Weekend reading: March 25 edition

Around Ohio

• Wex Learning & Public Practice Director Dionne Custer Edwards will join Jackie Calderone of TRANSITARTS and other distinguished panelists for a webinar on the power of community arts Monday night.
• But first, Sunday afternoon, Secret Studio has an opening reception for artist Tracy Greenwalt.
• Then on Wednesday, the music and art space has a virtual Creative Accountability Workshop with artists Lydia Loveless and Vanessa Jean Speckman.
• Also in Wednesday options, of which there are many, The Billy is hosting a virtual symposium on “Global Comics and the Rise of Manga”…
• Local critic and filmmaker Hope Madden is having a launch party for her debut novel, Roost…
• Maroon Arts Group and CAPA present excerpts and conversations from the 2018 choreopoem project Inside the Riot at the Lincoln…
• And Columbus State Library hosts a virtual talk with past Wex Film/Video Studio artist Celia C. Peters.
• For her dissertation project, Ohio State Ph.D candidate Erin Hoppe has a call out to nonprofit arts administrators for artifacts that reflect the work you do.
• Ohio State Alumni Magazine has a fun craft project suggestion: make your own kite.
• Dance Magazine dropped a new interview with Bebe Miller.
• The McConnell Arts Center has released a short film documenting the Lance Johnson exhibition Post No Ills.
• Looking ahead to next weekend, if you’re planning a trip up north to the Cleveland International Film Festival, keep an eye out for Wex projectionist Rachael Barbash. She’s on loan to CIFF to help make sure the movies run smoothly.
• Meredith Morrison opens a show of work at 934 Gallery Friday.
• Ambient artist Michael Anderson, aka DREKKA, will perform at the Old First Presbyterian Church next Saturday night.
• Lastly, beloved Columbus fiber artist Sue Cavanaugh passed away this week from pancreatic cancer at the age of 73, and she wrote a beautiful sendoff.

Around the globe

• The Oscars are Sunday. Here’s how to watch. And here are some predictions of who might walk away with an Academy Award.
• Current Best Picture favorite CODA is being adapted into a stage musical.
• Wednesday, the Liszt Institute New York will offer a free stream (with advance registration) of István Szabó’s 1965 film Age of Illusions. It’s part of a series about the Hungarian New Wave.
• There’s a new Wordle spinoff for film lovers.
• The New York Times Magazine interviewed John Waters ahead of the release of his first novel, Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance.
• Gender Queer author Maia Kobabe spoke about the value of letting kids read material that makes parents uncomfortable.
• Jenenne Whitfield will be the next director of Baltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum.
• But as more women of color are being hired in the arts sector, Artnet asked why some Black women arts leaders are leaving high-level positions.
• Russian forces have reportedly bombed the G12 Art School in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, where hundreds of civilians had taken shelter.
• The city’s Kuindzhi Art Museum has also been reported destroyed.
• JR traveled to Ukraine to collaborate on a massive statement work about the war.
• Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company is taking steps forward after the sudden accidental death of its founder in December.
• Big congrats to past Wex guests Back to Back for winning the Ibsen award, one of the biggest theater prizes in the world.
• Zaha Hadid Architects is designing a city in the Metaverse.
• Curbed peppered Robert A.M. Stern with 21 questions.
• Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF, passed away at the age of 74.