Weekend reading: May 13 edition

Around Ohio

• The collage work of Wex Performing Arts staffer Adam Elliott is on view in a new show at Secret Studio.
• Sunday, the Columbus Museum of Art is hosting a talk with Richard Duarte Brown on the topic of “Black love as resilience.”
• In artist call-for-entries news, submission portals are now open for ROY G BIV Gallery’s ImageOhio , the return of the Franklin County Treasurer’s Office annual exhibition at Government Center, and the 2022 Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition.
• Thursday, Celeste Malvar-Stewart has a new show opening at the McConnell Arts Center that will also feature the premiere of a documentary about her work.
• Friday, Acock Associates Architects will present work by George Acock and Dennison Griffith.
• Next Friday and Saturday, The Fuse Factory will host Frequency Festival at its new home basic in the Columbus Cultural Arts Center.
• Saturday brings the annual charity auction Art for Franklinton to Gravity.
• Also Saturday, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum opens the show STILL… Racism in America.
• And in art news elsewhere in the state, the Toledo Museum of Art got a word lashing from Los Angeles Times critic Christopher Knight over a deaccession plan underway there.

Around the globe

• Experimental film fans, now through May 23, Exquisite Moving Corpse, an hour-long compilation of mini films by artists including William Wegman and Mel Chin, is streaming for free.
• It seems that Barbara Kruger will never want for reasons to revisit Your Body is a Battleground.
• The Tony nominations were announced this week, and there were some surprising snubs.
• Winners of the 2022 Pulitzer Prizes also dropped. The honorees include New York Times critic Salamishah Tillet and the producers of the podcast Suave.
• Here’s a rundown on the third annual Marfa Invitational.
• The Ford and Mellon Foundations jointly announced recipients of the 2022 Latinx Artist Fellowship.
• The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced its latest roster of artists-in-residence. The list includes past Wex guest Stephanie Syjuco.
• And there are some familiar names in the list of new members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, including Sam Gilliam, Miguel Gutierrez, and Jason Moran.
• Bob Dylan unveiled his largest sculpture ever.
• Diana Al-Hadid won a legal battle with Marianne Boesky Gallery.
• Once a contemporary dance hub, Seattle isn’t quite the welcoming destination for movement artists that it used to be.
• But in better news out of Seattle, the city has launched the project Hope Corps, a New Deal-style effort to put artists to work.
• There’s a new Russian website that’s selling art to support the invasion, including a lot of fakes.
• Here’s a fun conversation between Jonny Banger, Jarvis Cocker, and Jeremy Deller about fashion and other art pursuits.
• A review of over 100 academic studies has found that people working in the performing arts are twice as likely to suffer from depression as the general population.
• And a study funding by the Knight Foundation and Catchlight found that the pandemic has exacerbated racial disparities in the field of photography.
• Every art lover’s nightmare became a reality for an elderly American tourist in Italy, who tripped and fell into a 17th century Guido Reni painting, ripping it.
• Brooklyn Rail published a tribute to late artist Lance De Los Reyes.
• The New Yorker did the same for self-taught artist Matthew Wong, who died by suicide in 2019.
• Legendary comic artist George Pérez died at the age of 67.
• And actor Fred Ward, known for films like The Player and The Right Stuff, passed away at 79.