Weekend reading: May 29 edition

Around Ohio

• Cartoon Crossroad Columbus is moving online for 2020. We’re excited to continue our partnership with the fest in any form. (The 2019 CXC visit by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is pictured at top of page.)
• Mandi Caskey and a team of fellow local artists has created a mural of solidarity on an abandon highway overpass downtown.
• Keny Galleries is marking an impressive milestone: 40 years in business.
• Curation can now be a team building exercise; the Cleveland Museum of Art has created a Slack app for remote workers to build their own virtual exhibitions.
• Jazz Arts Group CEO Press Southworth is out of the hospital after an 11-day stay for COVID-19.
• Looking to switch up your self-care routine? There's a fresh round of Goat Yoga at Groveport’s Harrison Farm.
• Local treasure Joe Camerlengo, featured on the blog earlier this week for his collaboration with life and art partner Courtney Hall, writes about heroism in the age of COVID-19.
• Guy Maddin’s choose-your-own-adventure work Seances opens Out of the Box on Monday; coincidentally, Pages collaborator Scott Woods created something similar this week.
• And Woods’s venue Streetlight Guild will livestream a performance by Robert Mason on Sunday afternoon.
• Columbus Alive has re-shared a (tragically) newly timely essay from recent Wex online guest Hanif Abdurraqib about police violence against African Americans in your own community.
• Mark your calendar: the annual film festival of work by students at Hilliard-Davidson High School, a regular source for Ohio Shorts contributions, will stream this year on June 3.

Around the globe

• Vulture asks, "What will make Americans feel safe to go back to the movies?"
• And here’s an A-list of filmmakers and actors recalling their most memorable moviegoing moments.
• ICYMI, our online presentation of Lewis Klahr’s Circumstantial Pleasures saw some love from BOMB and the New York Times.
• Filmmaker and Barbara Hammer collaborator Lynn Sachs has made a new work via distanced collaboration.
• The indie film industry event IFP Week will take place virtually in September and expand to include audio storytelling.
• But the Telluride Film Festival is proceeding with an in-person event.
• Happy birthday to Carmen Herrera, who turns 105 on Saturday. Here’s a piece on her long-overdue success.
• Carrie Mae Weems is developing a campaign to illustrate how COVID-19 has disproportionately affected communities of color.
• Instead of a Turner Prize this year, the funds will be split among 10 artists.
• The 2022 Bucharest Biennial will be curated with artificial intelligence.
• Watch a classic Bob Fosse dance number reimagined with Barbie dolls and read how and why it was made.
• In a rare interview, composer Arvo Pärt says, “This tiny coronavirus has showed us in a painful way that humanity is a single organism and human existence is possible only in relation to other living beings.”
• Kara Walker writes about “the post-lockdown world” and considers the parallels between social distancing and segregation for a new series of essays from Frieze.
• The Conversation makes a case that cellphone videos of black people’s deaths should be considered as sacred as images of lynchings.
• Here’s an excellent Google doc of anti-racism resources that's been making the rounds online.
• And John Boyega, star of the last round of Star Wars films, has become one of the most prominent voices against racism on social media.
• Here’s info on the filmmakers who are donating bail funds to individuals arrested in the Minneapolis protests of the death of George Floyd.
• Artists, there’s a new grant program to develop new tools to fight digital inequality.
• There’s a new mural honoring health care workers in the parking lot of the Queens Museum so big it can be seen from space.
• Artist Marc Quinn has been turning online stories about the coronavirus into large works of art.
• And artist Xin Liu has created an online game that speaks to our collective at-home experience.
• Tony Kushner and Dr. Anthony Fauci offer their thoughts on the passing of Larry Kramer, the godfather of AIDS activism.
• AIDS Quilt volunteers have repurposed fabric to sew masks for essential workers.
• Mark Morris has given dancing on Zoom a go.
• The incomparable David Shrigley has new drawings to share.
• Watch a recent documentary in which Catherine Opie discusses the motivations behind her work.
• A profit-sharing online art fair has been launched the New Art Dealers Alliance. It’s open through June 21.
• Enjoy a provocative interview with Cinétracts ’20 contributor Akwaeake Emezi about their upcoming novel.
• Rutgers professor Salamishah Tillet calls HBO’s Insecure and Netflix’s new comedy The Lovebirds signs of “a broader mainstreaming of black women’s beauty and cultural influence.”
• MoMA has an essay and playlist celebrating great African musicians.
• A Philip Glass score thought lost for 50 years has been reconstructed and recorded.
• Check out a playlist built from Spiral Jetty artist Robert Smithson’s record collection.
• And the online video project SCREENERS IV is streaming a work a day through June 2 (an email address is required to view).
• Lastly, we can get behind this list of 30 truly original films to watch at home, including works by filmmakers such as Kirsten Johnson, Carlos Reygadas, and Hong Sang-Soo. (FYI, we have a new film from Hong coming to our virtual screening rooms next Friday.)