Weekend Reading: July 5 Edition

Around Columbus

• The recent press coverage on our Musicals! A Summer World Tour film series has been music to our ears! Check out recent features in the Columbus Dispatch and Columbus Underground. The series kicks off with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg on Saturday, July 6.
• Also music to the ears? This Musicals!-inspired playlist by DJ Citizen Dorian S.
• Our Jonas N.T. Becker exhibition received this insightful look in Brooklyn Rail.
• We loved seeing the good people from NAICCO and their food truck featured in Ohio Magazine.
• Recently retired Wex security guard Deji Adebuga celebrates a retrospective of his artwork on July 13 at 700 Bryden.
• The Columbus Black Theatre celebrates its twelfth festival, which starts July 5 and runs through July 7. This year’s fest features eight one-act plays.
• Our friends at Urban Arts celebrate the opening of the new exhibition No One Teaches Us How to Be Daughters showcasing work by poet Ajanaé Dawkins on July 11.
• If you missed Ohio Shorts last April (or want to see it again), join us at Gravity Columbus on July 12 for an outdoor screening as part of Franklinton Fridays.
• The Ohio History Connection’s Ohio Village hosts a screening of the acclaimed documentary American Homeboy on July 12.
• Past Wex guest Winston Hightower talked to Matter News about his extraordinary new compilation which documents his music from over the years.
• Pulitzer Prize-winning Connie Schultz joins poet Maggie Smith at the Thurber House on July 10.
• The critics at Maddwolf.com shared their half-point list of the year's best movies and included Wex Film/Video exclusive Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus.

Around the Globe

•  If you missed Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s stunning King Coal at the Wex last year, the powerful film is now streaming on PBS.
• The NEA is getting ready to take applications for its Our Town grant program, which supports initiatives that integrate art, culture, and design into strengthening communities.
• R.I.P. boundary smashing painter and sculptor Audrey Flack.
• Funding has been pulled from the Centre Pompidou’s first North American location.
• Artist, activist, educator, and trans icon Ari Moore discusses her remarkable life and impact on the Buffalo artworld with Hyperallergic.
• Film Comment checks in from the George Eastman Museum’s nitrate film festival.
• Screenwriting titan and Hollywood legend Robert Towne passed away this week.
• The Brooklyn Academy of Music just announced the return of its Next Wave Festival alongside news of a reorganization.