Weekend reading: July 10 edition

Around Ohio

• We’re proud to join King Arts Complex on a new collaboration between local arts organizations to tell the stories of Black America through art.
• Franklinton Fridays is tonight, with an outdoor artist market; an amazing new mural by Katie Golonka going up at Vanderelli Room; a show of new work by Michael Bush at Secret Studio; and Whitney Sage, Ben Schonberger, and Nathaniel Foley on the walls of ROY G BIV Gallery.
• There’s also a striking new show up at 934 Gallery from artists Erin Cameron and Sky Dai. 
• Here’s an update from Columbus Underground on the Columbus Art Commission following the decision to remove the Christopher Columbus statue from the front of City Hall (seen at top of page).
• Next Monday brings the week-long Art Unites Auction with works by Katya Philmore, Dan Gerdeman, Thom Glick, Kate Sweeney, Chip Willis, and many more. 
• Columbus artist and writer Laura Larson wrote about Adrian Piper’s photography series Food for the Spirit for ASAP Journal's Black One Shot initiative.
• Here’s a piece on local artist Dane Khy and his distinctive “one line” drawings.
• Columbus Alive reflects on what an odd year it’s been so far for movie watching.
• Writer and Streetlight Guild proprietor Scott Woods puts the pandemic in perspective by connecting the national death toll with the capacity of Ohio Stadium.
• Up north, artist Shaun Leonardo, whose Tamir Rice-inspired show at MOCA Cleveland was canceled, is facing public criticism from Rice’s mother Samaria for the work he produced and the items he’s been selling featuring her son’s image.
• And we send our very best wishes to former Wex Senior Curator of Exhibitions Michael Goodson in his new position at the newly rebranded The Contemporary Dayton.
   

Around the globe

• The death of the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone last week prompted this Vulture piece on his greatest music cues.
• If you caught HBO's Watchmen on its initial run or during its recent free stream, dive deeper with a roundtable moderated by Michael Gillespie in Film Quarterly.
• Six critics share their favorite summer blockbusters from years past including Cinema Revival '20 selection Speed and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
• The new issue of Filmmaker Magazine is out and the publication is now allowing purchase of individual issues online.
• Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage is being remade by HBO with Michelle Williams and Oscar Isaac.
• A massive new study looks at what the public wants to see in a post-pandemic art world.
• The MacDowell Colony has removed “Colony” from its name.
• Major leadership issues at the The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit are coming to light and Unorthodocs '19 contributors The New Red Order have postponed a solo exhibition there until they’re addressed.
• A Rochester, New York monument to Frederick Douglass was torn from its base and tossed in the river on the anniversary of his historic Independence Day speech.
• With more eyes turning toward the history of housing segregation in the US, the Chicago Tribune offers the story of the legal property battle that inspired Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in The Sun.
• There’s a new book by author Nicole Fleetwood on the links between art and mass incarceration.
• The New York Times cracks open the “cone of silence” around Black classical music composers.
• Korean American artist Kate Bae was assaulted near NYC’s Bryant Park.
• Here’s a preview of the compelling new book by photographer George Elsasser, American Psyche: The Unlit Cave.
• The new Netflix comic book adaptation The Old Guard is getting lots of positive notice, including for its distinction as being the first major Hollywood franchise with a gay romance.
• And something juicy to conclude with: Audible has released a preview of the all-star audio adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, coming to devices everywhere next week.