Weekend reading: August 28 edition

Around Columbus

• Virtual Scrawl brings the annual live painting event to your living room all day Saturday. (A scene from last year's in-person version is at top of page.)
• Here’s a list of central Ohio record stores participating in Saturday’s Record Store Day, including Used Kids and Lost Weekend Records.
• The Ohioana Book Festival is online this weekend, with writers including Scott Woods and Rachel Wiley participating.
• The Riffe Gallery posted a new artist talk with Natalie Lanese, a contributor to the gallery’s current show, Paper Routes.
• Saturday, Glass Axis in Franklinton opens Mix the Medias, its collaborative show with SOL-CON: The Brown, Black, and Indigenous Comics Expo.
• Poetry lovers, your September is set. Streetlight Guild’s Rhapsody & Refrain 2: 30 Columbus Poets starts streaming Tuesday.
• The Black History 101 Mobile Museum is coming to Columbus Wednesday and Thursday.
• Speak Easy continues its long-running open mic storytelling event Thursday via Zoom. The topic: Nightmares.
• The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will reopen its galleries next Friday. You can reserve a time to visit here.
• Wild Goose Creative is closing its Summit Street space.
• Congrats to Awesome Company proprietor and former Columbus gallerist Jacquie Mahan on her new role as executive producer with the opening of Bill & Ted Face the Music.

Around the globe

• The September issue of Vanity Fair, guest edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates, includes a survey by Kimberly Drew of art professionals about what should museums look like in 2020 and a stunning portrait of Breonna Taylor by painter Amy Sherald.
• Meanwhile, Vogue tapped Kerry James Marshall and Jordan Casteel to create cover art for its September issue.
• Kehinde Wiley has been watching outcomes from the protests for racial justice, and he is not impressed.
• With “A Black Art Ecology of Portland,” Portland artist Sharita Towne may be creating a road map for how cities can create more opportunities for artists of color.
• The Mellon Foundation has launched a new initiative to support 1500 artists and small arts institutions with $5 million in funding.
• Artist Nina Chanel Abney has created an empowering interactive virtual artwork, Imaginary Friend, debuting this week to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
• The Whitney Museum scheduled and then canceled an ill-advised show of work by artists of color.
• Here’s a first-person account of visiting the newly opened, spatially distanced Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• A monument to women’s rights pioneers Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth has been unveiled in Central Park.
• Speaking of Anthony, the Susan B. Anthony Museum rejected the recent presidential pardon of the legendary suffragette.
• The New York Asian Film Festival is virtual this weekend; among the offerings is the new film by the great Johnnie To. 
• Scientists in Germany staged a series of indoor concerts with volunteer audiences to investigate possible risks of Coronavirus spread in performance venues.
• A British theater company has found a novel approach to continuing its work: plays delivered via postcards. 
• The New York Times Style Magazine has a feature on breakout actors with disabilities.
• The Lunder Institute for American Art announced that Maya Lin will be a senior fellow for 2020–21.
• Multidisciplinary artist Alberta Whittle has won the 2020 Frieze Artist Award.
• Lastly, a pro tip: Don’t punch a Picasso.