Weekend reading: June 12 edition

Around Columbus

• Monday afternoon, Wex Director Johanna Burton will be a panelist for an online discussion about the role of land grant universities in addressing racial tensions.
• Columbus Arts Fest in Place is online all weekend.
• Moonlight Market returns to Gay Street tomorrow.
• Discussions are underway about how to preserve the mural art made in response to the George Floyd protests.
• The Columbus Symphony Orchestra announced there will be no Picnic with the Pops this year.
• Kari Gunter-Seymour of Athens County is Ohio’s new Poet Laureate.
• Forbes has a piece on our friend Bryan Moss and his inclusion in the Harvard University Hutchins Center exhibition Elektrik Revival: Remixing The Black Speculative South.
• Radio614 is adding new shows to its schedule.
• The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum has a new playlist.

Around the globe

• Art Basel is canceled.
• Saturday at 3 PM EDT, Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrisse Cullor will perform “a public act of mourning” to launch the Fowler Museum’s Pride event
• Here’s a take on the past week’s monument toppling from artists Tracey Emin, Anish Kapoor, and Jake Chapman.
• In related news, Paper offers the guide, “Find more Confederate landmarks to dismantle near you.”
• New York theaters have opened their lobbies to protesters.
• So has the Brooklyn Museum.
• Protesters have turned the fencing erected around the White House into an art gallery.
• The Smithsonian has already started collecting art from the protests.
• There are new works inspired by George Floyd from street artists Banksy and JR.
• Developers have been busy creating apps to help protesters avoid surveillance.
• Hyperallergic delves into the racist origins of the word “looting.”
• Krumping godfather Jo'Artis Ratti discusses his protest dance in front of a line of LAPD.
• The Guardian looks at how Hollywood has tried—and failed—to tackle police racism onscreen.
• Hong Kong artists have created a free speech forum in response to the crackdown from China.
• The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is happening online through June 20.
• The investigative work of British art collective Forensic Architecture may reopen the case of Mark Duggan, a 29 year-old black man shot by police in North London.
• Artforum talks to Dread Scott about art and rebellion.
• Artist Adrian Brandon has drawn portraits of African Americans killed by police, allowing only one minute to color for each year the victim was alive.
• TikTok has gone from viral dance crazes to social justice messages.
• In response to the number-one ranking of The Help on Netflix, the film’s costar, Bryce-Dallas Howard, costar of The Help, offered a list of better suggestions. One of them, Ava DuVernay’s 13th (pictured at top of page), is currently being offered for free by Netflix on YouTube. (We have some suggestions here.)
• Here’s a behind-the-scenes on Da 5 Bloods, the new Netflix film from Spike Lee.
• Tuesday night, the New York Public Library offers a discussion between comedian W. Kamau Bell and fantasy writer NK Jemisin about Afrofuturism and her new book, The City We Became.
• Dave Chappelle has dropped an unexpected special on YouTube.
• Longtime Hollywood Reporter film writer David Rooney offers a personal history of gay cinema.
• Artist Zhang Huan shares his pandemic diary with Art News.
• The University of Virginia has created a course for med students about how art has advanced our understanding of epidemics.
• You’re probably already thinking more about door handles than you ever expected. Lean in with this history of the object.
• Mad Magazine artist Al Jaffe announced his retirement at the age of 99.
• And here’s a new roundup of studies supporting the idea that the arts promote mental health.