Weekend reading: March 26 edition

Around Ohio

• ICYMI, there’s a new episode of Always Subject to Change out this week with Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Dr. Mark Lomax II.
• If you need something to go with your morning cereal, watch old episodes of the animated series Life with Louie with folks from Found Footage Festival and special guest, Caitlin McGurk from the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
• Or you can check out the Northeast Ohio-based biennial The New Now, juried by Riffe Gallery Director Cat Sheridan. 
• On Wednesday, Healing Broken Circles hosts an online storytelling event in collaboration with Returning Artists Guild.
• Tickets are now on sale for the Cleveland International Film Festival, which kicks off April 7 with the opening night film Together Together by filmmaker Nikole Beckwith.
• Paloma Martinez-Cruz, Associate Professor of Latino/a Cultural and Literary Studies at Ohio State and a past lecturer at the Wex, has been awarded a 2020 Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award. This is the same prize that’s supported our ongoing writing partnership with the Department of Dance.
• Columbus student Monserrat Tlahuel-Flores was named Ohio’s Poetry Out Loud champion for 2021.
• CCAD presented its new strategic plan.
• The Columbus Metropolitan Library was featured in this story from The Atlantic about libraries that are addressing digital inequity.
• Here’s a chance to get to know Bradford Kounta, Executive Director of the Lincoln Theatre. 
• And here’s a piece from the Columbus Dispatch on the new PBS documentary about past Wex residency artist Twyla Tharp.
• Lastly, it’s with a heavy heart that we share news of the death of Matthew Bush (pictured at top of page). A beloved and passionate film fan who was a staple at Columbus’ sci-fi and horror marathons, Matt was a one-man promotional machine who always had a band or event flier at the ready for friends and whose social feeds were consistently full of enthusiastic calls to support local arts programming, including Wex events. If you picked up a Wex calendar or flier anytime in recent years, there’s a fair chance that Matt dropped it wherever you found it. We join his family and many friends in grieving his loss and celebrating his life.

Around the globe

• Gia Kourlas of the New York Times loves our current presentation of Netta Yerushalmy’s Distant Dance Demonstration.
• Torkwase Dyson made Cultured’s list of five Black abstract artists you should know.
• This should be fun: Tuesday evening, Jennifer Reeder will get into a virtual conversation with Miranda July.
• Here’s the latest in COVID-safe moviegoing protocols.
• Here’s a love letter to X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene, inspired by a new documentary about her that made its debut at SXSW.
• Hal Ashby’s cult favorite Harold and Maude is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Here’s an exploration into its enduring popularity.
• John Waters is joining the cast of the Netflix series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
• MUBI asked Wong Kar-Wai five questions.
• Here’s a look back at the year in masks.
• Mark your calendar: there’s a show of Ray Johnson’s photography coming to New York next June.
• Can you sell an NFT of another artist’s work and get away with it? That and other burning rights questions are answered here.
• Think we’re past the pandemic? The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company can say with experience that you should think again.
• Do you believe that students should have equal access to arts education? Sign this.
• Actress Jessica Walter passed away at the age of 80. Here she is sharing the stories behind some of her most memorable moments on Arrested Development.
• Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier also passed this week at 79.
• And the world lost actor and poet Craig muMs Grant.
• And Beverly Cleary, creator of beloved characters like Ramona Quimby and Ralph S. Mouse, died at the age of 104.