Weekend reading: May 15 edition

Around Ohio

• The Cleveland Museum of Art has become one of the first institutions in the country to announce a plan to reopen. They’re expecting to welcome visitors again June 30.
• Streetlight Guild is still taking it slow, so the space is offering a fancy 3D presentation of a beautiful new show of Prince-inspired quilts.
• Emma Brown, the artist whose work has been on the walls of 934 Gallery throughout the shutdown, will host an artist workshop Saturday to create your own “life resume.” 
• Ohio Prison Arts Conference's weekly OPAC Radio event next Friday at 11 AM has Returning Artist Guild cofounder Aimee Wissman talking with Nicole Fleetwood, author of the book Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration. (We're keeping fingers crossed that the accompanying postponed exhibition at MoMA featuring Wissman's work will be rescheduled soon.)
• A new coloring book featuring work by local artists, the brainchild of Short North gallerist Michelle Brandt, was distributed for free to Columbus school kids through free lunch distribution sites around the district.
• Drexel Theatre may be closed, but you can wear its marquee on your chest. 
• Columbus Monthly posted its interview with Julia Reichert following her visit to the Wex for the 2020 Lambert Family Lecture.
• Ohio History Connection is using its giant parking lot for a free monthly drive-in series honoring Ohio native Steven Spielberg. (The first screening, ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, is already sold out.)
• Columbus filmmaker Nikki Swift is sharing Facebook Live talks between local artists and arts leaders through the series Art Tells a Story: Let it Tell Yours.
• The Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo announced this year’s SPACE Prize winners.
• The annual Doo Dah Parade has been moved to September.
• Ohio Art League is getting its members together Wednesday for an online meeting.
  
   

Around the globe

• With Upstate New York opening before New York City, Dia: Beacon is developing its reopening plan.
• And here’s how museums in Europe are handling reopening, and how art lovers are responding.
• Meanwhile, biennales in Paris and South Korea are being postponed.
• And the Cannes Film Festival is officially off the calendar.
• Art in America noticed our virtual copresentation of Stanya Kahn: No Go Backs. It’s been extended through May 24.
• More than two dozen mayors around the country signed a letter to Congress asking for more funding for the arts in the next federal stimulus package.
• In the latest merger of personal protection and avant-garde fashion, DEVO is selling a version of its trademark  “energy dome” with face shield attachment (pictured at top of page).
• MoMA has put together a great curated list of past R&D Salons with current events in mind, on subjects ranging from protest to white male culture, to angels (the latter with a contribution from Wings of Desire director Wim Wenders).
• Artists including Edgar Arceneaux and Mia Rosenthal have shared their creative methods for educating their kids at home.
• Visual AIDS has launched a new fundraising initiative, “Not Over,” that presents past work by artists such as Jack Smith.
• Hyperallergic is looking for LGBTQ art workers to feature on its site during Pride month.
• There’s a new app that can virtually transform your environment into famous works of art.
• The Washington Post offers an introduction to net art.
• If you liked Matt Wolf’s documentary Spaceship Earth (now playing in our virtual screening room), check out a live Q&A with the filmmaker this Sunday at 8 PM EDT.
• Relevant to our discussion of The Last Dance, Sotheby’s is auctioning off a signed pair of 1985 game-worn Air Jordans.
• Saturday at 4 PM EDT, original Muppet performers including Frank Oz and Dave Goelz will have a livestreamed conversation about Jim Henson and his work.
• Film Comment has a new piece on African film legend Med Hondo.
• There’s also an essay that looks at Zoom and other tech that tries to mimic the collective moviegoing experience.
• Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul has written a letter about the future of moviegoing.
• Britain’s Lung Dart created a mix of memorable film music for its most recent set for NTS Live.
• There’s a new oral history of the century’s best action film: Mad Max: Fury Road.
• The New York Public Library has acquired the archive of choreographer Martha Graham.
• Artist Maurizio Cattelan has tapped Maya Lin, Tacita Dean, Iggy Pop, David Byrne, Takashi Murakami and many others for Bedtime Stories, a new audio series in which contributors read their favorite texts.
• Tauba Auerbach has a new book.
• From the Artforum archives: writer Greil Marcus on the legendary Little Richard, who passed away last weekend.
• Critic Jerry Saltz opens up about living, eating, coffee habits, and coping during coronavirus. 
• Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hisham Matar writes of two artworks that ask the question: “What world will we find on the other side of this?”
• Lastly, for this weekend’s living room dance party, a legendary Prince concert from his 1985 Purple Rain tour is streaming on YouTube through Sunday.