Weekend reading: July 22 edition

Around Ohio

• We're thrilled and honored to be on the list of recipients in the latest round of Ohio Arts Council grants.
• It’s Jazz & Rib Fest weekend.
• The CAPA Summer Movie Series continues with treasures like Young Frankenstein Saturday and Sunday, The Grapes of Wrath Wednesday and Thursday, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious next weekend.
• Friendship Flea is back in Clintonville Sunday afternoon.
• A talk with Aminah Robinson writer-in-residence Darlene Taylor is happening Sunday at Columbus Museum of Art.
• Also Sunday, you can take a guided walking tour through Green Lawn Cemetery and hear about the connection some permanent residents have to breweries and brothels.
• Front International released its first podcast for the 2022 edition of the Cleveland-based triennial.
• Next Saturday, 400 Square is hosting a block party benefit for arts and addiction nonprofit This Must Be the Place.
• Next Saturday also brings Grandview Hop.
• And that night, Lincoln Theatre is hosting a Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony honoring local legends Queen Brooks and Jeanette Williams.

Around the globe

• For your weekend watch list: this IndieWire article with links to inspiring LGBTQ shorts by rising directors.
• Florence Almozini has been promoted to Senior Programming Director of Film at Lincoln Center, following Dennis Lim, who’s moved on to the New York Film Festival.
• The effects of climate change on the art world were in the news this week as museums in London shuttered in response to extreme heat and the rooftop of a Chinese museum melted off the top of the building.
• The new show from artist Tony Cokes caught the attention of The New York Times. He’ll be joining us for a Wex public program October 18.
• The New Yorker covered the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League, which believes the tools of the Western art world can be used to heal the damage of colonial plundering in the country.
• Wired considered how AI-generated art is testing the boundaries of curation.
• We like this story on how university-based museums can offer a model for a bolder world of art institutions as a whole.
• The Documenta 15 scandal has officially taken down the event’s director general.
• It looks to be officially official: San Francisco Art Institute is shutting down.
• Here’s a look at how authors such as Chinelo Okparanta and Mohsin Hamid are using satire to tackle racism.
• The New York Public Library has unearthed new recordings and songs by Lou Reed.
• The culture wars have claimed a small town library in Iowa.
• Who knew comedian Richard Lewis is a big Buckeyes fan?
• Dawn Porter, the filmmaker behind the 2006 documentary Trapped, spoke about how the individual stories and needs of women are so often overlooked in the debate around abortion rights.
• In closing, we lost the great Claes Oldenburg this week. He was 93.