Weekend reading: May 20 edition

Around Columbus

• Saturday night, 934 Gallery opens its new Digital Garage space with work by Maurice Wingfield.
• From there you can head to the new jazz spot in town, Ginger Rabbit, to catch a DJ set by Soundclash Entertainment…
• …Or hear some live music from the Mark Lomax Trio at Streetlight Guild.
• Saturday’s also the last day to see the architectural glass work of Jon Rees at Glass Axis.
• Sunday afternoon brings Tree Love to Weinland Park.
• The King Arts Complex honored Ron and Ann Pizzutti for their support of Black artists.
• Cameron Granger spoke to Columbus Alive about his new show at No Place Gallery.
• And speaking of the local outlet, Alive has lost its longtime workhorse of an editor, Andy Downing. Those who’ve been paying attention to what parent company Gannett has been up to are keeping fingers crossed that the award-winning alternative news source will stick around.
• Thursday, you can check out the first day of the weekend-long classic cinema con The Columbus Moving Picture Show.
• Or do a poetry workshop with the delightful Amy Turn Sharp.
• And next Friday and Saturday, past Wex collaborators FluxFlow Dance Project and Counterfeit Madison join their not inconsiderable forces for the performance work Lividly.1.

Around the globe

• The New York Times caught up with Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Abby Zbikowski. She's been using our Performance Space to rehearse a new show that'll debut in NYC this week before circling back to the Wex this fall.
• Another past Residency Award artist, Kelly Reichardt, received a special award at the Cannes Film Fest.
• Critic Dennis Lim spoke to filmmaker Hong Sangsoo for The New Yorker.
• Peter Greenaway spoke to Variety about completing his first film in seven years.
• Roberta Smith went to Frieze.
• So did illustrator Susan Coyne.
• Newfields, the campus housing the Indianapolis Museum of Art, has a new director: Colette Pierce Burnette.
• The Andy Warhol Foundation committed $350,000 to Ukrainian emergency aid.
• The Albers Foundation is building a museum in Senegal to house repatriated artifacts.
• Here’s a check-in on Nick Cave’s installation for a New York City subway station.
• Fast Company wrote a mash note to online library Hoopla.
• There’s a new Wordle spinoff for art lovers.
• Lastly, some good news for literature lovers: The Believer is back in the hands of McSweeney’s.