Weekend reading: July 17 edition

Around Columbus

• Black Artist Solidarity Day, the brainchild of singer Qamil Wright, is streaming Saturday.
• Craftin’ Outlaws has your online shopping itch covered all day Saturday with a virtual marketplace.
• Hayley Gallery has an appointment-only opening Saturday night for new works by Todd Buschur.
• Street artist Malcolm J. has a showcase of his more political work opening Sunday at Short North retailer Glean.
• J.'s show is part of One World: Gallery Opening and Mural Unveiling, an open house and official debut for the latest round of Short North murals, happening in the neighborhood and online Sunday afternoon.
• Curious about American Sign Language? You can learn more about Ohio State’s certification program during a Tuesday webinar.
• Artnet has a feature on Black women working to transform their respective art scenes, including Cleveland artist and activist Amanda King.
• Down south, three theater companies in Cincinnati including Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park jointly announced delayed seasons.

Around the globe

• Artforum has a terrific new writeup of LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze (seen at top of page in our galleries).
• After planning to forge ahead with in-person, the Telluride Film Festival has announced it’s canceling this year.
• Frieze London is also skipping 2020.
• Here’s a list you maybe didn’t know you needed but you absolutely do: recommendations for Ingmar Bergman films based on your pandemic mood.
• The Dance on Camera festival is streaming all weekend.
• Tap dancer Ayodele Casel is using her skills to speak to social justice.
• The Martha Graham Dance Company is sharing treasures from its archives.
• Musician Nick Cave has a new performance film debuting Thursday: Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace.
• Art critic Michael Glover shares an essay on how he learned to write about art.
• Author Colson Whitehead is now the youngest-ever winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. He and the library’s Carla Hayden had a lengthy conversation yesterday about race in America.
• A sculpture of Black Lives Matter protester Jen Reid by artist Marc Quinn was erected—and then taken down—where a statue of British slave trader Edward Colston stood until recently.
• Here’s a new interview with Kevin Beasley about his series of works made from NBA player jerseys.
• Jacolby Satterwhite was tapped to make the latest video from The 1975.
• Satterwhite joined Adama Delphine Fawundu, Lorie Novak and 10 other Black artists in speaking to Vogue about life in America right now.
• Slate reviews the performances of people caught on video refusing to wear a mask.
• Museum stores are starting to expand the options for distinctive protective face coverings.
• Coronavirus is hitting Bollywood hard.
• Sitting or working at home in your loungewear? Podcaster Avery Trufelman wants you to think about what fashion means to you.
• New York’s Public Theater debuted a new production of Richard II on public radio.
• Brooklyn art and tech center Eyebeam is funding a project in which 30 artists are working on creative solutions to 21st century problems such as racial violence and digital surveillance.
• A group of Alaskan artists is working with a local housing authority on reducing isolation for quarantined seniors.
• A new piece in ASAP Journal’s Black One Shot series focuses on Sondra Perry’s 2017 work IT’S IN THE GAME ’17 or Mirror Gag for Vitrine and Projection.
• Plans to reopen New York museums have been postponed due to the national surge in COVID-19 cases.
• But NYC galleries have reopened, and critics are raving.
• And the Hudson Valley’s open-air sculpture park Storm King will start welcoming visitors next week.
• To round things out for the weekend, read about how Keanu Reeves is now a comic book writer.

Stay safe, everyone.