Weekend reading: July 24 edition

Around Columbus

• Start your Saturday with an Art Brunch at 3060 Artworks with food trucks and music by Rubin Traylor (pictured).
• On Saturday afternoon, cartoonist and Cartoon Crossroads Columbus cofounder Jeff Smith is streaming a virtual book signing.
• Also on Saturday, join DJ Citizen Dorian S for the livestream premiere of his latest mixtape.
• One more for Saturday: you can tune into the Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival.
• The home of artist Aminah Robinson, which she left to the Columbus Museum of Art, is now ready to start hosting artists in residence.
• Burning question: Why are the performing arts being left out of the state's reopening plans?
• COSI is distributing science kits for kids in underserved areas of Columbus.
• The 2020 Easter Seals Disability Film Challenge is underway. Here’s a beautiful short doc made for it by Columbus filmmakers Alexandria Cree and Kristen Hilkert. 
• The City of Akron has released the public art plan it’s been developing for two years.
• Mark your calendar: on Thursday, Columbus Flea is hosting a virtual market featuring makers of color.

Around the globe

• The big news this week is not good: as many as a third of US museums may not survive the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Senators Amy Klobuchar and John Cornyn have introduced the bipartisan “Save Our Stages Act,” a new relief bill for independent music and entertainment venues.
• The New York Times spoke to 12 artists including Tomashi Jackson & Torkwase Dyson about the financial crisis.
• The Whitney Museum has invited American Artist to virtually board up all the images of artwork on its website (pictured at top of page). 
• Lincoln Center is currently hosting ADA in the Arts, a series of virtual events to mark the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
• The Disability Unite Festival is doing the same on Sunday with a full day of online programming.
• A dozen artists including LaToya Ruby Frazier and Carrie Mae Weems are contributing to a new get-out-the-vote campaign.
• Artists have been responding to the politicization of Goya Foods.
• Alison Bechdel of The Bechdel Test has written a new intro for the 25 anniversary edition of Howard Cruse’s groundbreaking graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby.
• In response to a museum social media challenge spotlighting painted and chiseled posteriors, critics have chosen the 10 best butts in art.
• Artist Tony Oursler has created a new Instagram filter to go with his virtual show at Lehmann Maupin, on view through August 7.
• Check out an online gallery tour of striking anti-Nazi collage work made during the rise of the Third Reich by artist John Heartfeld.
• Vermont teenager Tilly Krishna has created an anti-racism calendar to make allyship easier.
• Virtual Friday Night Films at the Wende, an excellent series of online films and talks, this week features our presentation of Disgraced Monuments. 
• Bloomberg Philanthropies has donated $1 million for a public art project commemorating the Tulsa neighborhood once known as Black Wall Street.
• Taylor Renee Aldridge and Susan D. Anderson are the new curators at the California African American Museum.
• New York gallery Gavin Brown Enterprises has closed and its eponymous gallerist is now a partner at Gladstone Gallery. 
• Warhol Superstar Brigid Berlin has passed away.
• Reality Fever, the 1983 film by post-appropriation artist Gretchen Bender, is available to view through midnight Sunday via Metro Pictures.
• And for your future viewing plans, IndieWire has updates on the world of independent film streaming and the mainstream films being pushed into next year, including Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch.