Weekend reading: August 7 edition

Around Columbus

• Ohio State University professors Jodi Acuff and Dana Carlisle Kletchka talk about The Carters’ "APES**T" music video, filmed at the Louvre, and the future of engagement in art museums.
• New virtual & in-person opening tonight of 934 Gallery show: Attractive Nuisances: Holly Wilson
• New Open Door Art Studio online show is now live.
• The curator tour for the new Riffe Gallery exhibition is now streaming.

Around the Nation

• Steve McQueen's new project will open the newly hybridized New York Film Festival in September.
• Columbus-based artist Stephanie Rond featured in Artsy (with a special appearance by Wex Director of Learning and Public Programs Dionne Custer Edwards).
• Long-lost silent film discovered in Chicago Film Archives.
• Deadly explosions in Beirut destroy art venues.
• The story of how artist Alexis Franklin came to make the portrait of Breonna Taylor for O Magazine.
• The Ice Factory goes online. This is what happened.
• New Bomb Turks (featuring the Wex's Matt Reber on bass), reissue their fifth album, Nightmare Scenario. Reber discusses the record. Proceeds from purchases go to BQIC and the Columbus Freedom Fund.