Weekend Reading: July 26 Edition

Around Columbus

• Streetlight Guild announced its lineup for September’s Rhapsody & Refrain, which includes Hanif Abdurraqib, Sara Abou Rashed, and Maggie Smith.
• Speaking of Smith, she and Sarah Gerard will be reading Monday at Two Dollar Radio to celebrate the release of Gerard’s new book, Carrie Carolyn Coco.
• ARTsway is inviting teens to join its summer mural arts program, which kicks off Monday.
• Wednesday, Combustion Brewing is hosting an art sale in partnership with Project Good Paint.
• Loving, Ohio graphic novelist Matthew Erman talked about his work with The Dispatch.
• Artist and poet Ajanaé Dawkins discussed her show at Urban Arts Space with Matter.
• On the 20th anniversary of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, insiders at the burger chain shared a BTS on its involvement in the stoner classic.
• Columbus Underground highlighted the upcoming 48 Hour Film Fest, which will have filmmakers shooting guerrilla-style around the city in early August.
• For next weekend, you can check out the opening of the biennial Greater Columbus show at the Columbus Museum of Art.
• You can also stop by an artist reception for Domino Hunter at Cora’s Curiosities.
• And Saturday is Gallery Hop, with things to see including abstracts by Jane Carney at Brandt-Roberts Galleries.
   

Around the Globe

• Opinions vary widely on the success of the opening ceremonies for the Paris Olympics, but the city’s gallery owners are united in frustration over the sporting event.
• BTW, did you know that art used to be an Olympic sport?
• Despite threatening rhetoric and attempts to politicize, funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities was overwhelmingly supported in Congress last week.
• The Trellis Art Fund announced its inaugural grantees, including American Artist and Ja’Tovia Gary, who joined us for Cinema Revival in 2021.
• Jane Fonda is once again partnering with Gagosian to raise funds for the fight against toxic drilling.
• In Austria, German artist Anne Imhof’s public installation of LGBTQ-friendly banners was vandalized.
• Artnet looked back at the 20th century French psychiatric hospital that saw the birth of the Art Brut movement.
• And The Yale Review offered a history lesson on how conservatives killed FDR’s Federal Theatre Project.
• It’s official: NFTs are dying.
• Creative Boom offered some advice for creatives on how to survive the next 15 years against the onslaught of AI.
• YouTuber Persistent Bloom offered a take on why art schools are closing.
• Wednesday, the Sundance Institute is hosting a free virtual conversation with the filmmakers behind recent Wex premiere and early Oscar contender Sing Sing.
• With the release of the belated sequel Twisters, some are wondering why Hollywood is shying away from the climate crisis.
• The Guardian covered the British program InterAct, in which actors provide personal dramatic readings for stroke patients.
• Artforum chimed in on BRAT Summer.
• Scientists have found a new way to listen to Pink Floyd—by extracting it from listeners’ brain waves.
• Organizers of the sci fi-focused Hugo Awards are dealing with a minor scandal.
• If you’re looking for a new pool read, here are eight new novels about the art world.
• There’s also a new book that’s collected special childhood memories from the likes of Vaginal Davis, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ai Wei Wei, and more.
• Legendary British blues musician John Mayall died at 90.