Weekend Reading: May 19 Edition

Around Columbus

• Congratulations go out to Ann Hamilton, who received the Irma Lazarus Award at Ohio Arts Council’s Governors Awards for the Arts luncheon. The award is given to those who’ve helped shape public support for the arts and bring recognition of the Ohio arts community.
• And more congrats, this time to Wex Director Gaëtane Verna, recipient of an Ohio State 2023 Outreach and Engagement Grant. The funds will support our Community Studio program, which brings art and art making to spots around the city.
• Following the Ohio Senate’s passage of SB 83, Ohio State’s Board of Trustees issued a statement reaffirming its values of free speech and the development of independent decision-making abilities in its students.
• ICYMI, Head of Film/Video Dave Filipi made an appearance on the latest All Sides Weekend.
• Sunday, head to Schiller Park for the World Goth Day Picnic.
• Past Wex collaborators Flux Flow Dance will be celebrating Pride Month with the generous offer of free classes through the first week of June.
• Artist and former Wex preparator Adam Hernandez discussed the show he has opening this weekend at Ohio State’s Faculty Club.
• Gallery owner Duff Lindsay talked about coming back from a traumatic fall.
• Friday, Streetlight Guild opens Ohio Cultural Carriers: Watering the Seeds, featuring three generations of Black art.
• Next weekend also brings the 29th annual Asian Festival to Franklin Park.
• We were saddened to hear of the sudden passing of Bear Braumoeller. Braumoeller was an Ohio State colleague and a cofounder of Slow Food Columbus, as well as the husband of former Alumni Magazine Assistant Editor Kristen Schmidt.

Around the globe

• The BBC has a new interview with Dario Argento, the subject of our upcoming summer film series.
• New York Times critic Manohla Dargis started her reporting from the Cannes Film Fest. One of the earliest films to generate major buzz is The Zone of Interestby Under the Skin director Jonathan Glazer.
• Former National Association of Theater Owners President John Fithian gauged the current health of the cinema industry.
• Here’s a “brutally honest” view of the WGA picket line.
• And the WGA strike will be changing the shape of next month’s Tony Awards.
• Here’s an opinion about why we’re past the golden age of streaming service documentaries.
• In other algorithm-related news, a new book considers the possibilities of a time when AI thinks for us.
• A book about Hilma af Klint leads this list of graphic novels about women artists.
• PEN America and Penguin Random House are suing the state of Florida over book bans.
• And another one bites the dust: Vice Media filed for bankruptcy this week.
• Here’s a feature on some of the first competitors in the new Olympic sport of breakdancing.
• The flash mob is making a comeback as a “joyfully queer” celebration of inclusivity.
• Drawings made by released captives of Guantanamo Bay have been made public, and they paint a grim picture of the facility’s torture practices.
• A Canadian professor is studying the impact of an arts education on empathy and action on goals related to global equality and climate change.
• The Warhol Museum lost its SCOTUS case centered on copyright issues around a portrait of Prince.
• And despite claiming fair use in court, Richard Prince is still facing two copyright lawsuits related to his sourcing of images found on Instagram for his 2014 “New Portraits” series.