Weekend reading: July 9 edition

Around Columbus

• Saturday at 5 PM, Open Door Art Studio & Gallery hosts an opening for its popular annual show This Inspired That, this year done in collaboration with the artists of Blockfort.
• Also Saturday night, Gathering Stars takes the outdoor stage at Secret Studio.
• And Moonlight Market brings 100 craftspeople and other vendors to Gay Street Saturday night.
• Sunday afternoon, families are invited to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum to join in outdoor chalk drawing with artist Hilary Frambes.
• Lindsay Gallery is back with a Sunday opening of its first group show in over a year, featuring the talents of Ricky Barnes, Antoinette Savage, and more.
• And at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center on Sunday, printmaker Karen Albanese Campbell opens her solo exhibition Relationships with the Natural World.
• Monday, the newly transplanted Wild Goose Creative hosts an online lunchtime program on process and time management for artists.
• Wednesday, The ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus begins a free stream of 25 Prospect Street, a documentary about a movie theater dedicated to employing people with disabilities.
• And Thursday, Greater Columbus Arts Council hosts an online workshop with Art Possible Ohio about how increased arts access can be folded into an organization’s aesthetic.
• Coming soon to Franklinton: a giant slingshot statue by neighborhood-based artist Andrew Lundberg.
• Moviola just dropped a video for the title track of its new album, Broken Rainbows.
• Here’s a story on how local designers are working with nonprofit Rahab’s Hope of Ohio to make an inviting space for survivors of human trafficking.
• And in other good news, fabric artist DonCee Coulter shared his process with WOSU-TV’s Broad and High.
   

Around the globe

• Tuesday afternoon, reps from indie film distributors like Neon and IFC Films will take part in a panel about the state of independent film in the streaming era.
• On Thursday afternoon, film lovers also have the option of Zooming into the free webinar “Reconsidering AAPI Documentary at a Time of anti-AAPI Violence,” with B. Ruby Rich moderating and panelists such as filmmaker Grace Lee.
• AMC Networks is producing short videos to provide context for problematic films and TV shows such as Sixteen Candles and Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
• Here’s a story about Spike Lee’s sartorially resplendent debut as president of the jury at this year’s Cannes Film Fest.
• For those of us who couldn’t make the trip to the Riviera this year, select titles from the festival are streaming for free through July 17 as part of MyFrenchFilmFestival, including a documentary about Leos Carax, whose new musical Annette opened Cannes on Tuesday. 
• Also at Cannes, Agnieszka Holland spoke up about the danger of indie film voices being drowned out on large streaming services.
• Ta-Nehisi Coates and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist behind the 1619 Project, have joined the faculty at Howard University.
• Hannah-Jones also issued a statement about her alma mater, the University of North Carolina, and its decision to deny her tenure.
• The New-York Historical Society is expanding to create a museum dedicated to LGBTQ history and culture.
• The National Museum of Natural History, in an unprecedented move for the institution, is using art to convey the effects of climate change.
• Here’s a gallery of work by the young photographers chosen to receive Getty inclusion scholarships.
• Tuition at the Yale School of Drama will now be free, thanks to a donation of $150 million from David Geffen.
• A researcher at the University of William and Mary warns we’re facing a “creativity crisis.”
• Richard Donner, the veteran director behind The Goonies and Superman, died at the age of 91.
• And Robert Downey, Sr., Putney Swope filmmaker and father of Robert Downey, Jr., passed away after a long struggle with Parkinson’s.