The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University has received two awards from the National Endowment for the Arts in its second round of funding for fiscal year 2017. The Wex is the only organization in Ohio to receive grants in two separate categories, totaling $60...
Recent Press Releases
Wexner Center summer film series spotlights rarely screened gems by Hollywood icons
Wed, May 17, 2017
On Thursday, July 6, the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University debuts its summer film series for 2017, The New Hollywood: Deep Cuts 1967–78. The 16-film program, which runs through August 24, highlights under-seen and underappreciated gems from “The...
Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life arrives September 16
Mon, Apr 3, 2017
“Some of her images have become just about as iconic as the Hollywood ones she once riffed on, forming a new view of femininity in a postmodern age.” —New York Times
Wexner Center names new director of performing arts
Thu, Mar 30, 2017
Lane Czaplinski will assume the position of director of performing arts at the Wexner Center for the Arts, effective June 1. Czaplinski will succeed Charles Helm, the Wex’s current performing arts director, who will retire June 30 after 26 extraordinary years with the center.
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Gray Matters makes its world premiere May 20
Thu, Feb 23, 2017
Columbus, Ohio—May 20–July 30, 2017, the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University will debut Gray Matters, a multifaceted survey of 37 contemporary women artists who have explored the practice of creating en grisaille...
The Wexner Center celebrates film preservation with Cinema Revival
Mon, Jan 9, 2017
(Don't Look Back image, courtesy...
Fallen Fruit Descends on Columbus
Wed, Dec 7, 2016
Columbus, OH–In partnership with the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Los Angeles-based art collaborative project Fallen Fruit, led by artists David Allen Burns and Austin Young, has launched a multi-part project steeped in the...
The 13th Annual Zoom: Family Film Festival kicks off November 25
Wed, Nov 2, 2016
Columbus, Ohio—From classic...
Wexner Center receives major grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services
Mon, Oct 17, 2016
Columbus, Ohio—The Film/Video Studio Program at the Wexner Center for the Arts has received a two-year, $150,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The award—part of IMLS’s Museums for America program—will be used for the development of an accessible...
Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight opens February 4, 2017
Wed, Oct 12, 2016
"…the show presents her as an artist of formidable discipline, consistency and clarity of purpose, and a key player in any history of postwar art.”—New York Times
Columbus, Ohio—February 4–April 16, 2017, the Wexner Center for the...
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