Weekend reading: July 15 edition

Around Ohio

• Looks like gas prices dropped at an opportune moment: Cleveland’s Front International 2022 opens Saturday and runs through October 2. Expect work from the likes of Cory Arcangel, Theaster Gates, Diana Al-Hadid, and Yoshimoto Nara.
• All day Saturday, Lift All Voices: Music & Arts Fest is happening in the Franklinton Arts District.
• Saturday night, 934 Gallery hosts the Super Friends Art N Music Festival.
• Sunday, The Spikedrivers perform in the Goodale Park Music Series.
• Monday, the Greater Columbus Arts Council hosts a virtual presentation on NFTs for artists.
• Here’s a write-up of the new group show at All People’s Gallery, Pots and Prints.
• Here’s some fodder for your local podcast playlist.
• Thursday, ROY G BIV Gallery is hosting another open critique.
• Friday, Streetlight Guild opens a solo show of work by Nichole Burton.
• Next Saturday, The Vanderelli Room opens the erotic art show Gabinetto Segreto IV.
• Also next Saturday, All People Arts is hosting a workshop in old-school film photography.

Around the globe

• A Hyperallergic piece on a new generation of land artists features Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Hope Ginsburg, who’ll have new work in our galleries this winter.
• The Emmy nominations came out this week, with new standout series like Severance and Yellowjackets getting nods alongside standing Emmy favorites like Ted Lasso.
• The PBS Short Film Festival is back and streaming for free.
• Jafar Panahi is the latest Iranian filmmaker to be arrested. As you’ll recall, this isn’t the first time Panahi has been persecuted.
• The BBC looked at Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke on the 25th anniversary of its release in the US—and how the handling of the film was botched in the States by Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax.
• The New York Times fixed on Meryl Streep’s signature move.
• So long, “voice of God”-style documentary narration.
• Ada Limón was named the new Poet Laureate of the United States.
• Political chicanery is putting the burgeoning genre of children’s queer lit in peril. The story links to a broader list of over 800 targeted books that includes authors such as Michelle Alexander and Alan Moore.
• A new report on global cultural investment reveals that there was a boom in new museums in 2021.
• ARTNews caught up with Chella Man and the deaf trans hyphenate artist’s first show as curator.
• Here’s an update on the controversy-riddled Documenta 15.
• Pop star and painter Halsey is auctioning off works she created live onstage to benefit the National Network of Abortion Funds.
• Mexican-American artists are giving new cultural relevance to the piñata.
• Check out the grassroots arts scene growing in the heart of Turkey.
• Architectural Digest chimed in on the pro-environmental trend to move away from manicured lawns.
• Dance/NYC is conducting a census of dance workers in the city in an effort to establish industry-wide labor standards.
• We can get behind this Dance Magazine piece encouraging college dance students to think cross-departmentally.
• Got a Girl Scout in your life? They might be into this virtual drawing workshop happening August 9. Signup is open now.
• Meow Wolf cofounder Matt King died suddenly at the age of 37.