Weekend reading: July 2 edition

Around Ohio

• The woman-powered multimedia event She Burns Bright has its second, spatially distanced edition Friday night at Natalie's in Grandview.
• The King Arts Complex is accepting proposals for mural work to cover a full exterior wall of the building.
• Artist Lisa McLymont, who participated in the mural painting project in front of the Ohio Theatre at the start of the downtown protests, reflected on the unexpected downside artists have faced.
• Congrats go out to Melissa Vogley-Woods; a site-specific version of her Always installation has been commissioned by the Columbus Museum of Art.
• Thurber House is having a virtual Literary Picnics series and will host a talk Wednesday with Columbus writer Rachel Wiley (preceded by a slideshow of images of the Thurber House lawn for anyone feeling sentimental).
• Ohio Prison Arts Connection has a new round of Radio OPAC conversations scheduled for Friday mornings through mid-August.
• Among the offerings from South Drive-In this summer will be a series curated by Michael B. Jordan celebrating multicultural voices in cinema.
• Several local comic stores will participate in Free Comic Book Summer, an expansion of the canceled-for-2020 annual event Free Comic Book Day.
• To wrap Pride Month, Caitlin McGurk of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum has the skinny on lesbian coding in early comics.
• Veteran Cincinnati-based contemporary art dealer Carl Solway passed away last week.
• If you’ve seen Cincinnati Goddamn, check out this reimaginging of Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddamn” from Cincinnati’s Muse Choir. (And if you haven’t seen it, you have one more week.)
• And Columbus has joined Ohio State in mandating mask wearing in public spaces. Your cooperation is much appreciated, as it could have an impact on our reopening schedule.

Around the globe

• For 24 hours Friday, MUBI is offering a free stream of the new Werner Herzog film, Family Romance, LLC (pictured at top of page), plus a Q&A with the filmmaker.
• Watch John Lewis: Good Trouble before next Thursday, July 9, when all ticket buyers are invited to a livestream panel discussion around the film presented by Montgomery, Alabama’s Freedom Rides Museum.
• Stop-motion animator Cressa Maeve Beer has gone viral with a sweet short with a message to support trans teens from Godzilla. She's also offering stop-motion 101 classes for a donation to causes supporting racial equality. 
• The 2021 Sundance Film Festival will offer programming online and at about 20 locations around the country.
• Beyonce’s upcoming visual album for Disney+, Black is King, has a trailer.
• Arthur Jafa directed the Kanye West video released this week for “Wash Us in the Blood.”
• The New York Times has recommendations from writers on the history of racism in America and asked filmmakers to list films that have helped shape the fight for racial justice.
• Check out the work of Los Angeles “artivist” Nikkolas Smith, who was commissioned to do a portrait of George Floyd by Black Lives Matter.
• Tulsa artists Quraysh Ali Lansana and Jerica Wortham are working to reclaim the historic accomplishments of the city’s Black Wall Street.
• If you need more face masks, there are new styles featuring two iconic works from Boston’s Museum of Bad Art.
• The United States Conference of Mayors has adopted a resolution urging Congress to provide long-term relief to the arts and culture sector in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The White House has been taking heat over the past week for appropriating a shape and a design motif, each of which historically holds a lot of baggage.
• Teen Vogue has a blistering new analysis of the ties between colonialism and the art world.
• Here’s a roundup of virtual MFA shows from around the country.
• Here are some new suggestions of art accounts to follow on Instagram.
• Virtual installation artist LaTurbo Avedon has a new work inside Fortnite.
• Senegalese-French dancer and choreographer Germaine Acogny discussed her inspiration for bringing 38 African dancers together to perform Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring.
• Kellie Jones, a guest lecturer at the Wex last October, has been named the inaugural Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art at Columbia. 
• The Wall Street Journal has a list of documentaries about the practice of art forgery.
• William E. Jones wrote about the passing in June of artists and filmmaker Luther Price.
• Milton Glaser, the influential designer behind the “I Heart New York” logo, passed away late last week.
• Lastly, to commemorate the death of comedy great Carl Reiner, here’s one of his best works: a 1967 broadcast of "The 2000 Year Old Man" sketch with Reiner and his best friend, Mel Brooks.

Have a safe holiday!