Weekend reading: July 16 edition

Around Columbus

• Saturday, Hello Luna plays its first set since the world started reopening, at 934 Gallery. 
• And Secret Studio is screening Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal outdoors.
• That same night across the street, The Vanderelli Room hosts the all-inclusive Rainbow Prom. 
• The next afternoon, the venue welcomes kids and parents for a reading with local children’s book author and illustrator Jane E. Ries.
• Also on Sunday, dozens of local artists and food vendors will converge for Olde Towne Market.
• In case you missed our Unorthodocs 2020 presentation of Cecilia Aldarondo’s Landfall, her chronicle of life in Puerto Rico post-hurricane Maria, airs Sunday night on WOSU-TV (and is streaming now for members at pbs.org).
• Wednesday night, Thurber House welcomes author Lyn Ford for an early evening of family-friendly activities.
• Artsway, a STEM-based, mural-focused arts camp for youth happening in four locations, is open online for registration with the first camp kicking off July 31.
• Short North developers have promised to provide free gallery space in the neighborhood to emerging artists. 
• The Greater Columbus Arts Council named its gallery for one of the city’s most prominent arts patrons: Loann Crane.
• Hanif Abdurraqib talked about his new editor-at-large position at publishing company Tin House.
• Brian Harnetty has released the first track from his forthcoming album Words and Silences.
• Looking ahead, Craftin' Outlaws will pop up next at Columbus Museum of Art July 24 and 31.
  
   

Around the globe

• Here’s the list of films that secured distribution at the Cannes Film Fest. Americans can look forward to new releases coming soon from artists such as Asghar Farhadi, Mia Hansen-Løve, and Joachim Trier.
• Speaking of Cannes, in addition to the pic from the red carpet for The French Dispatch that launched a thousand memes, the list of 32 films director Wes Anderson asked his cast to watch hit the internet this week.
• Also, pioneering Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux got his Cannes debut. Unfortunately, he’s been dead for 70 years.
• In related news, the Emmy nominations came out, with a big presence for series like The Crown and The Mandalorian, but as Vulture notes, several excellent works by Black creators got short shrift. 
• Need something new to stream? Jiva!, a Netflix title about performing in a South African dance competition, has positive buzz.
• Artists are leading the way in the massive protests happening in Cuba.
• And Miami-based artists are working to support victims of the Surfside condo collapse.
• Russia can’t (or won’t) seem to stop jailing members of Pussy Riot.
• If you’re considering a pilgrimage to see the Obama portraits, here’s another reason why Chicago is a hot art destination right now.
• The Baltimore Museum of Art is engaging its security staff as guest curators for a show next march entitled Guarding the Art.
• Following a first stab at diversifying its content with a stream of the documentary Shakedown, Pornhub is back at it with a museum guide for classical nudes.
• Art in America looked at many examples of art world mockery in fiction.
• Damien Hirst is getting into the NFT business. What could possibly go wrong?
• Former Batsheva Dance Company choreographer Shamel Pitts discussed why he’s staging his next work inside a boxing ring.
• Here’s a shortlist of emerging theatre workers to watch, like Atlanta acting coach Tonia Jackson and Chicago puppeteer Mikalina Rabinsky.
• The Conversation examined actor Michael Sheen’s charge that there is no path into the arts for the working class.
• French installation artist Christian Boltanski died at the age of 76.
• Bollywood film legend Dilip Kumar also passed, at the age of 98.
• And we’ll leave you with an iconic artwork from 1970 that’s once again timely this week.