shoes to keep them out of landfills.
• Neil Young and Joni Mitchell return their discographies to Spotify after two years.
• Colin Greenwood, bassist of Radiohead, announced an upcoming photography book dedicated to the band.
• A U.K. metal detectorist admitted to planting Medieval coins on a farm in Herefordshire.
• This 300-year-old thimble found in a field near Carew Castle, however, is legit.
• Performance art trailblazer Joan Jonas gets a massive MoMA retrospective.
• Getty photo agency says a royal portrait was doctored—no, not the Kate Middleton one. Another one.
• A sale of Coraline author Neil Gaiman’s collection collects $1 million, with some proceeds going to the Hero Initiative and the Authors League Fund.
• The Banksy mural revealed last weekend has already been vandalized.
• Sharon Stone swapped acting for art, with work on display in Berlin and coming to San Francisco in April.
• Two people who visited MoMA last weekend said they were barred from entering with a Keffiyeh.
• The Louvre received a bomb threat targeting the ‘Mona Lisa.’
• Shigeichi Negishi, inventor of karaoke, dies at 100.
• Byron Janis, one of the most notable classical pianists of the 20th-century, passed at 95.
• David Seidler, Oscar-winning writer of ‘The King’s Speech,’ dies at 86.
• Yong Soon Min, a Korean-American contemporary artist whose work navigated Asian-American identity, passed at the age 70.