Weekend reading: May 7 edition

Around Ohio

• ICYMI, there’s a new Chief Curator & Director of Exhibitions coming to the Wex: Kelly Kivland, currently at Dia Art Foundation in NYC.
• And this week’s talk about the role of the artist in society between Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil is archived on YouTube.
• Saturday night brings Moonlight Market to downtown, with vendors including jewelry artists iswartek and Colored Girl.
• Also Saturday, Lindsay Gallery is hosting an afternoon open house with artist Katie Kitka.
• Sunday, Columbus Modern Dance Company will perform at a Mother’s Day Tea in person and online at the Columbus Museum of Art.
• Monday at noon, the Ohio Arts Council Governor’s Awards for the Arts ceremony will debut on OAC’s Facebook page.
• Artsy took a look at the art collection of Orange Barrel Media founder and Wex board member Pete Scantland.
• The Dayton Contemporary ended its pandemic shutdown this past weekend with new exhibitions of work by Zachary Armstrong; Curtis Barnes, Sr.; and Cauleen Smith—organized by curator and director of programs Michael Goodson.
• Not Sheep Gallery has a new group show inspired by the police killings of the past year and Norman Rockwell’s portrait of desegregation icon Ruby Bridges.
• GCAC Gallery has turned its walls over to the Entangled Threads, a group fiber exhibition organized by King Arts Complex.
• Kelton House is the latest Columbus museum to reopen its doors.
• Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences is seeking submissions of poetry about the pandemic.
• 614 Music Club wrapped its interview series featuring 17 short stories about the Columbus music scene.
• Looking ahead, CCAD’s Chroma festivities to mark the end of the school year include a Wednesday showcase for animation students at South Drive-In and the annual fashion show on Friday at Easton’s drive-in space.

Around the globe

• The inaugural Past Present Future dance film festival is happening virtually starting Sunday night, featuring dance works by Kyle Abraham, Pam Tanowitz, and Kinetic Light.
• Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest debuts at Madison Square Park on Thursday.
• Fab 5 Freddy and Lee Quiñones spoke about their 1980 subway car art collaboration Campbell Soup. They're also taking part in a virtual discussion on Monday with Futura and Lady Pink in conjunction with a Museum of Fine Arts Boston exhibition on Jean-Michel Basquiat and the hip-hop generation.
• Titus Kaphar is preparing to launch his own multimedia production company.
• Daniel Libeskind has been chosen to redesign the campus of the Tree of Life Synagogue, site of a 2018 mass shooting.
• Sarah Sze and her stunning public artwork for LaGuardia Airport got the CBS Sunday Morning treatment.
• To commemorate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, San Francisco art site 8-bridges hosts an online exhibition through May 31 of works by artists including Nam June Paik and Rirkrit Tirivanija.
• The artist advocacy group Final Bow for Yellowface wants to see better representation in the dance community for Asian performers and choreographers.
• Writer Jasmine M. Ellis uses the Oscar-nominated Netflix short A Love Song for Latasha and the death of Ma’Khia Bryant as prompts to consider, who benefits from watching Black trauma on screen?
• There’s a new season of the classic film podcast You Must Remember This focused on prototypical Hollywood gossip mongers Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons.
• A first grade teacher created a comic to share the frustrations and discoveries of teaching art virtually.
• Collector, museum founder, and philanthropist Eli Broad passed away late last month.
• We also lost 89 year-old Oscar winning actress Olympia Dukakis.
• James Prigoff, a photographer whose documentation of street art helped bring legitimacy to the field, died at the age of 93.
• And this week brought news of the loss of Fred Jordan, the cofounder of Grove Press, home to censor-skirting authors like Henry Miller and William S. Burroughs. He was 95.