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WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS | THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | 1871 NORTH HIGH STREET | COLUMBUS, OHIO 43210-1393
07+08 2014
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RETROSPECTIVE
Richard Linklater Featuring a screening of Boyhood introduced by the director
onScreen A SUMMER ABROAD J U LY–S E P T E M B E R 2 01 4 Join us on a cinematic world tour with stops in France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Japan, and the Czech Republic. Our tour guides are some of the most revered directors in film history, including the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Jacques Demy, Alain Resnais, Stanley Kubrick, and Nagisa Oshima. See all the titles on our big screen, many in new or recent restorations. Highlights include a 50th anniversary restoration of the exuberant A Hard Day’s Night (July 5) and a stunning 70mm presentation of 2001: A Space Odyssey (August 28–29).
Alphaville
Last Year at Marienbad
(Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
FRI–SAT, JULY 11–12 | 7 pm
new restoration
A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, 1964)
SAT, JULY 5 | 4:30 & 7 pm Meet the Beatles! The first big-screen feature starring John, Paul, George, and Ringo—and one of the most delightfully entertaining movies of all time—is a showcase for Richard Lester’s landmark filmmaking and some of the group’s most iconic songs. Presented in a new 4K highresolution digital restoration taken from the film’s original negative, this special screening is timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the film’s London premiere. (87 mins., 4K DCP)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)
THU, JULY 10 | 7 pm 2nd film | 8:40 pm Lush, romantic, and rapturous, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is an equally joyful and melancholy ode to young love as Catherine Deneuve falls for a mechanic who goes off to war. Most famously, every line of dialogue in the film is sung, but the vivid colors, elegant cinematography, and luscious score are equally memorable. (91 mins., DCP) Jacques Demy followed Umbrellas with another musical, the effervescent The Young Girls of Rochefort, which stars Catherine Deneuve and her real-life sister Françoise Dorléac as twins who dream of the big city. (126 mins., DCP)
Je t’aime je t’aime
(Alain Resnais, 1968)
Il sorpasso
Nosferatu the Vampyre
THU, JULY 24 | 7 pm 2nd film | 8:45 pm
FRI–SAT, AUG 1–2 | 7 pm 2nd film | 8:40 pm
Elegantly epitomizing 1960s European art-house cinema, Last Year at Marienbad remains the late Alain Resnais’s best-known work, boasting both the stunning Delphine Seyrig (decked out in Chanel couture) and an enigmatic screenplay by avantgarde novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet. (93 mins., 35mm) Perhaps the ultimate Italian road movie, the charming Il sorpasso stars the unlikely pair of Vittorio Gassman and JeanLouis Trintignant, who travel by convertible from Rome to Tuscany discovering the pleasures (and consequences) of the good life. (105 mins., DCP)
Ranked alongside Chris Marker’s La jetée and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris, Resnais’s Je t’aime je t’aime follows the first man chosen to test time travel— an experiment that lands the subject in a maze of fractured memoires. (91 mins., 35mm) Screening here in German, in a version virtually unseen in the US, Herzog’s homage to the silent horror classic Nosferatu features Klaus Kinski’s indescribable performance as the title character. With Bruno Ganz and Isabelle Adjani. (107 mins., 35mm)
(Alain Resnais, 1961)
With its striking black-and-white photography, Alphaville turns 1960s Paris into an icily dehumanized city of the future. With an irreverent and idiosyncratic mix of science fiction, pulp characters, and surrealist poetry, the film stars Eddie Constantine as an intergalactic version of the iconic gumshoe Lemmy Caution, who’s on a mission to kill the inventor of the fascist computer Alpha 60. (99 mins., DCP)
(Dino Rissi, 1962)
(Werner Herzog, 1979)
Death by Hanging (Nagisa Oshima, 1968)
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
new restoration
Godzilla: The Japanese Original
(Nagisa Oshima, 1970)
THU, JULY 31 | 7 pm 2nd film | 9:10 pm
(Ishiro Honda, 1954)
THU, JULY 17 | 7 pm A pop culture icon, a metaphor for nuclear weapons, and one of the biggest (and perpetually revived) film franchises in history, Godzilla was unleashed on Japanese audiences, and eventually the world, for the first time in this sci-fi classic. In celebration of its 60th anniversary, we’re presenting the full-length original Japanese film with all of the dark humor and antinuclear messages missing from the American version. (95 mins., DCP)
As this double feature amply demonstrates, Nagisa Oshima electrified postwar cinema by reinventing genres and infusing his films with still-shocking eroticism, violence, and lyricism. Death by Hanging is a brilliantly inventive black comedy about a Korean student who’s hung for rape and murder—but whose body refuses to die. (117 mins., 35mm) In The Man Who Left His Will on Film, a young filmmaker discovers footage of the last will and testament of a fellow student activist, who may or may not have killed himself. (94 mins., 35mm)
new restoration
Queen Margot (Patrice Chéreau, 1994)
FRI–SAT, AUG 8–9 | 7 pm Don’t miss Patrice Chéreau’s international hit, screening uncut—and in a new 4K digital restoration—for the first time in the US. Chéreau’s adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s novel combines an over-the-top operatic sensibility with a gory realism to create a ravishing film full of life and energy. With Isabelle Adjani as Margot and Virna Lisi as the scheming Catherine de Medici, a performance that won her the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival. (159 mins., 4K DCP)
SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS FOR FILM/VIDEO
ROHAUER COLLECTION FOUNDATION M A J O R S U P P O RT F O R W E X D R I V E- I N
A SUMMER ABROAD ’14 THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG Image courtesy of Janus Films
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR WEX DRIVE-IN
A SUMMER’S TALE Image courtesy of Big World Pictures
INSET FROM LEFT
THAT MAN FROM RIO Image courtesy of Cohen Media Group
A HARD DAY’S NIGHT Image courtesy of Janus Films
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Image courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
ALPHAVILLE Image courtesy of Rialto Pictures
MARKETA LAZAROVÁ Image courtesy of Janus Films
QUEEN MARGOT Image courtesy of Cohen Media Group
BELOW 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Image courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
WEX DRIVE-IN REAR WINDOW Image courtesy of Universal Pictures MARS ATTACKS! Image courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
That Man from Rio
Marketa Lazarová
Beauty and the Devil
WED, SEPT 3 | 7 pm
(Philippe de Broca, 1964)
(František Vláčil, 1967)
(René Clair, 1950)
THU, AUG 21 | 7 pm 2nd film | 9:05 pm
A Summer’s Tale (Eric Rohmer, 1996)
FRI, AUG 15 | 7 pm
“The sunniest and funniest of Rohmer’s seasonal tales… wonderfully witty.” —TIME OUT LONDON
Just now receiving its theatrical release in the US, Rohmer’s A Summer’s Tale follows Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud), a recent college graduate who travels to Brittany for a threeweek seaside vacation. He hopes his girlfriend Lena will join him, but as time passes other young women begin to catch his eye—which leads to inevitable complications once Lena arrives. Part of Rohmer’s “Tales of the Four Seasons” series. (113 mins., DCP)
One of the 60s’ best spy spoofs, That Man from Rio sees Jean-Paul Belmondo go from average Joe to hero when his fiancée (Françoise Dorléac) is taken by thugs to Brazil. Handsomely shot on location, full of breathtaking chase scenes, and set to a sensual bossa nova score by Georges Delerue. (112 mins., DCP) One of finest adaptations of Faust on film, Beauty and the Devil has much to offer: Michel Simon’s impish performance as Mephistopheles, philosophical reflections on desire, and ample visual gorgeousness. (95 mins., DCP)
The Wexner Center brings the big screen outside for the Wex Drive-In series of free open-air film screenings on the Wexner Center Plaza. Bring blankets or lawn chairs for seating at these festive, informal events. All Drive-In movies start at dusk (generally around 9 pm), but you are invited to come at 8 pm to choose your spot and enjoy the company of friends and fellow film fans. On tap for the evening: beer from Seventh Son Brewing and wine from our cash bar, plus Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams (with a free scoop for members), pizza from Mikey’s Late Night Slice, and free Pam’s Market Popcorn. Heirloom Café will be also open until 8 pm before each screening, so stop by the lower lobby of the center to grab a snack, meal, or refreshment to take outdoors with you. Major support for Wex Drive-In provided by The Scotts Company. Additional support provided by Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams and Pam’s Market Popcorn, LLC. Community partners: Seventh Son Brewing Co. and Mikey’s Late Night Slice.
70MM PRINT
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
THU–FRI, AUG 28–29 | 7 pm Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey returns to the Wex for the third time in glorious 70mm! This epic fantasia took Arthur C. Clarke’s original sci-fi story—tracing human consciousness from its simian dawn to its first encounters with extraterrestrial intelligence—as the basis for a genuine visual tour de force unlike anything seen in movies before or since. Both slyly comic and truly chilling, it’s also notable for the way its nominal stars (Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood) are utterly upstaged by the selfless, ever-obliging, tragic artificial intelligence HAL. Our previous 70mm screenings sold out in advance, so get your tickets early. (141 mins., 70mm)
Rear Window
(Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Considered by many to be the greatest Czech film ever made, this dazzling adaptation of a purportedly unfilmable novel by Vladislav Vančura recreates the textures and mentalities of medieval life with inventive widescreen cinematography, editing, and sound design. The stirring depiction of a feud between two rival clans is a fierce, epic, and meticulously designed evocation of the clashes between Christianity and paganism, humankind and nature, love and violence. (165 mins., 35mm)
Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton, 1996)
THU, JULY 17 | dusk
THU, AUG 14 | dusk
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Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Rear Window stars Jimmy Stewart as a photographer who’s sidelined by a broken leg and residing in an apartment with a bird’s eye view of all of the other apartments in his complex. His daily entertainment consists of visits from girlfriend Grace Kelly (which isn’t bad!) and observing the lives of his neighbors—when he notices that a neighbor’s wife has gone missing. (112 mins., 35mm)
Inspired by Topps’ offbeat trading card series from the 1960s, the hilarious sci-fi satire Mars Attacks! finds Earth invaded by Martians. Our civilization is lost…until Slim Whitman comes to the rescue. The all-star cast includes Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Natalie Portman, Jim Brown, and the great Sylvia Sidney in her final role. (106 mins., 35mm)
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In the event of rain, the films screen in Mershon Auditorium at 9 pm.
onScreen RETROSPECTIVE
Richard Linklater On the occasion of the release of Boyhood—a film that many are already calling his masterpiece—we revisit the career of revered American independent director Richard Linklater, picking up where a previous Wexner Center retrospective left off in 2000. Linklater has continued the often-audacious formal gestures found in Slacker (1991) and Dazed and Confused (1993) in his subsequent films, which include Tape, Boyhood, his Before trilogy (which we’re screening in full), and what quickly became an all-ages classic, School of Rock (2003). We’re honored to present this second retrospective of work by one our greatest, most versatile directors.
Bad News Bears (2005) SAT, JULY 26 | 4 pm FREE
Richard Linklater
introduces
Boyhood (2014)
MON, JULY 21 | 7 pm RECEPTION | 5:30 pm $10 members, students, senior citizens $12 general public
“Isn’t quite like anything else in the history of cinema.” —ANDREW O’HEHIR (SALON) ON BOYHOOD
Join us for an evening with Richard Linklater as the revered director discusses his remarkable career in film and his latest masterpiece, Boyhood. Linklater will introduce the film and stay for a Q&A session after the screening. Arrive early for a free public reception with the director in our lower lobby. Evoking Michael Apted’s famed documentary series Up and Linklater’s own Before trilogy, Boyhood follows 12 years in the life of the young boy Mason (Ellar Coltrane) and his divorced parents (Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette). Linklater began shooting the film in 2002, gathering his actors each subsequent year to continue his depiction of the characters’ emotional (and physical) growth from the time Mason is in first grade to when he’s leaving for college. (164 mins., DCP) THIS PAGE FROM TOP BEFORE MIDNIGHT Image courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics BOYHOOD Image courtesy of IFC Films A SCANNER DARKLY Image courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures SCHOOL OF ROCK Image courtesy of Paramount Pictures
Linklater’s update of the 1976 comedy stars Billy Bob Thornton as Buttermaker, a washed-up, alcoholic, former minor-league baseball player who coaches a team of hapless Little Leaguers into a squad that challenges for the championship. Also with Greg Kinnear and Marcia Gay Harden. The film is rated PG-13. (113 mins., 35mm)
Before Sunrise (1995) TUE, JULY 29 | 7 pm Linklater’s remarkable Before trilogy drops in three times on the evolving relationship between Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) over the course of nearly 20 years, with each film unfolding within a specified time constraint. In the first film of the series, Before Sunrise, the then-strangers agree to get off their train for one shared day in Vienna, where they spend the night walking through the historic city and talking about gradually more intimate affairs. (101 mins., 35mm)
Before Sunset (2004) Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (Gabe Klinger, 2013)
TUE, AUG 5 | 7 pm In Before Sunset, Jesse and Celine reconnect in Paris, where he is on a tour promoting his new best-seller based on their night in Vienna nine years earlier. The two are now both involved with other people, but their conversations (and chemistry) quickly resume from where they left off. (80 mins., 35mm) Double Play both captures the unique friendship between Linklater and experimental filmmaker James Benning and illustrates the points of convergence between their respective bodies of work. (70 mins., DCP)
Me and Orson Welles (2008)
Bernie (2011) THU, AUG 7 | 7 pm 2nd film | 9 pm
“One of the best movies about the theater I’ve ever seen.” —ROGER EBERT ON ME AND ORSON WELLES
Me and Orson Welles stars Zac Efron as a young actor offered a role in Welles’s 1937 antifascist adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. He’s quickly swept up in the backstage drama sparked by Welles’s ego and infidelities. With Claire Danes, Ben Chaplin, and Christian McKay as Welles. (113 mins., 35mm) Jack Black plays the title role in Bernie, based on a true story of a beloved if peculiar funeral home employee who charms the residents of a small Texas town. With Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey. (99 mins., 35mm)
A Scanner Darkly (2006) Waking Life (2001) SAT, AUG 16 | 7 pm 2nd film | 8:50 pm Based on a novel by Philip K. Dick, the sci-fi animated thriller A Scanner Darkly stars Keanu Reeves as an undercover detective caught up in a high-tech war against epidemic use of the hallucinogenic drug Substance D. With Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, and Winona Ryder. (100 mins., 35mm) The animated Waking Life is a dreamlike philosophical trip following Dazed and Confused lead Wiley Wiggins from scene to scene through a series of heady conversations. (101 mins., 35mm)
Before Midnight (2013) TUE, AUG 12 | 7 pm The final film in the trilogy, Before Midnight finds Celine and Jesse on vacation in Greece, nine years after they reconnected in Paris and now the parents of twin girls and Jesse’s son from a previous marriage. Their holiday calm is disrupted when talk turns to careers, the kids, and their past, casting doubt on the future of their relationship. (109 mins., 35mm)
School of Rock (2003) THU, AUG 14 | 7 pm Jack Black stars as a loser musician who cons his way into a gig as a substitute music teacher at a prestigious prep school in order to make rent. As he introduces his young charges to the finer points of AC/ DC and Led Zeppelin, he realizes his class has the makings of a pretty tight band and begins to prep them for a Battle of the Bands. With Sarah Silverman, Joan Cusack, and Mike White. (109 mins., 35mm)
Tape (2001) Fast Food Nation (2006) TUE, AUG 19 | 7 pm 2nd film | 8:20 pm Tape stars Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke, and Robert Sean Leonard as old high school friends who find themselves in a hotel room hashing out a dark incident from their past. (86 mins., video) Loosely based on Eric Schlosser’s best-seller, Fast Food Nation follows a marketing executive (Greg Kinnear) for a national burger chain who discovers his company’s product contains high levels of contamination. Also with Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, and Kris Kristofferson. (113 mins., 35mm)
Dazed and Confused (1993)
TUE, SEPT 2 | 8:15 pm WEXNER CENTER PLAZA FREE for Ohio State students See the membership page for details.
VISITING FILMMAKER
Steve James
I N T RODUCES
Life Itself (2014) TUE, JULY 15 | 7 pm $10 members, students, senior citizens $12 general public
“A triple threat. First, it’s about a man we all know and love [Roger Ebert]. Second, it’s about cinema and history….and everything we love here at Sundance. Third, it’s the next film by Steve James.” —SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR JOHN COOPER
In 2006, the beloved film critic Roger Ebert lost his ability to eat and speak due to complications from treating the thyroid cancer that would cost him his life in 2013. Instead of allowing himself to be diminished, Ebert continued to attend festivals and to share his passion for film with millions of followers—through every channel available, and right to the end of his life. Taking its name from Ebert’s 2011 memoir, Life Itself chronicles the life
and work of the longtime Chicago Sun-Times writer and At the Movies co-host. Steve James—director of Hoop Dreams, a film Ebert championed—interweaves archival footage and contemporary interviews to create both an often-surprising portrait of the famed critic and a candid history of cinema over the past five decades. Among the archival clips: footage from Ebert’s conversation with Martin Scorsese at the Wex in 1998, when Scorsese was awarded the Wexner Prize. (116 mins., DCP)
THIS PAGE FROM TOP STEVE JAMES Image courtesy of Magnolia Pictures ROGER EBERT Photo © Kevin Horan TAR CREEK Image courtesy of the artist
JEU DE PAUME Image courtesy of the artist and Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago JUST A SIGH Image © Celine Nieszawer
CONTEMPORARY SCREEN Just a Sigh
What Is Cinema?
FRI–SAT, JULY 18–19 | 7 pm
FRI–SAT, AUG 22–23 | 7 pm
In the imaginative and lush Just a Sigh, Emmanuelle Devos (Kings and Queen) plays a stage actress who makes a quick escape to Paris between performances. On the train she’s drawn to a mysterious English stranger (Gabriel Byrne) and begins to face what could be a new life. With a keen eye for details, Bonnell captures a burning love as it evolves between two characters in real time. (104 mins., DCP)
Academy Award–winning filmmaker Chuck Workman’s documentary tackles the question of its title through over 100 clips and interviews with visionaries old and new, including Robert Altman, Robert Bresson, Alfred Hitchcock, Ken Jacobs, Abbas Kiarostami, David Lynch, Kelly Reichardt, and more. With newly commissioned sequences by past Wexner guests Lewis Klahr and Phil Solomon, the film not only asks what cinema has been, but also chronicles the best work being made today and proposes where cinema will, and should, go in the future. (80 mins., video)
(Jérôme Bonnell, 2013)
Young and Beautiful (François Ozon, 2013)
FRI–SAT, JULY 25–26 | 7 pm
JULY Lydia Moyer
AUGUST Joshua Mosley
Following the story of the Tar Creek mining site, which encompasses Picher, Oklahoma, and several other small towns along the Kansas/Oklahoma border, Lydia Moyer’s video examines how one of the primary producers of metal for bullets during the first World War became one of the biggest environmental disasters in the country. Moyer produced the video with support from the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Studio Program. (9 mins., video)
Joshua Mosley’s impressive stopmotion animation, featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, depicts a 1907 tennis match at the Château de Fontainebleau in France. Set in a miniature reproduction of the court as it stood before its 1990 renovation, the video seems to follow its own interests during course of the gameplay—with the camera mirroring the ebb and flow of a casual spectator’s attention. (3 mins., video)
Tar Creek (2013)
(Chuck Workman, 2013)
A portrait of a 17-year-old girl in four songs and four seasons, Young and Beautiful follows Isabelle, a teenager exploring her emerging sexuality by setting up a secret life as a call girl for older gentlemen. Ozon (8 Women, Swimming Pool) captures another memorable female performance as magnetic newcomer Marine Vacth’s Isabelle remains a provocative enigma, unmoved by the men and the money. (95 mins., DCP)
Wex at Gateway
Jeu de paume (2014)
Wexner Center members receive free admission to select screenings at the Gateway Film Center, located in the South Campus Gateway. The films are selected (and often introduced) by Wex curators. Check wexarts.org and gatewayfilmcenter.com for a schedule and details
FILM/VIDEO TICKET INFO
$6 members, students, senior citizens $8 general public $3 children under 12 Film/Video tickets are on sale at tickets. wexarts.org and the Patron Services Desk on the entrance level of the building. Inperson ticket sales continue until a halfhour after show times or until the start of the second film of double features. SCREENINGS
All events are in the Film/Video Theater, unless otherwise indicated. Non– English language films have English subtitles, unless otherwise indicated. All programs are subject to change.
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A New View of Museums for a First-Generation College Student
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Neutral Milk Hotel with and
Circulatory System
Connections
A special concert to benefit Wexner Center for the Arts programs and CD102.5 for the Kids SUN, JULY 20 | 6 PM LC OUTDOOR PAVILION $30.50 in advance $33 day of show Tickets are available via Ticketmaster.com only Price includes $1 per ticket to benefit Children of the Blue Sky eternalblueskyofmongolia.org Limit 4 tickets NO PHOTOGRAPHY OR VIDEO RECORDING ALLOWED
“Something bigger and weirder and more beautiful than most people can ever imagine.” —SPIN.COM ON NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL LIVE
Don’t delay! A few tickets remain for this year’s Next@Wex Fest, featuring Neutral Milk Hotel in the core lineup that played on the cult classic In the Aeroplane Over the Sea: Jeff Mangum, Scott Spillane, Julian Koster, and Jeremy Barnes. Joining them on this midsummer’s night dream bill are Circulatory System, spearheaded by musician and painter Will Cullen Hart, and Columbus’s own indie-scene “supergroup” Connections (with members from 84 Nash, Times New Viking, and El Jesus de Magico). This great outdoor event is presented with our partners at PromoWest Productions and CD102.5 at the LC Outdoor Pavilion downtown. Proceeds benefit Wexner Center for the Arts educational programs for children and youth and CD102.5 for the Kids, the children’s charity arm of that local independent radio station.
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Ohio State student Meagan Jones lights up when talking about magnetic fluorescent nanoparticles and polymer spheres. You can see it in her eyes, and you can see it if you watch her TEDx talk online as she describes her work in Ohio State’s Koffolt Labs while still in high school. And yet—she’s also a work-study student in the Wexner Center’s education department, is learning to give gallery tours, and has a double major in anthropology and medieval history, with a French minor. It seems her curiosity and interests span the arts, the sciences, and the humanities alike. A renaissance woman? Perhaps. A first-generation college student from the west side of Columbus and the Hilltop, Jones didn’t think museums were for her at one time. “Before I worked here—and before I took Art & Environment [a high-school course at the Wex]— I thought of museums as inaccessible to people from my background, something we couldn’t access readily....Finding out that that was pretty wrong was a really amazing thing for me.” In recent years, she’s taken a student docent training course, assisted at the Wexner Center’s Zoom Family Film Festival, and interned in Franklin Park Conservatory’s exhibitions department—and her view of museums has changed radically in the process. Even the Wexner Center’s approach to guiding tours was revelatory— “asking questions and not just giving people information.” She also remembers learning from tours of Elliott Hundley: The Bacchae (2011), an exhibition that mined Greek mythology, a subject she knows something about. “I feel like, as a docent, you learn so much from your tour group. I remember every time I went in there, I would learn something new.” Head to wexarts.org/blog to read more about Meagan’s journey with the Wex.
COGO BIKE SHARE MEAGAN JONES Photo: Brandon Ballog
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The Tempest By William Shakespeare Adapted and directed by Kelly Hunter
WED–THU, JULY 16–17 | 2 & 7 pm PERFORMANCE SPACE
SAT–SUN, JULY 19–20 | 2 pm WOSU@COSI 333 WEST BROAD STREET $6 all audiences* Recommended for children on the autistic spectrum ages 8–16 and their families
Fall Student Party TUE, SEPT 2 | 7–10 pm WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS FREE for Ohio State students Ohio State students, don’t miss out on the Wexner Center’s annual party just for you. This year’s festivities include a free outdoor screening of Richard Linklater’s classic Dazed and Confused on the Wexner Center Plaza (starting at 8:15 pm), free pizza and giveaways, plus information about benefits you can enjoy at the Wex year-round, like free admission to our exhibitions and discounted tickets to performances and films. Around this summer? See the onScreen pages for more about our Richard Linklater retrospective in July and August. Note: In the event of rain, the film will screen in Mershon Auditorium.
BLUES FOR SMOKE STUDENT PARTY Photo: AJ Zanyk DAZED AND CONFUSED Image courtesy of Universal Studios
Shakespeare’s beautiful play of love and magic is specially adapted for an audience of children with autism. In this safe, intimate, and interactive experience, young people are invited to join six actors in playing sensory games to help bring the story and its clowns, wizards, spirits, and sprites to life. Together, we’ll explore Shakespeare’s final play, using his rhythmic, expressive language to create a fun, engaging, and communicative experience. Royal Shakespeare Company actress Kelly Hunter adapts and directs The Tempest using games that she has created over the last 20 years to help combat the challenges of autism. Each performance is limited to a maximum of 15 children; parents, teachers, siblings, and caregivers are welcome to share the experience.* There will be time before the performance to meet the actors and settle comfortably in the space and time at the end to say goodbye. The play is a relaxed experience; participating children are free to take time out of the auditorium at any point. Visit wexarts.org/tempest for details and FAQs about the experience. *Please note: Tickets for this production may only be purchased by groups that include a child with autism. Two companion tickets may be purchased with each ticket purchase for an autistic child. The July 20 performance and its participants will be videotaped. Cosponsored with Ohio State’s Department of Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Ohio State’s Nisonger Center.
Leave an Artful Legacy With thoughtful gift planning, you can make a greater impact at the Wex than you ever imagined. Create an enduring legacy through the Wexner Center for the Arts to ensure future generations have access to compelling exhibitions; vibrant dance, theater, and music performances; classic and contemporary films; and innovative educational programs that can’t be found anywhere else. Call or e-mail us to learn more. Phone: (614) 292-3096 E-mail: crosenthal@wexarts.org
SUPPORT FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY PROGRAMS
Wexner Center Director of Education Shelly Casto (left) leads a tour of Comic Future Photo: Brandon Ballog
Get Involved at the Wex Looking for a way to learn more about the contemporary arts while connecting to others in the community who share your interests? Think about becoming a part of Wexner Center’s docent or usher programs. Docents are active members of the Wexner Center’s education department who lead interactive tours of gallery exhibitions and the center’s unique architectural spaces. Docents work with university classes, K–12 school groups, teens, and art lovers from near and far. The next training program for docents begins in August, and university students can earn credit for taking the docent training course. Applications to join the docent program are due July 25. Ushers assist our patrons at performances, films, lectures, and special events—and get to see it all for free. No experience is necessary, just a love of the contemporary arts; training will be provided in the second week of September. The deadline for online applications to be considered for our fall orientation is August 29. Find out more about either program at wexarts.org/get-involved/volunteer.
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Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes Eye of the Cartoonist: Daniel Clowes’s Selections from Comics History Comic Future
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Lydia Moyer Tar Creek AUGUST
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The Tempest
By William Shakespeare Adapted and directed by Kelly Hunter
Store Go back to school in style with a little help from the Wexner Center Store. From an amazing range of books on the arts, notebooks and journals tailored to visual thinkers, and stylish backpacks, bags, and totes, we carry a range of items you simply won’t find anywhere else. Shop in store or online at store.wexarts.org. Don’t forget: members save on all store purchases, including Herman Miller furniture.
Heirloom Café After a short break (we’re closed June 28–July 13), Heirloom is open regular hours all summer long: Mon–Wed, 8 am–4 pm, Thu–Fri, 8 am–8 pm. From refreshing salads filled with local produce to delicious baked treats to satisfy your sweet tooth, the café is a great place to grab a bite before a film or after viewing the galleries. Heirloom will be open until 8 pm before this summer’s Drive-In Films, so stop by to grab a snack to take outdoors with you.
WOSU@COSI | 2 pm 333 West Broad Street PA NEXT@WEX FEST
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Before Sunrise
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Tape Fast Food Nation
Can’t get enough of comics? Stop by next door at the newly expanded Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum to see Exploring Calvin and Hobbes, which revisits Bill Watterson’s beloved comic strip, and The Irresistible Force Meets the Immovable Object: A Richard Thompson Retrospective. Both exhibitions are on view through August 3, 2014.
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Dazed and Confused
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A HARD DAY’S NIGHT Image courtesy of Janus Films *Recommended for children on the autistic spectrum ages 8–16 and their families
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg The Young Girls of Rochefort
Alphaville
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A Hard Day’s Night Film/Video Theater | 4:30 pm & 7 pm New restoration
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Alphaville
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The Tempest
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The Tempest
Just a Sigh
By William Shakespeare Adapted and directed by Kelly Hunter
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The Tempest
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Godzilla: The Japanese Original
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Just a Sigh
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Rear Window
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Last Year at Marienbad Il sorpasso
Young and Beautiful Film/Video Theater | 7 pm
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Bad News Bears
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Death by Hanging The Man Who Left His Will on Film Film/Video Theater 7 pm | 2nd film 9:10 pm
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Me and Orson Welles Bernie Film/Video Theater 7 pm | 2nd film 9 pm
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School of Rock
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Je t’aime je t’aime Nosferatu the Vampyre
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Queen Margot
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A Summer’s Tale
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A Scanner Darkly Waking Life
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Mars Attacks!
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That Man from Rio Beauty and the Devil
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What Is Cinema?
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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Marketa Lazarová
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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What Is Cinema?
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THROUGH AUGUST 3, 2014
Modern Cartoonist
THE ART OF DANIEL CLOWES Daniel Clowes (b. 1961) is one of the most beloved and renowned comic book artists of our time, with nearly 50 publications to his credit, including the acclaimed graphic novels Ghost World (1997), David Boring (1999), and Wilson (2010). The first museum survey of his work, this exhibition brings together over 90 pieces of original art and artifacts representing the full range of Clowes’s career—including original black ink drawings and beautifully realized gouache paintings—all displayed in an inspired installation environment. Organized for the Oakland Museum of California by independent curator Susan Miller and René de Guzman, Senior Curator of Art, Oakland Museum of California. This presentation organized for the Wexner Center for the Arts by David Filipi, the center's Director of Film/Video.
DANIEL CLOWES Eightball no.23 (The Death-Ray) mock-up, 2004 12 x 9 x 1/2 inches Collection of Daniel Clowes Image courtesy of the artist and Oakland Museum of California
Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes, installation views, Wexner Center for the Arts. Photos: Katie Spengler (top and left inset) and Mark Steele.
Walk-in Tours THU, JULY 10 | 5 pm SAT, JULY 19 | 1 pm THU, JULY 24 | 5 pm SUN, AUG 3 | 1 pm MEET AT THE GALLERY ENTRANCE FREE with gallery admission Get the most out of your visit to the galleries with a Walk-in Tour. Tours are free with gallery admission, which is free on Thursday evenings. No registration is required.
EXHIBITIONS TICKET INFO
FREE members, college students (with valid ID), under 18 $8 general public $6 senior citizens (65 and older) Ohio State faculty and staff (with BUCK ID)
Eye of the Cartoonist
DANIEL CLOWES’S SELECTIONS F R O M C O M I C S H I S T O RY To complement Modern Cartoonist, we invited Daniel Clowes to collaborate with curators at Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum to present an exhibition of work by past greats whom he admires or considers influences. Clowes, like many cartoonists, is a great student of his field’s history. The diverse range of work on view spans the 20th century and includes gloriously colorful newspaper tearsheets from the early days of the medium, original illustrations and comic strip art, and a collection of vintage underground and offbeat comics that have deeply informed Clowes’s approach. Organized by Wexner Center for the Arts. Special thanks to Jenny Robb, Caitlin McGurk, and the staff at Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum for their generous assistance with this exhibition.
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Every Thursday from 4 to 8 pm and on the first Sunday of each month
On View at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Can’t get enough of comics? These exhibitions are on view next door to the Wex through August 3: Exploring Calvin and Hobbes and The Irresistible Force Meets the Immovable Object: A Richard Thompson Retrospective. Enhance your visit with a tour led by Wexner Center docents; contact (614) 292-6493 or edweb@wexarts.org for details.
THIS PAGE FROM TOP Artist Daniel Clowes tours Eye of the Cartoonist. Photo: Katie Spengler MILTON CANIFF Terry and the Pirates (detail), October 19, 1941 Ink on illustration board 28 1/4 x 21 3/16 inches Milton Caniff Collection, Ohio State's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum ERNIE BUSHMILLER Nancy (detail), April 14, 1975 Ink on paper 7 1/16 x 20 7/8 inches Robert Roy Metz Collection Ohio State's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum ARTURO HERRERA Untitled, 2005 Flat enamel paint Dimensions variable Courtesy of the artist Installation view, Wexner Center for the Arts Photo: Mark Steele MIKE KELLEY City 7, 13, and 5, 2007–11 Animation 2, 6, and 19, 2007 Tinted urethane on illuminated bases Animations, color and sound Courtesy of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts Installation view, Wexner Center for the Arts Photo: Mark Steele
Comic Future The 15 artists in Comic Future blur the line between “high” and “low” in order to turn a critical (and often satirical) eye toward contemporary culture and politics. The exhibition showcases works from the 1960s through 2013, including works on paper by Sigmar Polke, a sitespecific work by Arturo Herrera, sculptures by Aaron Curry and Liz Craft, paintings by Roberto Matta, Carroll Dunham, and Peter Saul, and works by the late Mike Kelley, among others. Drawing from a range of influences and appropriating subjects from popular culture, they present conceptually adventurous and visually bold interpretations of our frequently absurd world. Organized by Ballroom Marfa, Texas, and curated by its Executive Director Fairfax Dorn. Support for Comic Future at the Wexner Center provided by Mike and Paige Crane. Presented at Ballroom Marfa with the support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston; the Meyer Levy Charitable Foundation; Texas Commission on the Arts; Foundation for Contemporary Arts; and generous contributions by Ballroom Marfa members.
Fall Highlights
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Transfigurations: Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection
PABLO PICASSO, Nu au fauteuil noir, 1932. Oil on canvas, 63 1/2 x 51 in. ©2014 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI, Le chien, 1951. Bronze, 17 3/4 x 38 5/8 x 5 7/8 in. Edition 8 of 8. ©2014 Alberto Giacometti Estate/Licensed by VAGA and ARS, New York, NY.
Guest curated by Robert Storr, professor and dean of the Yale University School of Art and former senior curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the exhibition and an accompanying catalogue will bring fresh perspective to these artists and examine the figurative impulses that connect them. “A collection of this caliber and magnitude requires rare discipline, passion, and discernment,” Storr explains. “Those who take the opportunity to view and absorb it will count themselves incredibly lucky to have looked over the shoulder of such avid collectors.” Wexner Center Director Sherri Geldin notes, “presenting the exquisitely focused Wexner family collection allows us to offer audiences—especially university students and scholars—an unparalleled look at some of the pioneering artists whose work in the first half of the 20th century transformed the cultural landscape of their time, and continues to resonate in our own. We are so grateful to Leslie and Abigail Wexner for providing this singular opportunity to illuminate the creative continuum between early 20th-century masters and contemporary artistic practice.”
About the Wexner Family Collection “This is the ideal moment to celebrate the profound and continuing impact of the Wexner Center, a multidisciplinary laboratory for new ideas, creativity, and freedom of expression....Abigail and I are happy to share the collection that we have had the privilege and pleasure to live with every day.” —LESLIE H. WEXNER JEAN DUBUFFET, La marée l’Hourloupe, 1963. Oil on canvas, 86 1/2 x 118 in. © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
This fall, in celebration of our 25th anniversary, the Wexner Center for the Arts will mount an unprecedented exhibition of the personal collection of Leslie and Abigail Wexner. Transfigurations: Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection features an exquisite and unusually in-depth selection of paintings, sculptures, collages, and drawings by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, and Jean Dubuffet. With its concentrated focus on these three 20th-century virtuosos, along with additional works by Edgar Degas, Willem de Kooning, and Susan Rothenberg, the Wexner Family Collection is truly incomparable to any other private collection formed over the last 50 years. This will be the first-ever public exhibition of this remarkable collection—and the Wexner Center is the one and only venue where you can intimately experience these timeless treasures. If you’ve ever thought about becoming a Wexner Center member, now is the perfect time to join. As a member, you’ll receive free reserved admission to the exhibition and be invited to an opening celebration just for members on September 20. For information on exclusive VIP events for Donor Circles and corporate members, please contact Katy Reis at kreis@wexarts.org or (614) 292-0444. Members also enjoy priority access and ticket savings to the fantastic performances and films presented as part of our 25th Anniversary Season. Turn the page for program highlights and more about this fall’s member ticket presale. And don’t forget, members save with year-round discounts in the Wexner Center Store and Heirloom Café.
TICKET INFO Starting August 18, members can reserve their free tickets to the exhibition before they go on sale to the public on August 25. FREE members, college students (with valid ID), under 18 $8 general public $6 senior citizens (65 and older), Ohio State faculty and staff (with BUCK ID) All Transfigurations tickets are timed and must be purchased or reserved in advance.
LESLIE H. AND ABIGAIL WEXNER
Chair of the Wexner Center Foundation Board of Trustees and Chairman and Founder of L Brands, Leslie H. Wexner began collecting art seriously in the mid-1970s, initially focusing on modern artists of the New York School, particularly Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. With the purchase in 1986 of a significant work by Picasso, Wexner began a partnership with the art dealer Richard Gray, and since then, the Wexners began to look more intently at earlier modern masters, primarily collecting the exemplary work of Picasso, Giacometti, and Dubuffet. The collection reflects a coherence of vision and passion for quality of the highest order.
Planning your visit Reserve your spot in line and greatly reduce your wait. Due to anticipated demand and the unique nature of the exhibition, your admission ticket will be timed and traffic through the galleries limited to ensure the best experience of the exhibition. Member admission is always free, but tickets must be reserved in advance to guarantee your desired time slot. Visiting from out of town? Visit us online for special travel packages, helpful info on local amenities, and more to make the most of your stay: wexarts.org/overnight
Fall Highlights
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kronos quartet with laurie anderson
MEMBER PRESALE JULY 7–20 PUBLIC TICKET SALES BEGIN JULY 21
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Actors Touring Company featuring The Harmony Project SEPTEMBER 30–OCTOBER 5 A hit at the Edinburgh Festival, this touching and thought-provoking play by David Greig (The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart) addresses the aftermath of a tragic mass shooting event and features Columbus’s community choir The Harmony Project alongside an outstanding cast from the UK.
Landfall By Laurie Anderson for the Kronos Quartet OCTOBER 11 Immerse yourself in this dazzling work of poetic storytelling, multimedia spectacle, and compelling music, the first collaboration between these vanguard creative forces who originally met backstage at the Wexner Center’s dedication in 1989.
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Aakash Odedra Rising OCTOBER 23–26 Be there for the US premiere of this acclaimed solo program by British dance sensation Aakash Odedra that features choreography by Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (who also had their US debuts at the Wexner Center).
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Miranda July New Society NOVEMBER 20 Performance artist, writer, and past Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient Miranda July orchestrates a delightful group exercise to redesign our collective futures afresh with wry wit and insight.
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onScreen Catherine Breillat introduces Abuse of Weakness
An Evening with Terry Zwigoff
SEPTEMBER 26
OCTOBER 16
One of France’s most significant and controversial contemporary filmmakers (Fat Girl, Romance) joins us to present her latest film, the autobiographical Abuse of Weakness, starring the great Isabelle Huppert.
Director Terry Zwigoff joins us to take a look at his distinctive career making feature films about alienated misfits in this discussion punctuated by clips from Ghost World, Bad Santa, Art World Confidential, and his breakthrough documentary, Crumb.
The General With live music by Alloy Orchestra
Jodie Mack introduces Let Your Light Shine
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OCTOBER 22
The renowned musical ensemble that Roger Ebert called “the best in the world at accompanying silent film” makes their first Columbus appearance in conjunction with a restoration of Buster Keaton’s beloved 1926 comedy The General.
One of the most exciting filmmakers to emerge in recent years, Jodie Mack introduces her thrilling experimental animations. Tonight’s program includes the much-discussed Dusty Stacks of Mom—an animation set to a rewritten version of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon that Mack sings to live.
kerry james marshall
inSight Curator’s Talk Lucy Lippard OCTOBER 23 Hear from art critic, curator, and activist Lucy Lippard, one of the most influential voices in contemporary art for over 50 years. This free talk is part of the Curatorial Studies Series organized by Ohio State’s Department of History of Art and Department of Art.
terry zwigoff
Artist’s Talk Kerry James Marshall NOVEMBER 7
abuse of weakness LAURIE ANDERSON AND THE KRONOS QUARTET Photo: Mark Allan MIRANDA JULY Photo: Todd Cole
let your light shine
AAKASH ODEDRA Photo: Chris Nash
ABUSE OF WEAKNESS Image courtesy of Strand Releasing
THE EVENTS Image: David Levine
LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE Image courtesy of Jodie Mack
TERRY ZWIGOFF Image courtesy of the artist
KERRY JAMES MARSHALL Image courtesy of the artist
KERRY JAMES MARSHALL Blue Water Silver Moon (Mermaid), 1991 Acrylic and collage on linen 63 x 55 inches Collection of JoAnn Busuttil, Los Angeles Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Dynamic Chicago-based artist, MacArthur Fellow, and past Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient Kerry James Marshall discusses his career and the importance of art education. This free evening lecture is also the keynote address for the 2014 Ohio Art Education Association conference.
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Leslie H. Wexner Chair Joseph A. Alutto Vice Chair James Lyski President Trustees Nicholas K. Akins David M. Aronowitz Jeni Britton Bauer Shelley Bird Michael J. Canter Adam R. Flatto Sherri Geldin Ann Gilbert Getty Michael P. Glimcher Elizabeth P. Kessler C. Robert Kidder Nancy Kramer James E. Kunk Bill Lambert Ronald A. Pizzuti Janet B. Reid Joyce Shenk Alex Shumate A. Alfred Taubman Abigail S. Wexner John F. Wolfe Ex Officio Mark Shanda Bruce A. Soll Joseph E. Steinmetz Mark E. Vannatta
Senior Programming Staff Sherri Geldin Director Jack Jackson Deputy Director Shelly Casto Director of Education Jill Davis Director of Exhibitions Management David Filipi Director of Film/Video Charles R. Helm Director of Performing Arts Bill Horrigan Curator at Large Jennifer Lange Curator of Film/Video Studio Program David Norr Senior Curator of Exhibitions Calendar of Events Staff Ryan Shafer Editor Brandon Ballog Graphic Designer