Weekend reading: September 18 edition

Around Ohio

• Here’s the latest news on the existential threat the pandemic poses to central Ohio arts groups.
• The annual Doo Dah Parade wends its way through the Short North Saturday.
• Digi Flea is back Sunday at noon.
• Sunday, The Crest is hosting an outdoor screening of Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks to benefit the Gladden Community House.
• If you missed our virtual presentation of the documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble, you can catch it via CAPA and Drexel Theater and watch a panel discussion Monday night.
• The Cleveland International Film Festival has a virtual screening of the Agnes Gund doc Aggie available all weekend with a talk on Sunday
• A record release party for Lydia Loveless is happening Thursday at Secret Studio (in-person and streaming).
• Fresh A.I.R. Gallery has an open call for artwork for the November exhibition Creative Resilience.
• Ohio writer Donald Ray Pollock discussed the Netflix debut of a film based on his book The Devil All the Time.
• Congrats to Ohio State Professor Frederick Luis Aldama and his writing partner Christopher Gonzalez on their book Reel Latinxs taking home a prize from the 2020 International Latino Book Awards.

Around the globe

• The German animation conference Pictoplasma is fully virtual and running workshops and screenings through Saturday.
• The virtual New York Film Festival is underway, with online rentals available from filmmakers including Cristi Puiu, and Béla Tarr, plus a revival stream of Joyce Chopra’s captivating 1985 coming-of-age drama Smooth Talk.
• The March on Washington Virtual Film Fest is another option starting Sunday, with selections such as the doc The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show (pictured at top of page).
• Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland has won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.
• Cate Blanchett stars in a new video by Marco Brambilla for the augmented reality app Acute Art.
• Seattle contemporary dance company Whim W’Him has created an experimental virtual platform to “reimagine our Season 11 beyond the stage.” A “Choreographic Shindig” is happening Thursday.
• Here’s an argument for embracing online performance as a new genre.
• The British dance troupe Diversity performed a piece paying homage to Black Lives Matter on the show Britain’s Got Talent—and generated over 20,000 complaints. 
• For The 51st State, theater artists in Washington, DC have captured monologues on film about BLM protests in the district.
• Installation artist Anita Witek, whose work was seen in the Wex’s lower lobby in 2018, is part of the program for Austria’s international, now-online art fair viennacontemporary September 24-27.
• Faith Ringgold and Jordan Casteel got together to talk about painting in the midst of protest.
• Jova Lynne will return to the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit as a senior curator.
• Things are not good at the Guggenheim. And not just with efforts to conserve Maurizio Cattelan’s banana on canvas.
• The Brooklyn Museum is selling a dozen works to help maintain the rest of its collection.
• The Washington Post offered a look at the benefits of museum attendance through a pandemic lens.
• It was inevitable: there’s an exhibition of face masks in Seattle.
• COVID-19 may be creating a “brain drain” in the arts sector.
• With TikTok about to go away in the US, here’s an opinion piece about how its algorithm has helped create a culture in which there’s little true pleasure without consumption. And another on its potential to radicalize teenagers for the left.
• Frank Gehry spoke about his unique style to mark the dedication of the new Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial he designed.
• And Gerhard Richter says he’s done with large-scale projects.