Forty years ago this Sunday, Iggy Pop — 23-year-old front man of The Stooges, a defiantly loud and grungy Detroit band — created Rock & Roll mythology at the Cincinnati Summer Pop Festival. Bare-chested, singing "T.V. Eye," he scrambled from the outdoor stage at Crosley Field and went into the crowd, climbing atop the shoulders of frenzied fans to stand above them, like Jesus on water, held up by their sea of hands as he pointed outward. The image, captured on video and still photography, has become iconic.  

On June 13, 1970, Grand Funk Railraod, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop and the Stooges and many more iconic bands took over Crosley Field at the Cincinnati Pop Festival. This Sunday, revisit this moment as the Main Library screens Midsummer Rock.  

The Contemporary Arts Center had to delay its Ernesto Neto: Dancing Allowed show — originally scheduled for last March — as part of its various budgetary restraints. It opened May 22, along with Pat Steir’s painting installation Water & Stone, and we can be glad the CAC didn’t have to cancel it.   

Probably the most eagerly awaited regional art museum event this summer isn’t an indoor exhibition at all. It’s the debut (on June 20) of 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park at Indianapolis Museum of Art. But more locally, the Cincinnati Art Museum and Dayton Art Institute both have great summer shows planned.  

Most of the obituaries of Dennis Hopper, who died of prostate cancer May 29 at age 74, have followed a similar narrative arc, saying he wasted his promising start in friend James Dean's 'Rebel Without a Cause' and 'Giant,' then wasted his late '60s re-emergence in 'Easy Rider' and late '70s turn in 'Apocalypse Now.' But Hopper did a lot of fine film work that's waiting to be rediscovered.  

The annual dance party at the Aronoff Center's Weston Art Gallery is turning into one of city's hippest, happeningest fundraising events. This year's edition, WAG It! Warehouse Party, occurs 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Saturday in the secret, usually off-limits "underground" space behind the gallery where DJ Pillo will be creating the beats.  

If you rank the greatest, most historic moments in series television, near the top would have to be an early 1968 episode of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in which Pete Seeger sang his classic “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy,” a pointed, caustic attack on the disastrous Vietnam War and the “big fool” of a U.S. President (Lyndon Johnson) who pushed it. (Yes, it’s more important than Lost’s last episode.)   

Neo-soul crooners Francis and the Lights will open for Canada's hottest rapper, Drake, at Friday's sold-out Bogart's show. Fronted by the distinctive Francis Farewell Starlite, the band creates a New Romantic sound with influence from Bryan Ferry, Spandau Ballet, Human League, Blow Monkeys and ABC and sensual falsetto singing accompanied by synth-infused, heavily percussive Modern Rock.  

Drake, the hot rapper from Canada who has a sold-out Bogart's show Friday, has an unusual background. So it's fitting that he's picked Francis and the Lights for his opening act — they're not rappers but rather a mixture of New Romantic, Neo Soul crooning — think mid-1980s British Pop elegance a la Bryan Ferry, Spandau Ballet, Human League, Blow Monkeys and ABC with sexy post-Prince (and maybe post-Antony) falsetto singing accompanied by synth-infused, heavily percussive Modern Rock.  

Right now, the Carl Solway Gallery has a show important to its remarkable history. Works from the Gallery Collection features pieces by more than 60 major artists who, as the 75-year-old Solway puts it, mostly are “people of my generation or close to it.” But what’s most impressive about the show is the close relationship Solway has had with many of the artists including John Cage, Buckminster Fuller and Nam June Paik.