Weekend reading: July 23 edition

Around Columbus

• Saturday night, Wild Goose Creative hosts “OK BOOMER” IS NOT OK”, an event about ageism in media and the arts organized by Gabrielle Burton.
• Across the street at 7 PM, Secret Studio hosts a concert with Golomb and Melanie and Dave Holm.
• Sunday afternoon, The Crest in Clintonville hosts Loyal to the Soil Flea, a parking lot event with vendors and drink specials to benefit Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence.
• Breaking news about Monday’s Office Hours: Wex Store Manager Matt Reber will be joined by poet Chet Weise and Adrian Matejka, author of the new collection inspired by David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World.”
• Congrats and best wishes to Maroon Arts Group for purchasing the endangered Pythian Temple next to the King Arts Complex. The organization will launch a capital campaign to cover renovations.
• Short North Stage announced its 10th anniversary season this week.
• Local genre filmmaker William Lee will see one of his early films, Treasure of the Ninja, restored by the American Genre Film Archive.
• Spacebar and Dirty Dungarees are among the local music venues that will require proof of vaccination from patrons. 
• Here’s a nice piece on the community building work of Hilltop’s 3060 Gallery.
• Looking ahead to next Friday, Columbus Moving Image Art Review will livestream its 47th edition, which includes a visit to artist Zachary Armstrong’s studio with former Wex curator Michael Goodson, shot by filmmaker Phil Garrett.

Around the globe

• Monday at 2 PM, don’t miss a virtual tour of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Twisted with New Museum’s Margot Norton and Andrew Westover on Instagram Live.
• Hyperallergic caught up with Wex Artist Residency Award recipients New Red Order.
• The Guardian marked the 20th anniversary of Terry Zwigoff’s cult favorite Ghost World.
• The Academy Museum announced its launch programs, including a conversation between Spike Lee and writer-director-producer Shaka King.
• Questlove had an engaging conversation with Terry Gross about his doc Summer of Soul.
• The other big doc news of the week was the controversy surrounding the use of AI to fake Anthony Bourdain’s voice for the new film Roadrunner. Here’s what filmmakers Robert Greene and A.J. Schnack think about it.
• This one was a shocker: due to declining attendance, SFMoma will cut its film program, its online publication, and its acclaimed podcast Raw Material.
• Here’s a podcast on the history of twerking.
• Here’s a profile of Emmanuelle Polack, the woman who works for the Louvre hunting for looted paintings.
• A Georgetown University study indicates that creativity may be the key to aging well.
• A survey by the Arts Dealers Association of America suggests that galleries are starting to bounce back from the pandemic.
• Here’s a piece on the origins of creating name signs in ASL.
• The Ford and Mellon Foundations have expanded funding for disabled artists by adding $5 million to the Disability Futures program.
• ICYMI, here’s where you can access recordings from this week’s Disability Futures Virtual Festival, which included participants such as Vision Portraits filmmaker Rodney Evans and Climate Changing artist Carolyn Lazard.
• And lastly, here’s some bonus reading: a rundown on more news about the contributors to Climate Changing: On Artists, institutions, and the Social Environment.