Weekend Reading: May 31 Edition

Around Ohio

• Sunday at Gramercy Books, Maggie Smith will be signing freshly released paperback copies of You Could Make This Place Beautiful.
• Elevate Northland hosts an arts showcase Sunday afternoon.
• The Greater Columbus Arts Council announced the recipients of its inaugural community-reviewed artist project grants. Among them are a number of artists with Wex connections including former Film/Video Studio Editor Mike Olenick, past Studio Residency Artist Melissa Vogley Woods, and past Wex Artist Residency Award recipient Brian Harnetty.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art has returned a 2200-year-old sculpture to Libya.
• Cleveland’s Artists Archives of the Western Reserve has a call for entries through July 21 for its biannual exhibition NewNow.
• Wild Goose Creative is seeking submissions through June 28 for its annual show Art and Soul.
• The Short North Arts District is seeking artist concepts for two new outdoor art projects: a mural at 700 N. High that’s open for submissions through June 20 and a mural at 1206 N. Fourth Street that artists can apply for through July 5.
• Matter connected with artist, retiring educator, and local treasure Dan Gerdeman.
• Available Light Theatre announced its 2024–25 season, which launches September 19 with Adrian Einspanier’s Lunch Bunch.
• Guy Fieri said Flavortown Fest isn’t dead.
• The Phoenix Theatre at Lennox has a free, kid-friendly summer movie series kicking off Tuesday afternoon.
• Tuesday evening, the Columbus Ohio Discovery Ensemble (CODE) will showcase the solo skills of its performers in a free concert at Short North Stage.
• Also Tuesday, at Seventh Son Brewing, Cartoon Crossroads Columbus will reveal the special guests for its 2024 edition.
• Road trip alert: Dawes Arboretum in Licking County has an installation of giant bug sculptures by artist David Rogers.
• Thursday, Lindsay Gallery hosts a reception for the new show Contemporary Cuban Outsiders, featuring work by artists including Jose Grau Brio and Rosa Maria Barrios Hernandez.
• Also Thursday, artist Laura Sanders shows off some new paintings at Contemporary Art Matters.
• Thursday in Bexley, writers Hanif Abdurraqib and Franny Choi will have a chat at the public library.
• Next Friday kicks off the Columbus Arts Festival. Along with lots of art to view and purchase, there are highlights like an arts fest edition of Writers’ Block Poetry and the Fashion as Art Runway Show. Don’t forget to stop by the Wex booth and say hi.
• The Nobo Arts Summer Marketplace is also next weekend at the Lincoln Theatre.
• And Saturday, it’s 700 Studio Night at 700 Bryden Road, which includes a collage party with Emily Morgan.

Around the Globe

• Our new Tanya Lakin Linklater exhibition leads this piece from ARTnews about the museum shows to see this summer.
• The ransomware gang behind the recent cyberattack on Christie’s is threatening to release the auction house’s client info.
• Flooding is threatening the 14th Bienal do Mercosul in Brazil.
• Catherine Opie got the feature treatment from the L.A. Times.
• Artnet illuminated the complicated relationship between Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas.
• Pre-Raphaelite painter John William Waterhouse is finding a new audience through the George Miller film Furiosa.
• Sean Baker was the big winner at Cannes with his film Anora.
• Richard Linklater talked up his new film, Hit Man.
• Here’s an oral history of Spike Lee’s Crooklyn to celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary.
• The New York Times looked at how Asian American stories like Everything Everywhere All at Once are helping to create more comfort with subtitles.
• The distributor of Dinesh D’Souza’s 2022 documentary 2,000 Mules has pulled the film and issued an apology.
• PBS documentarian Ken Burns went viral with his address to the Brandeis University class of 2024.
• Netflix Head Ted Sarandos discussed his plans to keep you binging…
• …Maybe with things like the new Netflix doc Dancing with the Devil, about a cult that lured followers via TikTok.
• Following charges of fraud by Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough, Tennessee’s attorney general is investigating an attempt to sell the Graceland Mansion at auction. Meanwhile, an identity thief has stepped forward to claim responsibility for the situation.
• The public is finally getting a limited chance to experience the $4 million Wu-Tang Clan album The Wu—Once Upon a Time In Shaolin.
• Shay Latukolan, the choreographer behind the new video from Childish Gambino, discussed the thinking behind his infectious moves.
• Innocence, a school-shooting inspired opera that was the last work by the late Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, made its US debut.
• Yo Yo Ma expressed his love for his 300-year-old cello, Petunia.
• The Public Theater is offering free streams of Shakespeare in the Park productions of works such as Richard III and Much Ado About Nothing through June 30.
• Adobe has irked creatives with a marketing campaign for Photoshop that reads as dismissive of the work of human photographers.
• Chris Ware was awarded France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. The comic artist visited the Wex during the 2017 Cartoon Crossroads Columbus fest
• French post office La Poste has issued a series of scratch-and-sniff baguette-themed stamp designs.
• Considering examples from The Mona Lisa to Taylor Swift, NPR took a stab at determining the recipe for fame.
• Historian and The Alienist author Caleb Carr died at the age of 68.