Weekend reading: May 14 edition

Around Ohio

• Ohio Citizens for the Arts is asking citizens to contact state leaders and ask them to support a $50 million in one-time relief funding to the arts sector.
• Saturday night, Mixed Bag Studios hosts a memorial art show for Michael Hodges.
• Sunday morning, The Fuse Factory offers a virtual workshop on audio collage techniques.
• Jazz Arts Group has a new virtual concert with drummer-composer Jerome Jennings available through May 31.
• Comedian Dustin Meadows’s collaborative (and very loose) Jaws remake is now available online.
• DANA released a video for their new track “Blueteeth.”
• Columbus arts and entertainment venues provided an update on reopening plans following Governor Mike DeWine’s announcement that Ohio’s COVID restrictions will be lifted June 2.
• Picnic with the Pops is coming back this summer.
• Thursday night, you can join Thurber House for its Thurber Prize event with nominees Dave Barry, Kira Jane Buxton, and Damon Young.
• Next Friday, FRONT International and ThirdSpace Action Lab hosts an online listening party with British jazztronica duo Blue Lab Beats.
• And Ohio History Connection will open a drive-thru exhibition of more than 40 giant dinosaurs.

Around the globe

• Saturday night, RZA’s 36 Cinema streaming service is presenting the 1982 hip hop essential Wild Style with live commentary.
• YouTube has $100 million to pay filmmakers to populate its new Shorts platform with Tik Tok-y content.
• Barry Jenkins talked about the personal journey that came with making his TV adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.
• The filmmaker also debuted a powerful short doc: The Gaze.
• In other essential viewing, Kings of the Sky, the 2004 Deborah Stratman doc about a Uyghur tightrope artist (which was supported by the Wex Film/Video Studio), is streaming for a limited time.
• The dance doc Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters is coming to theaters this summer.
• New York City has launched a WPA-style initiative to put artists back to work.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art has installed a plaque on its facade acknowledging the Lenape People, who were driven from its land.
• And Tuesday through Thursday, The Met will host a series of live and virtual conversations about how museums engage with the public on a local and global level.
• New York’s Museum of Chinese in America is coming back to life after the twin tragedies of the pandemic and a serious fire.
• Christopher K. Ho has been named Executive Director of the Hong Kong-based Asia Art Archive.
• Actor Phylicia Rashad has been named Dean of Fine Arts at Howard University.
• An international group of artists and scholars including Anish Kapoor is calling on the government of India to halt redevelopment of New Dehli in light of the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the country.
• Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has denounced her country’s government for using her work in a propaganda campaign to discredit anti-poverty protesters.
• Author Carmen Maria Machado addressed critics who want to ban her memoir about an abusive lesbian relationship from high school classes’ recommended reading lists.
• The Search for Extraterrestrial Life Institute (SETI) has awarded its first artists residency to Mexico City research studio Interspecifics.
• Here’s an interview with the new hosts of NPR’s hit podcast Invisibilia.
• Roxane Gay and Jasmyn Ward have launched book clubs.
• A Maryland park originally named for the man who donated the land a century ago under the condition that it be restricted to “Caucasian inhabitants only” is being renamed for African American art historian David C. Driskell.
• Here’s a piece about disabled movement artists exploring the creative possibilities of prosthetics.
• Graphic designer Marianne de Groot-Pons has responded to the environmental impact of disposable face masks by designing rice paper masks embedded with flower seeds that will bloom as they biodegrade.
• This is handy: an explainer for the different immersive Van Gogh exhibitions touring the country.
• Brood X cicadas are starting to emerge, but you can catch them anytime in historic Chinese art.
• Here’s Margaret Atwood on the prescient genius of Laurie Anderson’s recently rereleased 1982 album Big Science.
• Tina Turner, Kraftwerk, and Gil Scott Heron are among the new inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
• Lastly, veteran actor Norman Lloyd passed away at the impressive age of 106.