Weekend Reading: May 17 Edition

Around Columbus

• The Dispatch previewed our summer exhibitions from Jonas N.T. Becker and Tanya Lukin Linklater, coming your way with an opening celebration May 31.
• Sunday, the Andyman’s Treehouse takeover of Little Rock concludes with appearances from Marcy Mays, Willie Phoenix, and DJ Citizen Dorian.
• Tuesday, Urban Arts Space opens FREEQUENCY, an Afrofuturism show curated by Iyana Hill and April Sunami, and a reception happens next Saturday.
• Also Tuesday, author Harlan Coben will speak at Ohio Dominican.
• And Transit Arts is hosting an open mic Tuesday.
• The lineup for this year’s CAPA Summer Movie Series is out. Series premieres include Pee Wee’s Big Adventure and Thelma & Louise.
• Applications are now open to contemporary dancers and choreographers for the HATCH Summer Residency Program, available through Ohio State’s Department of Dance. Deadline is May 31.
• Matter talked with Micah Schnabel about his new album, The Clown Watches the Clock.
• In between releasing a new book, supporting it with a tour, and visiting the Wex for the basketball film series he curated in connection with it, Hanif Abdurraqib conducted this amazing interview with Andre 3000.
• Oakland, California artist Warith Taha was named the next Aminah Robinson Residency recipient.
• The Greater Columbus Arts Council announced the recipients of nearly $250,000 in Funds for Artists grants.
• Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed wants your help selecting a mural design from one of four local artist finalists.
• Thursday, Evolution Theatre opens its season with the Midwest premiere of Starmaker, about the relationship between closeted classic movie star Rock Hudson and his agent.
• Thursday also brings the start of this year’s Columbus Moving Picture Show. Once again, the Wex will take part with a screening of the first 3D feature, Bwana Devil, and a visit from Bob Furmanek from the 3-D Film Archive and animation expert Jerry Beck.
• Nancy Fest is this weekend at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, and while that event is sold out, the Ernie Bushmiller show opening in conjunction with the event will be around through November 3.
• Asian Fest is also happening Saturday and Sunday.

Around the Globe

• The National Endowment for the Arts announced its second round of grants for this fiscal year, and we’re excited to share that one of those grants will support of autumn presentation of Ming Smith: Wind Chime and related programming.
• The NEA also released a playlist of videos featuring National Heritage Fellows such as musicians RL Boyce and Wu Man.
• If you’re planning a trip to NYC this year, be sure to stop by Cameron Granger’s Queens Museum residency show, 9999. It’s on view Sunday through January 19, 2025.
• Portal, the installation that visually connected New York City with Dublin, Ireland, closed down after the public in both cities kept flashing onlookers across the pond. Artist Benediktas Gylys shared his intent to The Guardian.
• New York makers Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida have launched a new art fair that helps artists clear out their studios while giving a leg up to new and limited-means collectors.
• Artnet covered the partnership between the School of the Visual Arts New York and the French monastery where Vincent Van Gogh sought psychiatric treatment.
• Staff at the Vatican Museums have filed a class action complaint seeking better working conditions.
• Palais de Tokyo—the organizing institution for the Sarah Maldoror exhibition we just presented—has been defended in an open letter signed by over 200 artists and curators after a longtime patron pulled funding, accusing Palais of “wokeism.”
• T Magazine counted down five pop culture trends spawned by Matthew Barney.
• Christie’s is moving forward with major auctions despite a massive cyberattack.
• Sir Elton John and partner David Furnish discussed their private art collection and the photography works they loaned out for a new exhibition, many of which have never been seen by the public.
• The Netflix film Rustin and the Max series The Last of Us were among the winners at the GLAAD Media Awards.
• Film artist Judith Godrèche discussed the short she’s brought to Cannes and her role in bringing the #MeToo movement to France.
• David Cronenberg also has a new movie at Cannes, The Shrouds, and he’s hinting that it might be his last.
• And ahead of his new film premiering at Cannes, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof fled his home country after he was sentenced to flogging and prison time there.
• In the current moviegoing market, even prestige dramas with stars like Cillian Murphy and Saoirse Ronan are having a hard time finding US distribution.
• Art Directors Guild suspended its training program, citing a lack of jobs.
• May karma find the person who randomly punched Steve Buscemi as he was walking in Manhattan.
• The correctional facility in San Quentin, California announced that it’s launching a film festival—the first fest to be held inside a prison.
• Mayim Bialik, Adam Driver, and Tom Waits are now attached to the new project from Jim Jarmusch.
• Film distributor Kino Lorber launched its own streaming channel.
• Slate wondered why a new, A24-released documentary about January 6 arrived with virtually no fanfare.
• A24 has also published a new book by Emily Schubert, a makeup artist with an art world following.
• The art of bookbinding is finding fans on TikTok.
• Ever wanted to live in a Frank Lloyd Wright house? Now you can buy prefab kits inspired by the architect’s designs.
• UC Berkley was cited as a case study in how to use haptics and audio to provide disabled patrons with an accessible experience.
• Fifty years after defecting to the West, Mikhail Baryshnikov reflected on his work since.
• Senator Ted Cruz challenged the spending of public funds on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its CEO, Stacy Harrison, responded in turn.
• Barbara Hammer’s birthday was this week. The late artist and subject of our 2019 exhibition In This Body would’ve been 85.
• Saxophonist David Sanborn died at 78.
• Roger Corman, the B-movie icon who gave career starts to the likes of Jonathan Demme, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese, passed away at the age of 98.
• Nobel-winning author Alice Munro died at 92.
• Character actor Dabney Coleman, best known for playing the slimy boss in the comedy 9 to 5, passed away. He was also 92.