Weekend reading: June 3 edition

Around Columbus

• We strongly recommend you check out the last week of coverage from Columbus Alive (and not just because this writer is mentioned in one of the pieces).
• Tuesday, Seventh Son is hosting the announcement party for this year’s Cartoon Crossroads Columbus.
• Also Tuesday, Celeste Malvar-Stewart will lead a tour of her one-woman exhibition at the MAC.
• Rest up for next weekend: our Portal For(e) the Ephemeral Passage Preview Party on Thursday rolls right into the Columbus Arts Festival on the Scioto Mile…
• And don’t forget Franklinton Friday, which has a Pride theme with LGBTQ-centered shows at 400 Square and The Vanderelli Room, among other venues.
• Next Friday also brings the experimental and improvised music event Future Further Fest to Old First Presbyterian Church.
• And Saturday brings a street festival to Parsons Ave., courtesy of Church and Community Development for All People.
• One last stop for next weekend: Friday and Saturday, NOBO Arts is hosting a summer marketplace with wares from over 40 vendors including visual artist Sir’ra Aesthetics and fashion designer Aita Carmichael.

Around the globe

• Colossal has a call for artwork to be placed in a Brooklyn Art Library time capsule that will be opened in 2072.
• For more immediate gratification, there’s the Slamdance Film Fest; its submissions portal for 2023 is officially open.
• In an essay that feels like it could be speaking to our summer exhibition, ArtReview covered the return of the influence of magic in art.
• The New York Times profiled landscape architect Julie Bargmann and her work on contaminated and postindustrial sites.
• Here’s a piece on the role of Black and brown women like Angyil in the revitalization of street dance.
• NPR covered the tough realities of trying to be a touring musician.
• Alt pop legend Kate Bush is having a moment.
• With subtitles becoming more accepted by the masses, Vulture delved into the inherent translation challenges in subtitling works in a foreign language.
• For Pride month, here’s a feature on silent screen star Alla Nazimova, “the founding mother of Sapphic Hollywood.”
• Artforum’s Amy Taubin spoke to David Cronenberg about his latest, Crimes of the Future.
• Here’s a roundup of the awards bestowed at the Cannes Film Fest, including Ruben Ostlund’s Palme d’Or win for his latest, Triangle of Sadness; his previous film, the art world satire The Square, played the Wex in 2017.
• The LA Times offered advice on how to get a job as a film production designer.
• Legislators in Wisconsin are playing a dicey game with the funds allocated to arts orgs in the state by the National Endowment for the Arts.
• If imagination is crucial to creativity, why isn’t Imagination Studies taught in schools?
• Hugely influential artist, curator, and historian Samella Lewis passed away at the age of 99.
• We’ll sign off with the week’s weirdest story from the art world.