Weekend reading: July 1 edition

Around Columbus

• The Greater Columbus Council has a couple of new opportunities: artists can apply to fill downtown windows with art and submit work for possible inclusion among the local art given as Community Arts Partnership awards.
• The Dispatch stopped by the new Charles Schulz exhibition at The Billy.
• The Pizzuti Collection opened a new show of historic American photographs.
• Monday brings the annual Doo Dah Parade to the Short North.
• Next weekend brings Franklinton Friday, with new art on view from the likes of Mallory Plinkie, Euzhan Shabazz and Miranda Holmes, and Luke Boyd.
• Next weekend, there are also a few opportunities to shop and support local, such as Friendship Flea on Friday and the Fill A Bag Sale at Stonewall Columbus that benefits Dress for Success Columbus,
• Next Saturday, TRANSIT ARTS is hosting a creative and wellness event for young Black women, Black Girls Glow.
• Also Saturday, COSI is hosting Black, Out and Proud’s annual Pride Art and Fashion Show.

Around the globe

• Here’s the latest study on the mental health benefits of going to museums.
• Here’s a rundown of Documenta 15 and the controversy surrounding an anti-Semitic image presented as part of the fest.
• Like Ohio, Georgia passed a six-week abortion ban, and movie studios that shoot there threatened to pull out of the state at the time. What’s going on with that now that Roe has been reversed?
• The Orlando Museum of Art fired its director following an FBI raid involving 25 allegedly forged Basquiats in the museum’s posession.
• Due to population shifts, senior citizens will soon outnumber youths in the US, and despite the stereotypes to the contrary they’re hungry for culture. This new study considers how museums can better engage older Americans.
• The New York Times continued its series of obits on the overlooked with New Wave music icon Klaus Nomi.
• The Washington Post chimed in on the role live theater can play in social change.
• If some business are planning to continue the pandemic-era work from home option, why don’t we make unused parking lots into public play areas, like the city of Milan has?
• The Warhol Foundation bestowed nearly $4 million in grants to organizations like Anthology Film Archives and New Museum.
• School libraries aren’t the only public resources facing possible censorship.
• And America isn’t the only place where libraries are under attack.
• Artist Sam Gilliam passed away at the age of 88. His work was presented at the Wex in To Begin, Again and as part of the summer 2018 exhibition Inherent Structure. And Gilliam’s daughter, Melissa Gilliam, is the Ohio State vice provost who oversees the Wex. Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the Gilliam family.
• Painter Margaret Keane, whose crowd-pleasing portraits of saucer-eyed children were for years falsely credited to her husband, died at the age of 94.
• Transgender activist and style icon Gloria Allen died at 76.
• Computer art pioneer Ken Knowlton died at 91.