Weekend reading: June 25 edition

Around Columbus

• Did you hear? We’ll be back in the Film/Video Theater for in-person film screenings starting July 9.
• For Comfest weekend, here’s a tribute to Columbus festival crowd mainstay Babachu.
• Next time you're in the Short North, check out the honkin’ big piece of public art going up at W. Hubbard and High. 
• Saturday night brings the Pride Art and Fashion Show to COSI, adjacent to Franklinton Pride.
• It’s about time: Nina West is now officially a Disney princess. Here’s what you can expect from the entertainer’s Disney+ musical, debuting online this Sunday.
• This week, the CCAD Art Sign celebrated its 20th anniversary on the Columbus skyline.
• Actors' Theatre continues its season of alternative approaches to Shakespeare with The African Company Presents Richard III, which runs through July 18.
• The numbers have been crunched and to date, Ohio arts organizations have lost over $130 million due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• David Horn has been named interim executive dean for Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences.
• Columbus Monthly has a profile of writer and Ohio State professor Elissa Washuta, who recently debuted a memoir in essays format.

Around the globe

• Wednesday night, you can stream a free conversation between Daughters of the Dust filmmaker Julie Dash, Black Chick Media founder Keya Crenshaw, and actress Bahni Turpin via Brooklyn Public Library. (We’ll be presenting Daughters at the Wex August 13 as part of our upcoming in-person film series The Big Picture.)
• The Criterion Collection is adding a wealth of animation to its streaming options in July, including works by Don Hertzfeldt, Satoshi Kon, and Jan Švankmajer.
• George Clooney, Kerry Washington, and Mindy Kaling are among the A-listers collaborating on a new film and TV production school in Los Angeles for underserved communities.
• Writers Wesley Morris and Mark Harris discussed how film has shaped Americans’ ideas about democracy.
• Amid all the cord cutting and streaming wars, Turner Classic Movies has maintained one of the most devoted audiences on television. 
• Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight has deemed the 26 foot-tall sculpture of Marilyn Monroe unveiled in Palm Springs last weekend, “a colossal monument to misogyny.”
• Jennifer Reeder is back in the news this week for her take on Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby. (FYI, we'll have a new short by Reeder and Nancy Andrews in The Box next month.)
• Here’s a piece on aphantasia, a condition that prevents the mind from generating mental imagery, and how artists like Pixar animator Glen Keane are able to work despite it.
• Dance Magazine included Miguel Gutierrez and Ohio State alum Abby Zbikowski in its “30 over 30” list.
• ICYMI, earlier this month dance artists Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Reiner connected with living legend Patti Smith to praise Gerhard Richter.
• Watch this new database to keep track of diversity efforts—or lack thereof—in the performance field.
• Long before many of us ended up glued to screens for over a year, the legendarily brilliant and eccentric pianist Glenn Gould proved that one could live a life heavily mediated by technology. 
• Lia Gangitano, founder of New York art space Participant Inc., has thoughts on the cultural role of museums.
• President Joe Biden has added new members to the National Council on the Arts, including John Prine’s widow Fiona Whelan Prine and Apollo Theater Executive Producer Kamilah Forbes.
• Here’s the latest crop of artists and organizations to benefit from grants distributed by The Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
• New Airbnb listing: stay in the first home ever designed by Antoni Gaudi for just $1 a night.
• Feminist art historian Moira Roth passed away at the age of 87.
• Marcel Duchamp scholar Arturo Schwarz died this week at 97.
• And Diego Cortez, the filmmaker and curator who cofound Mudd Club and whose historic New York/New Wave exhibition helped launch the career of Jean-Michel Basquiat, died at the age of 75.