Weekend reading: May 8 edition

Around Columbus

• Flyover Fest has livestream offerings through Saturday in place of canceled in-person events.
• A very low key Franklinton Fridays is happening tonight. There’s art on view in the Open Air Gallery next to Vanderelli Room and on “art cubes” erected as part of the Gravity Uplifts project. There’s also a (sanitized) message in a bottle hunt with raffle prizes 
• ROY G BIV has packed its online space with new shows by over a half-dozen artists.
• The winners of the Film Columbus Stuck at Home Film Contest are now streaming.
• Drive-Ins around the state have been given the OK to open for the season and South Drive-In has unveiled its extensive plan to keep moviegoers safe.
• Ohio State’s College of Engineering has worked with the College of Nursing Innovation Lab to create a method for 3D-printing face shields for first responders.
• Columbus Museum of Art Executive Director Nanette Maciejunes offers a local perspective on the Association of Art Museum Directors’ recent decision to relax the rules temporarily around selling artwork from institutional collections.
• The fourth annual edition of ArtPop Street Gallery has selected artists for this year. Their work will be seen on billboards and other public media around town. 
• Congrats to Columbus paper sculptor Cheong-Ah Hwang for her win of the National Sculpture Society’s Marilyn Newmark Memorial Grant. (hummingbird image above via papernoodle.com)
• If you’re in the mood for a Zoom background that’s a little more fantastical than our Wex offerings, check out the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library’s backgrounds by Little Nemo in Slumberland creator Windsor McKay.
• Sourdough starters are out, seed starters are in. Here’s a local guide to beginning a food garden to match your tastes.

Around the globe

• Kickstarter has launched a new initiative to allow cultural organizations to crowdfund operating costs.
• It feels like a good time to reshare Creative Capital's regularly updated list of arts resources for those whose livelihoods have been affected by coronavirus closures.
• The online edition of Frieze New York opens today. Here’s one opinion on highlights to check out, and here’s another.
• The contemporary design fair Collective Design has returned as part of Frieze this year.
• Tonight at 9:15 PM, there’s a watch party for the kung fu classic Shaolin vs. Wu Tang with live commentary by Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA.
• Tomorrow at 4 PM, artist Liza Lou will host a live virtual studio visit with Carrie Mae Weems on Instagram Live as part of the initiative Apartogether.
• Online tours are now available for anime mecca the Ghibli Museum.
• Curators Han Hongzheng and Chandler Allen have curated an exhibition for the internet of Asian artists in America in response to the uptick in racially-motivated incidents since the arrival of coronavirus.
• And a group of artists have launched an online project to compile stories of COVID-related racism.
• A group of 400 women photographers have launched WP: The Journal, a project to chronicle their own lives during the public health crisis.
• The National Museum of Women in the Arts has online exhibitions featuring Graciela Iturbide’s photographs Mexico and epic fiber works by Delita Martin.
• Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight has won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for criticism.
• And This American Life won the first-ever Pulitzer for audio reporting.
• An international criminal investigation led to the seizure of 19,000 stolen objects from art traffickers.
• Calling all Ray Johnson fans: mail art is making a resurgence.
• Icelandic fiber artist Ýr Jóhannsdóttir has some inspiration for any knitters thinking about mask appliques (seen above).
• Artists Against an #Infodemic is now holding a rolling review of submissions to share public health info with underserved communities. A wide variety of formats are being considered.
• The complete May/June issue of Artforum, called “our record of this time” by editor David Velasco, is online now with responses from artists including Yoko Ono and Luc Tuymans.
• Over a dozen performances from the Merce Cunningham Centennial Repertory Festival are being made available online as of this week, with a new video posted every Monday.
• Juxtapoz shares this BBC documentary about Kraftwerk to mark the passing of cofounder Florian Schneider.
• Lorna Simpson opens up about life while sheltering and the process of returning to her art practice.
• It’s not just your happy hour buddies; this aquarium wants you to video chat with its lonely eels.
• Congratulations to past Wex visitors Chase Whiteside and Erick Stoll; their documentary América is up for a Peabody Award alongside the likes of Fleabag and HBO’s Watchmen.
• Are movie theaters really on the way out? Time film critic Stephanie Zacharek contends that it’s a bad time to try to make that case.
• Filmmaker Paul Schrader has thoughts on how to save film festivals.
• Here’s how Andy Warhol approached the business side of making art. 
• And for anyone staying home with the family you chose, some #weekendgoals: This is some next-level Instagram work by a group of NYC roommates sheltering together.

Happy Mother's Day to all the caretakers out there. Back with more next week.