Weekend Reading: May 26 Edition

Around Ohio

• Kudos to COSI for winning a prestigious National Medal for Museum and Library Service.
• Local “culture warrior” Richard Duarte Brown spoke to Matter News about his new show at Streetlight Guild.
• Columbus Monthly paid tribute to Rahsaan Roland Kirk to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a legendary local performance by the great jazz artist.
• Greater Columbus Arts Council announced the launch of an initiative to create a public art plan. We’re the only city among the 14 largest in the country without one.
• The Cleveland Public Library Foundation is among the most recent round of grantees from Art for Justice, founded by Agnes Gund and focused on incarcerated artists reentering society.
• Cincinnati gallery owner Paul Kroner opened a show dedicated to AI art.
• Thursday, Urban Arts Space opens Irrepressible Soul, which aims to foster understanding of “Blackness” through a dense schedule of immersive art events.
• Thursday also brings the opening of a new show by Angela Oster to Rivet.
• Flashing forward to next weekend, Available Light Theatre opens its latest, Cry it Out, Friday at The Wellington School.
• Friday, the Priscilla Tyson Cultural Arts Center opens Water is Life. The reception will feature a reading by poet and Wex Learning & Public Practice Head Dionne Custer Edwards. The show, curated by April Sunami in conjunction with the International Water Dances Project, offers an A-list of artists such as Marcus Blackwell, Reagan Buchanan, Catherine Bell Smith, Dana Lynn Harper, and Lisa McLymont.
• And 934 Gallery opens its latest, My Body, My Joy, on Friday.

Around the globe

• Veteran performer D’Arcy Drollinger has the honor of being San Francisco’s first ever Drag Laureate.
• A Tschabala Self sculpture of a Black woman was spray painted white by vandals in England last week, and Self’s sculpture wasn’t the only one attacked.
• Here’s the story behind the parent who successfully had access to the poem Amanda Gorman recited at Joe Biden’s inauguration restricted in a Florida school.
• Kara Walker got a major new commission from SFMOMA.
• German activist group Letzte Generation is working to pivot from the spate of attacks on artworks by climate activists by collaborating with museums, instead.
• Here’s one take on how the SCOTUS decision involving Andy Warhol, a portrait of Prince, and copyright infringement could affect artists.
• With all the data to support that making art improves mood comes this primer on simple ways to add more creativity to your activities.
• Artforum wants to hear from its readers.
• The newly branded Max says it will fix its much-maligned “creator” credits, which bury the artists most closely associated with films such as Raging Bull.
• Wim Wenders’s latest, Perfect Days, is among the high-profile acquisitions from the Cannes Film Fest.
• Jane Fonda got some attention for a no-holds-barred public conversation at Cannes.
• It’s Suntory time again for Sofia Coppola.
• Writer Kris Kneen shared how she’s using burlesque to end a lifetime of shame about her size.
• British novelist Martin Amis died at 73.
• Kenneth Anger, the iconoclastic queer filmmaker—the Wex showed his Fireworks just last week—and co-author of the classic dirt disher Hollywood Babylon, died at the age of 96.
• This week also brought the loss of the phenomenal Tina Turner at the age of 83. Here’s a heartfelt tribute.