Weekend reading: June 10 edition

Around Ohio

• This weekend brings the return of the Columbus Arts Fest.
• Saturday, Meghan Willis debuts new embroidered works at Lindsay Gallery.
• Also Saturday, The Vanderelli Room is hosting Queer Art Night.
• And don’t forget Keioui Keijaun Thomas’ performance Saturday night as part of opening week events for our summer show.
• Here’s a fascinating look at the evolving goals of arts institutions around the world, featuring the Toledo Museum of Art.
• The Dispatch put together an alphabet of notable signage around Columbus.
• Columbus Monthly has a new essay by Prince Shakur on staying resilient during protest.
• Here are the five people to be featured at Wednesday’s event from the Columbus Storytellers Project.
• And Wednesday, author Margaret Atwood speaks at the Palace Theatre.

Around the globe

• The New York Times shared portraits of the 2022 Tony Award nominees, including Uzo Aduba, Ruth Negga, and playwright Paula Vogel.
• Lena Horne will posthumously become the first Black woman to have a Broadway theater named after her.
• Has the theater world moved past the age of celebrating tyrannical “great men”?
• Edinburgh’s Festival Fringe is getting a makeover.
• For Pride Month, NBC News spotlighted 30 emerging LGBTQ leaders, including Indigenous dance artist and queer activist Sherenté Mishitashin Harris and writer-illustrator John Paul Bramme.
• Neptune Frost opened in New York last weekend, and critics are raving about the latest from hyphenate artist Saul Williams (it’s coming to the Wex next month).
• John Waters is getting some much-deserved love from the Academy Museum.
• If you think Hollywood movies push liberal politics, think again.
• Ira Glass fears we’re losing the war against disinformation.
• Here’s the latest warning that A.I. could replace artists and writers.
• A new book questions whether suffering is required to be an artist.
• The latest profile from Art21 is the amazing comic artist Chris Ware.
• The Italian city of Murano is struggling to maintain its rep as the global epicenter of art glass.
• Here’s an op-ed on the role that arts and culture can have in reducing crime in neighborhoods.
• A new study has found that the majority of art museums focus on less than five percent of working artists.
• Jazz great Bill Frisell shared his top 10 tips for guitarists.
• Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan is finally sharing his illustrations in a new book.
• Artist Paula Rego passed away at the age of 87.