Weekend reading: August 21 edition

Around Ohio

• Wex House DJ Trueskillz is participating in two Soundclash Entertainment live sets, tonight and Monday night.
• The Nelsonville Virtual Music Fest takes place tonight and Saturday, with streamed sets from artists including Angela Perley, Lydia Loveless, Counterfeit Madison, and Tank and the Bangas.
• Saturday afternoon, 934 Gallery is hosting a livestream talk with current exhibiting artists Erin Cameron and Sky Dai.
• ProMusica Chamber Orchestra has announced a series of modestly sized concerts in outdoor settings, which kicks off August 30.
• Here are the latest updates to the upcoming, evolving-due-to-coronavirus season at Short North Stage.
• The ACLU of Ohio is hosting a webinar Thursday to help Ohioans with felony convictions exercise their legal right to vote.
• The Columbus Dispatch and all other USA Today Network publications are making a commitment to increase newsroom diversity.
   

Around the globe

• There’s a terrific new review of Stanya Kahn: No Go Backs, which is on view through this weekend in our reopened galleries.
• The 2020 edition of Animation Block Party is streaming this weekend via the Brooklyn Academy of Music. (The image at the top of page is from official selection Lee Ann Womack's Hollywood by Chris Ullens)
• Here’s a look at Lion Forge Animation, the studio behind this year’s animated short Oscar winner Hair Love, and its efforts to bring authentic Black representation to Hollywood. 
• The collective Brown Girls Doc Mafia has debuted an expansive directory of women and nonbinary filmmakers working in the documentary format.
• Male film critics continue to dominate the field, outnumbering women two to one.
• The Harold and Lillian Michelson Library, a historic treasure trove of resources for filmmakers popularized in the documentary Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story, needs a new home.
• Artist Panteha Abareshi will lead online-accessible discussions this weekend about confronting ableism in the art world for the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.
• The Sundance Institute has granted COVID relief funds to 39 organizations including The Black TV & Film Collective and the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge.
• The Criterion Collection, whose staff members have been frequent guests at the Wex in the past, has been called out for the lack of African American directors in its collection.
• Wednesday night, Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds will virtually discuss their anti-racism text for teens, Stamped.
• Shirin Neshat shares the story of a life-changing collaboration with Art in America.
• According to a new survey, consumers recognize how hard-hit cinemas and live venues have been hit by Covid-19, but regardless, they don’t want to see the venues bailed out.
• The live event collective working under the name #WeMakeEvents has scheduled a “Red Alert Day of Action” to advocate for industry relief on September 1.
• Creative Capital has a new interview with filmmaker Deborah Stratman about her work Illinois Parables, which was created with support from a Wex Artist Residency Award and is currently featured in an exhibition at MCA Chicago.
• There’s a new film by Ai Weiwei out virtually today, offering a view of life on lockdown in Wuhan, China.
• Marilyn Minter has created an original print to benefit the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program.
• When the Metropolitan Museum of Art reopens August 29, visitors will be greeted by banners by Yoko Ono.
• Multimedia artist Cao Fei talked to Artnet about the double-edged sword of human use of technology.
• The soundtrack to Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is being re-released on vinyl with 24 minutes of previously unreleased music. 
• Linda Manz, star of Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven and Harmony Korine’s Gummo among other films, passed away at the age of 58.
• The Washington Post checked in with Yo-Yo Ma as part of an ongoing Instagram Live series.
• The pandemic appears to be changing dancers’ bodies.
• Can the arts save rural America from the recession? One writer is seeing signs that it’s a possibility.
• Through the grapevine we’re hearing that the Susan B. Anthony Museum is dealing with backlash for following the wishes of the woman it’s dedicated to and refusing a presidential pardon for the historic suffragette.
• The Smithsonian Magazine took a dive into the story behind the slow theft of $8 million in precious books and artworks from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Library.