Weekend reading: July 29 edition

Around Ohio

• We're honored to see our home selected as one of the 10 most influential buildings in the country by Dezeen. Also lovely to see some of architecture from the King Lincoln District also included.
• Climate Changing artist Demian DinéYazhi´ joins Joss Barton for a poetry reading at No Place Gallery on July 29.
• Friend of the Wex and acclaimed cartoonist Jeff Smith recently spoke with The Comics Journal for an in-depth conversation about his work.
• Local critic Hope Madden checked out Neptune Frost in advance of our screenings this weekend.
• The Ohio State Fair is officially underway, and the Fine Arts Exhibition includes works by Corey Aumiller, Dan Gerdeman, TradeMark Gunderson, and Barb Vogel.
• The Riffe Gallery opens Watercolor Ohio 2022 this weekend.
• Saturday, jazz artists Trista Hill and Phil Maneri will play at Streetlight Guild.
• Gabrielle Solange takes to the gazebo this Sunday for the Goodale Park Music Series.
• An immersive, unauthorized installation devoted to Banksy, an artist who’s historically had an antagonistic view of commercialization in the art world, is coming to Columbus.
• CATCO announced its 2022–23 season.
• Columbus Jazz Orchestra also unveiled its upcoming lineup.
• Looking ahead, Friday brings a reception for the Columbus Metropolitan Library exhibition Dare to Be.
• Also Friday, Blockfort hosts an opening reception for Self is Story, featuring work by M.S. Harkness, Marian Teflon, and Gloria Shows.
• And try to leave room in your Friday night for the Reynoldsburg Tomato Festival: Morris Day will be there.

Around the globe

• Second generation filmmaker Panah Panahi spoke up about film censorship in Iran; his father, Jafar Panahi, was sentenced last week to a six-year prison term for his work.
• The Toronto International Film Festival rolled out more of its program for 2022, including new films by Darren Aronofsky (starring a nearly unrecognizable Brendan Fraser), Stephen Frears, and Reginald Hudlin.
• Television icon Norman Lear celebrated his 100th birthday by writing an opinion piece on what one of his best-known characters, right-wing bigot Archie Bunker, would’ve thought of January 6.
• The Ford and Mellon Foundations announced the recipients of the 2022 Disability Futures Fellowship, including Alison O’Daniel and JJJJJerome Ellis.
• Check out art made by members of Residency in Occupation, Ukrainians who’ve been meeting in secret to keep creating during the Russian occupation.
• Some people aren’t happy about Annie Leibovitz’s recently released portraits of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and first lady Olena Zelenska.
• Damien Hirst is making a burn pile with thousands of his artworks.
• The BBC asked, how do museums deal with artworks that are intended to decay?
• Climate change activists in Italy glued themselves to a Botticelli.
• Comic artist Julie Doucet won the grand prize at the 2022 Angoulême International Comics Festival.
• In related news, there’s a new trend in the field of comics that read from bottom to top.
• Coming to Broadway in 2024: Frida, The Musical.
• Performance luminaries such as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Eiko Otake spoke to Harper’s Bazaar about the return to live shows as COVID-19 restrictions have eased.
• We’re sad to report the death of Mable Haddock, founding president of the National Black Publishing Consortium, which she started in Columbus in 1979. She was 74.
• We also lost veteran actor Paul Sorvino at the age of 82.
• And British actor David Warner passed this week at 80. Artist Tacita Dean, who collaborated with him on a Hamlet project, wrote a tribute.