Weekend reading: June 11 edition

Around Ohio

• ICYMI, a solo exhibition by abstract painter Jacqueline Humphries is coming to the Wex in September.
• Tobi De’Ja Nicol Ewing has a closing reception for her show The Reappearing Dream Saturday 1–4 PM at Maroon Arts Group's MPACC Gallery.
• Saturday, Franklin Park Conservatory opens Resilience in Nature: We Are the Roses that Grew from the Concrete, a juried exhibition organized in collaboration with All People Arts, Creative Women of Color, Maroon Arts Group, and TRANSIT ARTS.
• Saturday night brings the annual fundraiser auction Art for Franklinton, featuring large-scale works by artists including David Gentilini and Jen Wrubleski. 
• Wednesday, Reel Abilities Film Festival Columbus will present a two-day virtual run of the documentary Don’t Foil My Plans (pictured at top of page).
• There’s a new group show at ROY G BIV with Mona Gazala and Shanna Merola among the contributing artists.
• Artist Amy Leibrand created an eggy exhibition for the dollhouse-sized S.Dot Gallery.
• If you haven’t been to campus recently, here’s a slideshow of the progress of Ohio State’s arts district at 15th and High.
• And the University District is looking for the next group of artists to continue its street beautification project Trash to Treasure.
• The new Summer Jam West mural went up in Hilltop this week.
• Hanif Abdurraqib has teamed with WOSU for the interview podcast Small Joys.
• Poser, the feature debut of Loose Films, is seeing some positive attention at Tribeca.
• Nicole Riegel, an Ohio-based filmmaker making waves with her indie feature Holler, encouraged other Appalachia natives to tell their own stories.

Around the globe

• Climate Changing contributor Constantina Zavitsanos and Wex Learning & Public Practice collaborator Saeed Jones are among the artists named as 2022 Mentors by LGBTQ+ advocacy nonprofit Queer|Art.
• Hollywood Reporter checked in with Junior LaBeija, a memorable emcee in the classic doc Paris is Burning, for his thoughts on the groundbreaking FX series Pose and the entertainment industry’s treatment of LGBTQ stories.
• Indiewire compiled a list of the 35 best LGBTQ movies of the 21st century; films by Wex favorites such as Todd Haynes and Apichatpong Weerasethakul made the cut.
• Kodak’s decision to quietly discontinue a certain type of color film stock has archivists worrying about what it means for the future of experimental film preservation.
• Oscar-nominated actor Riz Ahmed funded a study that found a severe lack of Muslim portrayals in American film.
• There was a big fire in Marfa last Friday and it seriously damaged Donald Judd’s Architecture Office.
• In the Art in America series “Hard Choices,” you’re invited to take quizzes to see if you should be an art critic or a museum curator.
• Hito Stereyl talked about how she used the game Minecraft as a remote learning teaching tool.
• A New York organization that works with the city’s elderly community has teamed with the Metropolitan Museum of Art to distribute art making kits to seniors.
• In other Met news, the museum will repatriate two Benin Bronzes currently in its collection to Nigeria.
• Here are the long-awaited details on New York City’s Artist Corp Grants Program, the city’s WPA-inspired project to put artists back to work.
• Legacy Russell is the next Executive Director of New York City performance space The Kitchen, and the first Black woman to fill the role (her predecessor, Tim Griffin, is the husband of Wex Executive Director Johanna Burton).
• Tom Waits released the first in a series of playlists encompassing various aspects of his music, entitled “Throw Words Like Rice.”
• Oxford University Press announced it will close its printing arm.
• Here’s an interesting piece on how live-streaming fits into the history of public access programming.
• Here’s a piece on how, during the pandemic, podcasters filled the hole left by not seeing real friends.
• Yoshi Wada, a member of the Fluxus performance art movement, has passed away at the age of 77.
• Legendary exhibition designer Stuart Silver also left us at 84.
• And Dick Robinson, the man who spent nearly five decades turning Scholastic Books into an instrumental force for encouraging young readers, died at the age of 84.