July/August 2015 Calendar

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WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS | THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | 1871 NORTH HIGH STREET | COLUMBUS, OHIO 43210-1393

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onScreen The Big Picture A Summer of 3D, Technicolor, CinemaScope, and 70mm

We’ve always prided ourselves on presenting film and video in the best available formats. This summer we thought it would be fun to present films that truly require the big screen, a theatrical setting, and the flexibility of our state-of-the-art projection system to get the full experience. Join us for this bigger-than-life series that, among other things, pays tribute to the 100th anniversary of Technicolor with three films shot in the glorious three-strip color process; showcases several recent 70mm, 4K, and 3D presentations; and includes our “expanded cinema” presentation of The Tingler.

WIDESCREEN TECHNIRAMA!

IN 3D!

(Cy Endfield, 1964)

(George Sidney, 1953)

Zulu

Kiss Me Kate

THU, JULY 9 | 7 pm

THU, JULY 23 | 7 pm

Filmed in widescreen Technirama, the gripping epic Zulu depicts the 1879 Battle of Rorke’s Drift, fought between a station of colonial British soldiers and an army of Zulu warriors. Stephen Dade’s brilliant cinematography brings the viewer right into the middle of the incredibly tense battle scenes. Zulu has been cited as an influence by Peter Jackson (on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers) and by Ridley Scott (on Gladiator). Starring Michael Caine, Stanley Baker, and Jack Hawkins.

(139 mins., DCP)

Perhaps the best use of 3D in the 1950s, Kiss Me Kate is the MGM adaption of the celebrated Broadway musical inspired by The Taming of the Shrew. Filled with the music of Cole Porter, this classic film stars Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson as a divorced couple now starring opposite each other as Petruchio and Katherine in a version of Shakespeare’s play. (109 mins., 3D DCP)

4K RESTORATION!

In Cold Blood

(Richard Brooks, 1967)

70MM PRINT!

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Stanley Kramer, 1963)

FRI–SAT, JULY 10–11 | 7 pm The word “madcap” seems invented for the epic comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, which follows a group of strangers as they match wits (and lack thereof) in pursuit of $350,000. The cast is a who’s who of American comedy from the era, including Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Jimmy Durante, and many more, plus Spencer Tracy as the police captain trying to find the missing loot. (162 mins., 70mm)

35MM TECHNICOLOR!

War of the Worlds (Byron Haskin, 1953)

THU, JULY 16 | 7 pm Filmed in stunning Technicolor, Haskin’s War of the Worlds is the first film adaptation of H. G. Wells’s archetypal story of an invasion of Earth by creatures from Mars.

Produced by George Pal, it’s regarded as one of the greatest science-fiction films in history.

(85 mins., 35mm)

THU, JULY 30 | 7 pm Conrad Hall’s cinematography for this adaptation of Truman Capote’s true crime novel In Cold Blood is widely considered the pinnacle of black-and-white CinemaScope.

Robert Blake and Scott Wilson star as the pair caught, tried, and executed for the gruesome murders of the Clutter family in Kansas in 1959. (135 mins., 4K DCP)

“EXPANDED CINEMA” PRESENTATION!

The Tingler (William Castle, 1959)

THU, AUG 6 | 7 pm Introduced by Film Forum’s Bruce Goldstein We’ve screened most of the films by gimmick-meister William Castle over the years, but we’ve been saving one until we could do it justice.

Bruce Goldstein, repertory program director of New York’s Film Forum, returns to the Wex with his internationally celebrated presentation of The Tingler—delivered with a kick that would have made Mr. Castle proud.

Vincent Price stars as … well, that’s all we’re going to tell you. Join us if you dare! (82 mins., DCP)

FROM TOP THE TALES OF HOFFMANN Image courtesy of Rialto Pictures

IN COLD BLOOD Image courtesy of Sony Pictures

THE TALES OF HOFFMANN Image courtesy of Rialto Pictures

ZULU Image courtesy of Rialto Pictures

THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI Image courtesy of Sony Pictures

TRON Image courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures

4K RESTORATION!

4K RESTORATION!

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Tales of Hoffmann

TUE, AUG 11 | 7 pm

THU, AUG 20 | 7 pm

Few films can match the level of spectacle achieved in David Lean’s Technicolor and CinemaScope epic The Bridge on the River Kwai.

An obsessive British officer (Alec Guinness) takes his work a bit too seriously as he leads his captured men in the construction of a railroad bridge for a Japanese POW camp commander (Sessue Hayakawa) during WWII. Both are unaware that an escaped prisoner (William Holden) is leading a team of commandoes back into the jungle to destroy the bridge. Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, and Actor for Guinness. (161 mins., 4K DCP)

Adapted from the opera by Jacques Offenbach, the sumptuous The Tales of Hoffmann stars Moira Shearer as the ballerina who drives E. T. A. Hoffmann (Robert Rounseville) to drink and to recount three tales of lost love for his bar mates. Presented in a stunning 4K restoration from the original three-strip Technicolor negative that was supervised by Thelma Schoonmaker, longtime editor for Martin Scorsese and Michael Powell’s widow. (133 mins., 4K DCP)

(David Lean, 1957)

RESTORED FROM 35MM!

3D Rarities

THU, AUG 13 | 7 pm Organized by the 3-D Archive’s Bob Furmanek, 3D Rarities offers a diverse selection of shorts produced between 1922 and 1953. The program includes trailers for It Came from Outer Space and The Maze (both 1953); the Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon Boo Moon (1953); the first 3D documentary Doom Town (1953), about the devastation of an atomic blast; a 3D demonstration film from the early 1920s; and more! All of the films in the program are restored and remastered from original 35mm elements. Visit wexarts.org for a full program lineup. (94 mins., 3D DCP)

(Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1951)

70MM PRINT!

Tron

(Steven Lisberger, 1982)

FRI–SAT, AUG 28–29 | 7 pm A landmark in computer animation, Disney’s Tron follows programmer Jeff Bridges after he is transported into a digital world and has to fight his way out as a videogame gladiator against a series of artificial intelligence–controlled threats.

The groundbreaking film was shot almost entirely in 65mm Super Panavision. Don’t miss what might be your only chance to see it in 70mm! (95 mins., 70mm)

CLASSICS Rebels of the Neon God

A Tale of Winter (Eric Rohmer, 1992)

FRI–SAT, JULY 24–25 | 7 pm

(Tsai Ming-liang, 1992)

FRI–SAT, JULY 17–18 | 7 pm

“A near-masterpiece, and one of the most assured and accomplished debuts of the 1990s.”

—CHICAGO READER

With films such as What Time Is It There? and Goodbye, Dragon Inn, Tsai Ming-liang is one of the most distinctive and significant filmmakers in world cinema. Yet his auspicious first film was never released in the US—until now. In this stark-but-sympathetic portrait of teenage alienation in Taipei, Lee Kang-sheng (the lead in nearly all of Tsai’s films) plays a sullen youth who befriends the hoodlums who’ve vandalized his father’s cab.

Although Tsai’s debut recalls the French New Wave, the early films of Wong Kar-wai, and, of course, Rebel Without a Cause, it is most significant for announcing the arrival of one of the great filmmakers of our time.

(106 mins., DCP)

“Rohmer is the romantic philosopher of the French New Wave, the director whose characters make love with words as well as flesh.”—ROGER EBERT, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

This new HD restoration of Eric Rohmer’s miraculous A Tale of Winter shows why he is unsurpassed at creating intelligent romantic comedies and intelligent female characters. A young couple meet and fall in love while on holiday, but when the woman accidentally gives her beau the wrong address, he disappears from her life. Five years later, she has a daughter and two lovers but still pines for her longlost paramour. Perhaps the most underrated of Rohmer’s masterful Tales of the Four Seasons cycle, A Tale of Winter is an unexpected story of rebirth and renewal. (114 mins., DCP)

Grey Gardens

(Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer, 1975)

FRI–SAT, JULY 31–AUG 1 | 7 pm A new digital restoration of one of the most iconic, fascinating, and enduring documentaries of all time provides a new opportunity to meet Big and Little Edie: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and the reclusive aunt and cousin of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. The two manage to survive together amid the decay and disorder of their mansion in the Hamptons. This impossibly intimate portrait quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen. This 40th anniversary rerelease is a timely tribute to one of the towering figures of documentary filmmaking, Albert Maysles, who died in March 2015. (100 mins., DCP)

A Poem Is a Naked Person (Les Blank, 1974/2015)

FRI–SAT, AUG 7–8 | 7 pm Directed by the late Les Blank, one of America’s most original and exciting documentary filmmakers, the never-released A Poem Is a Naked Person has only existed as a rumor among film and music fans—including some who have called it the finest rock ’n’ roll movie ever made. An ineffable mix of unbridled joy and vérité realism, the film follows singer-songwriter Leon Russell—a hit-writing collaborator of Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Joe Cocker, George Harrison, and the Rolling Stones—and the world of friends and fellow artists who orbit his recording studio in Oklahoma. Interspersed with live concert scenes, the film is a time capsule that is simply not to be missed. (90 mins., DCP)

35MM PRINTS! The Wexner Center brings the big screen outside for our annual series of free, festive, open-air film screenings on the Wexner Center Plaza at 15th Avenue and High Street. All Wex Drive-In movies start at dusk (generally around 9 pm), but you’re invited to come at 8 pm to choose your spot. Pack up a few blankets or lawn chairs, and get ready to enjoy beer from Seventh Son Brewing and wine from our cash bar, pizza from Mikey’s Late Night Slice, plus free Pam’s Market Popcorn. Pick up a new Film Lives Here mug and save a buck on drinks at this summer’s screenings: see the member news page for details.

In the event of rain, the film screens in Mershon Auditorium at 9 pm. Heirloom Café is open until 8 pm if you want to grab a bite before heading outside.

SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS FOR FILM/VIDEO

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SUPPORT FOR FREE AND LOW-COST PROGRAMS

Touch of Evil

Cry-Baby

THU, JULY 16 | dusk

THU, AUG 13 | dusk

Consistently ranked among the best films of all time, Orson Welles’s final Hollywood hurrah is a sleazy and entertaining filmnoir portrait of corruption and obsession.

Presented here in a meticulously reconstructed “director’s cut,” the film features Welles as a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot. The film boasts one of the most famous opening shots in cinema history, a magnificent Henry Mancini score, and an unforgettable all-star cast that includes Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich, and Zsa Zsa Gabor.

(112 mins., 35mm)

Although he was already a teen icon from TV’s 21 Jump Street, Johnny Depp had his first starring film role as the titular bad-boy hero of Cry-Baby, John Waters’s raucously satirical ode to the teen rock ’n’ roll films of the 1950s. This follow-up to his hit Hairspray gives the classic juvenile delinquent archetypes—the bad boy with a heart of gold and the good girl with a wild streak—an affectionate spoofing that’s set, of course, in Waters’s beloved and peculiar Baltimore. (85 mins., 35mm)

(Orson Welles, 1958)

(John Waters, 1990)

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GREY GARDENS Image courtesy of Janus Films

A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON Image courtesy of Janus Films

REBELS OF THE NEON GOD Image courtesy of Big World Pictures

TOUCH OF EVIL Image courtesy of Universal Pictures

A TALE OF WINTER Image courtesy of Big World Pictures

CRY-BABY Image courtesy of Universal Pictures

GREY GARDENS Image courtesy of Janus Films

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Image courtesy of the artists

JULY Karin Schneider and Nicolás Guagnini Primary Green (2002)

An unconventional portrait of an equally unconventional subject, Primary Green documents the work of influential-but-enigmatic Argentine architect, theorist, designer, and curator Emilio Ambasz. While many of his most radical designs were never realized, Ambasz was a pioneer in the “green architecture” movement. He is also known for his landmark 1972 curatorial project Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, which introduced American audiences to the work of Italian designers from the 1960s and early 70s. (37 mins., video)

CONTEMPORARY SCREEN A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson, 2014)

FRI–SAT, AUG 14–15 | 7 pm

“No one—really, no one—makes movies like Roy Andersson.”—THE A.V. CLUB Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the latest film by the Swedish genius Roy Andersson takes its title from a perverse reading of Bruegel’s 1565 painting The Hunters in the Snow. Like a modern day Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, two traveling salesmen peddling novelty items take us on a kaleidoscopic stroll through human destinies. This all plays out in

Andersson’s distinctively detailed and mordantly comic vignettes, which took four years of rigorous planning and meticulous execution to capture. The film is the final part of Andersson’s trilogy “on being a human being,” after the remarkable Songs from the Second Floor and You, the Living. (101 mins., DCP) Image courtesy of Magnolia Pictures

VISITING FILMMAKER

Director Eric Obenauf introduces

Image courtesy of the artist

I’m Not Patrick (2014)

AUGUST Jesse McLean

TUE, JULY 21 | 7 pm

The Invisible World (2012) Featured at countless international film festivals, The Invisible World combines home movies, YouTube clips, 70s sci-fi films, music by Electric Light Orchestra, and original footage to provide a fascinating look at materialism and what happens to our objects after we’re gone.

What is the fate of hoarders in the digital age?

(20 mins., video)

I’M NOT PATRICK Image courtesy of Two Dollar Radio

The first film produced by the acclaimed Columbus-based, family-run boutique publisher Two Dollar Radio, I’m Not Patrick is a black comedy that follows Seth, a teenager whose twin brother, Patrick, has suddenly and tragically committed suicide. Seth doesn’t know what to feel, despite the eagerness with which everyone offers suggestions about what a typical reaction to a twin’s suicide would be. Against all this, Seth struggles to assert his individuality and insist that “I’m not Patrick.” The film’s director, Eric Obenauf, joins us to introduce the screening. (72 mins., video)

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NEW DOCUMENTARY

TICKET INFO

The Best of Enemies

$8 general public

(Morgan Neville & Robert Gordon, 2015)

FRI–SAT, AUG 21–22 | 7 pm In the summer of 1968 television news changed forever.

Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement and Gore Vidal a leftist novelist and polemicist. Believing that each other’s ideologies were dangerous for America, their explosive exchanges ranged from policy debates to vitriolic name-calling with a level of wit that any stand-up comedian would envy. Ratings skyrocketed and a new era in public discourse was born. Skilled directors Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet from Stardom) unleash a highbrow blood sport that marked the dawn of pundit television as we know it. (88 mins., DCP) Image courtesy of Magnolia Pictures

$6 members, students, senior citizens $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. In-person ticket sales continue until a half-hour 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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THROUGH AUGUST 2, 2015

Catherine Opie Portraits and Landscapes

The work of renowned photographer Catherine Opie (b. 1961) returns to our galleries with this recent series of formal portraits and intriguingly abstract landscapes. Among the over 40 color photographs on view, you’ll discover new developments—and stunning departures—in the Ohio-born artist’s practice. The visually sumptuous portraits, in which Opie employs theatrical lighting and saturated color to render her subjects in intimate detail, offer a fascinating contrast to landscapes that depict nature as a haze of blurred color and light. As a recent Artforum review notes, the exhibition “promises to open another chapter in Opie's ongoing—and thoroughly indispensable—photographic story.”

Organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts and curated by Bill Horrigan, Wexner Center Curator at Large.

FROM TOP CATHERINE OPIE Installation view of Catherine Opie: Portraits and Landscapes at the Wexner Center. Photo: Katie Spengler.

John, 2013. Pigment print, 33 x 25 in. © Catherine Opie, images courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.

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 BuckID)

FREE ADMISSION DAYS

Every Thursday 4–8 pm and on the first Sunday of each month SUPPORT FOR FREE ADMISSION DAYS

Jack Whitten Explore the formally inventive abstract paintings of African American artist Jack Whitten in this dynamic, career-spanning retrospective. Born and raised in Alabama, Whitten (b. 1939) began painting in the 1960s, creating works that responded to a tumultuous political landscape that included the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Vietnam War. Over his career, Whitten’s work has encompassed highly textured canvases; paintings with surfaces “processed” by tools; and mosaic-like, mixed-media compositions.

Today, Whitten continues to respond to current events and pay homage to friends and public figures in his highly personalized yet incredibly approachable style.

Walk-in Tours

Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and made possible by generous lead underwriting support from Dr. Paul Jacobs and corporate support from RBC Wealth Management.

Additional funding has been provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, LLWW Foundation, and proceeds from the 2014 Biennial Art Auction. Institutional support for MCASD is provided by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture and the County of San Diego Community Enhancement Fund.

ABOVE JACK WHITTEN Black Monolith, II: Homage to Ralph Ellison The Invisible Man, 1994. Acrylic, molasses, copper, salt, coal, ash, chocolate, onion, herbs, rust, eggshell, and razor blade on canvas, 58 x 52 in. Brooklyn Museum, William K. Jacobs, Jr. Fund 2014.65.

Chinese Doorway, 1974. Acrylic on canvas, 89 1/2 x 43 1/4 in. Penny Pritzker and Bryan Traubert Collection. © 2015 Jack Whitten/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.

SAT, JULY 11 | 1 pm THU, JULY 23 | 5 pm SAT, AUG 1 | 1 pm MEET AT THE GALLERY ENTRANCE Make the most of your visit to the galleries with a guided walk-in tour. Tours are free with gallery admission, which is free on Thursday evenings. No registration is required, and you’ll have plenty of time to ask questions and discuss the works on view. Extend your tour with a visit to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum led by Wexner Center docents. Contact (614) 292-6493 or edweb@wexarts.org for details.

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onView IN THE GALLERIES THROUGH AUGUST 2

Catherine Opie: Portraits and Landscapes Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting

The Box JULY

Karin Schneider and Nicolás Guagnini Primary Green

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I’m Not Patrick introduced by Eric Obenauf

AUGUST

Jesse McLean The Invisible World

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

Store Hit the road, head back to school, or send someone off in style with great gear from the Wexner Center Store. You’ll find a range of housewares, magazines, music, books, and jewelry you won’t find anywhere else in Columbus. Shop in store or online at store.wexarts.org. Don’t forget: members and Ohio State students save on all store purchases!

Heirloom Café

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The Heirloom Urban Garden has been working hard to provide the freshest ingredients for our tasty, creatively prepared fare. Enjoy the rewards of our harvest, including the return of a summer favorite: our heirloom tomato salad (available by late July).

After a brief break (we’re closed June 27–July 5), Heirloom is open regular hours this summer (Mon–Wed 8 am–4 pm, Thu–Fri 8 am–8 pm), so join us for breakfast, lunch, or dinner before a Wex event.

Your Ticket to Free Admission Gallery admission is free with your purchase of a film/video or performing arts ticket (offer good only for the day of the screening or event). Enjoy free gallery admission every day as a Wex member: visit wexarts.org/join or the Patron Services Desk for details.

Get involved Looking for a way to learn more about contemporary art while connecting to others who share your interests? Think about becoming a part of Wexner Center’s docent or usher programs. Learn more at wexarts.org/volunteer. Applications are due July 24.

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Summer Hours

Please check wexarts.org or the back page of this calendar for our special summer hours, in effect through August 23.

The Bridge on the River Kwai Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

4k restoration!

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Zulu

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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

widescreen technirama!

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War of the Worlds

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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

70mm print!

70mm print!

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Rebels of the Neon God

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

Rebels of the Neon God

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

35mm technicolor!

PA FREE WORK-IN-PROGRESS DISCUSSION

Improbable Opening Skinner’s Box artist residency award project Performance Space | 7:30 pm FV WEX DRIVE-IN

Touch of Evil

Wexner Center Plaza | dusk

35mm print!

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Kiss Me Kate

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Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

3d presentation!

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A Tale of Winter Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

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A Tale of Winter Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

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In Cold Blood

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Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

Grey Gardens

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Grey Gardens

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

cinemascope/4k restoration!

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The Tingler introduced by Film Forum’s Bruce Goldstein

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A Poem Is a Naked Person

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A Poem Is a Naked Person

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

“expanded cinema” presentation!

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3D Rarities

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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

restored from 35mm!

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

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Cry-Baby

Wexner Center Plaza | dusk

35mm print!

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The Tales of Hoffmann

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The Best of Enemies

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

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The Best of Enemies

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

4k restoration!

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Tron

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Tron

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

70mm print!

70mm print!

TRON Image courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures

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IMPROBAB wexner center artist residency award project

Opening Skinner’s Box work-in-progress discussion

THU, JULY 16 | 7:30 pm PERFORMANCE SPACE FREE for all audiences (tickets required, visit tickets.wexarts.org) Reception follows Welcome back ever-innovative British theater ensemble Improbable, who return this summer for a multiweek creative residency to develop their next production, Opening Skinner’s Box. Based on American writer Lauren Slater’s 2004 book of the same name, Opening Skinner’s Box illuminates surprising truths about human nature as revealed in a famous series of psychological experiments—including those of stillcontroversial behaviorist B. F. Skinner—and delves into the fascinating stories behind them. Spearheaded by Improbable co-artistic directors Phelim McDermott and Lee Simpson and shaped by their trademark mix of clever wit, penetrating insight, and inventive stagecraft, Opening Skinner’s Box promises to be another in a series of memorable Improbable productions that Wex audiences have enthusiastically enjoyed over the years.

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Join us at this sure-to-be-lively discussion for an inside look at the progress Improbable have made during their residency—then meet the artists at a reception following the talk. Admission is free but tickets are required; visit tickets.wexarts.org to get yours today.

This is the third Artist Residency Award for Improbable: the Wexner Center also supported development of their productions The Hanging Man (2003) and Panic (2009). The company presented 70 Hill Lane (1999) and Spirit (2001) at the Wex, and Improbable’s Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch directed and designed the acclaimed production Shockheaded Peter, which had its US premiere here in 2000. We’re proud this notable London-based ensemble finds a second home in Columbus, right here at the Wex. The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University is lead commissioner of Improbable’s Opening Skinner’s Box through its Artist Residency Award program. The work is co-commissioned by Lincoln Center Festival, New York; West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, UK; and Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. PHELIM MCDERMOTT Image courtesy of Improbable Illustration: Fanatic Studio/Getty Images

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The Wex’s online ticketing platform is easy and convenient to use, and you can even print your tickets at home whenever you like. Member and student tickets are available, too, for most events.

Please contact houseweb@wexarts.org with questions about accessibility and ADA-related accommodations for any event.

BLE Improbable on Opening Skinner’s Box

Here’s what Improbable’s Phelim McDermott and Lee Simpson have to say about Lauren Slater’s book and their eponymously titled production: Opening Skinner’s Box is about 10 great psychological experiments, but really it’s a collection of 10 extraordinary stories.

The experiments themselves are like great stories and are sometimes extraordinarily theatrical. They address important questions; they reveal surprising, sometimes shocking truths; and the shockwaves from those truths impact on everything from drug addiction to the reasons why we love. From the definition of insanity to explaining the Holocaust.

They kind of blow your mind.

Opening Skinner’s Box also opens up the stories behind each experiment: the people who made them and opposed them, the knowledge they uncovered and the backlash they provoked. In a world full of incredible discoveries, it is the controversy and debate that surrounds these particular scientists and their methods that has played a large part in making them an essential part of the conversation about who we are.

Which begs the question: Is it good science or a good story that cements your place in history?

Lauren Slater puts herself into the stories she tells, recreating some of the experiments and sometimes using them on her own family. Similarly, the show will revolve around the character of Lauren Slater as she journeys through the stories of these great experimenters and their experiments. She becomes us, looking beyond the graphs and the data to ask what these experiments and their results really mean to you and me. She will be our guide and the person who asks the questions that we would want to ask and tells the stories that we would want to hear.

In the introduction to her book, Slater says of these experiments, “At their best they are compressed experience, life distilled to its potentially elegant essence, the metaphorical test tube parsing the normally blended parts so you might see love, or fear, or conformity, or cowardice play its role in particular circumscribed contexts. . . . Peering through this lens is to see something of ourselves.”

Member News & Events YOUR MEMBERSHIP, EXPANDED Your Wexner Center membership has never been more valuable—or versatile—thanks to new and expanded reciprocal membership programs.

In addition to your already great benefits at the Wex—which include free gallery admission, member-priced event tickets, and discounts at our store and café—the recently expanded Ohio Museum Reciprocal Membership program grants you free admission to the Columbus Museum of Art, as well as discounts in the CMA store and café. Through the Member Advantage program, you can enjoy buy-one, get-one-free admission to such central Ohio attractions as the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, COSI, Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, King Arts Complex, and the Ohio History Center and Ohio Village.

Don’t forget that members at the Household level and above receive free admission and select benefits at more than 450 major arts institutions across North America, including the New Museum in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Visit wexarts.org/join for a complete list.

Taking advantage of your expanded benefits is easy. Simply show your Wexner Center membership card when you visit our partner institutions.

SAVE THE DATE!

26th Anniversary Party Join us to celebrate the Wexner Center’s 26th anniversary on Saturday, November 14, 2015. This not-tobe-missed party has it all: music, dancing, extraordinary art, delicious food, divine cocktails, and much more.

The anniversary party is a thank-you event enjoyed by the members of our Donor Circles and Corporate Council at qualifying levels. Find out more about how you or your business can benefit from Wexner Center membership by contacting Christy Rosenthal at (614) 292-3096 or crosenthal@wexarts.org.

Fall Student Party FRI, SEPT 18 | 9 pm–midnight WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS FREE for Ohio State students

Grab a mug, save on drinks at Wex Drive-In Pick up a new Film Lives Here mug and save $1 on drinks at this summer’s Wex Drive-In screenings. Mugs are free for members and $5 for nonmembers. Stop by the member table or bar during the films to get yours (cash only); mugs are also available at the Wexner Center Store and Seventh Son Brewing. See the film/video pages for this summer’s lineup.

Ohio State students, mark your calendar for this welcome-back party at the Wex just for you. We’re keeping the galleries open late so you can be among the first to see our new exhibition, After Picasso: 80 Contemporary Artists. While you’re here, feast on free food, take in a free film, enjoy fun games and prizes, meet fellow art fans, and more. In the meantime, don’t forget that you can always enjoy great discounts on films and performing arts events, plus savings in our store every day. Don’t be a stranger!

Photo: A. J. Zanyk

Which we think is a pretty good way to describe theatre.

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Here’s How to Join: Online: wexarts.org/join On site: Visit the Patron Services Desk or Wexner Center Store By phone: Call (614) 292-1777

Get ready for fall by perusing our season highlights right here and online. Members still enjoy the best selection of shows and seats—plus discounted prices—during our presale period. So act fast to get your tickets to these not-to-be-missed events.

Fall 2015 Highlights MEMBER PRESALE AUGUST 1–15 PUBLIC TICKET SALES BEGIN AUGUST 16

onView After Picasso: 80 Contemporary Artists SEPTEMBER 19–DECEMBER 27 Occupying all of our galleries this fall, After Picasso traces the legendary figure’s potent legacy and persistent impact on a wide array of international artists across multiple generations. The exhibition features over 150 works in a variety of media from a who’s who of modern and contemporary artists, including Walead Beshty, Marlene Dumas, Jasper Johns, Martin Kippenberger, Maria Lassnig, Louise Lawler, Andy Warhol, and many more. Organized in cooperation with Deichtorhallen Hamburg.

HANS-PETER FELDMANN Ohne Titel (Picasso). Oil on wood, 14.2 x 11.4 in.

VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn for Hans-Peter Feldmann.

inSight Zoom: Family Film Festival Featuring Zoom Family Studio with Julian McFaul

Director’s Dialogue on Art and Social Change Featuring Cincinnati Goddamn

DECEMBER 3–6

Advancing the role of the arts in sparking meaningful dialogue about contemporary issues, this fall’s Director’s Dialogue features the powerful and timely documentary Cincinnati Goddamn.

Supported by our Film/Video Studio Program, the film captures the personal trauma and civic unrest that followed the deaths of 15 African American men at the hands of Cincinnati police from 1995 to 2001. Join us for this free screening and compelling discussion with filmmakers April Martin and the Wex’s own Paul Hill.

Families won’t want to miss our 12th year of Zoom, which adds an amazing hands-on component to our weekend of films for all ages: a free fortbuilding experience on December 5 with visiting artist Julian McFaul. Make your own cardboard fort, which will be added to the base of a giant sculptural installation—complete with a movie screen that we’ll use for selected Zoom screenings.

CINCINNATI GODDAMN Photo: Melvin Grier

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onStage Jan Martens Sweat Baby Sweat US PREMIERE

OCTOBER 8–9

The Dog Days Are Over OCTOBER 11–12 Introducing international innovators is a highlight of every season at the Wex. This fall, discover the distinctive approach of rising Flemish choreographer Jan Martens with two of his bestknown works: the intimately detailed duet Sweat Baby Sweat and his literally breathtaking ensemble work The Dog Days Are Over.

The Bad Plus Joshua Redman OCTOBER 20 Will this be our best season for jazz to date? Here’s a hint of what’s on tap in Columbus's best room for jazz: this special collaboration between Wex faves The Bad Plus and sax star Joshua Redman. Sample their just-released self-titled CD on Nonesuch for a preview of this “roaring and beautiful summit meeting” (NPR).

onScreen Dziga Vertov Man with a Movie Camera with live music by the Alloy Orchestra SEPTEMBER 14

Geoff Sobelle The Object Lesson OCTOBER 28–31 Don’t miss this Edinburgh Festival award-winning performance/installation piece by solo physical theater artist and master illusionist Geoff Sobelle.

The aptly titled work is a magical and comic rumination on the stuff we cling to—and the junk we leave behind.

THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER Photo © Piet Goethals

The renowned musical ensemble that Roger Ebert called “the best in the world at accompanying silent film” returns to the Wex with a new restoration of Dziga Vertov’s 1929 tour-de-force masterpiece Man with a Movie Camera, recently named the greatest documentary of all time by Sight & Sound magazine.

Satyajit Ray The Apu Trilogy SEPTEMBER 10, 17, 24 Two decades after the original negatives were lost in a fire, Satyajit Ray’s breathtaking milestone of world cinema rises from the ashes. These meticulously reconstructed, new 4K digital restorations of Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956), and Apur Sansar (1959) will take you on an achingly beautiful, visually radiant journey that’s a must for any lover of film.

Picture Lock: 25 Years of Film/Video Residencies at the Wex OCTOBER 29–NOVEMBER 1 Over the years, our Film/Video Studio Program has invited a remarkable array of artists and filmmakers to develop their work at the Wex. This four-day festival celebrates this history through public conversations with past artistsin-residence, including Guy Maddin, Tom Kalin, (and pictured at right) Kevin Everson, Sam Green, Jennifer Reeder, and Deborah Stratman; screenings from our archive; and area premieres of new work (including Maddin’s The Forbidden Room and Reeder’s Blood Below the Skin).

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MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA Still courtesy of Lobster Films

PICTURE LOCK Over the years the staff of our Film/Video Studio have taken Polaroids of filmmakers in residence.

Shop for summer fun.

CONEY ISLAND: VISIONS OF AN AMERICAN DREAMLAND, 1861–2008 Yale University Press

BINARY STAR: A NOVEL

BY SARAH GERARD Two Dollar Radio Press

WHERE CHEFS EAT: A GUIDE TO CHEFS’ FAVORITE RESTAURANTS Phaidon

MARIMEKKO FLEXI JOURNAL Unikko Pattern Chronicle Books

Calling all Ohio artists, designers, makers, and artisans!

OXBLOOD LEATHER TOTE WITH DETACHABLE CLUTCH Clawkeeper

WE'RE LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD PRODUCTS.

“THIS BAG IS NOT YOURS” LEATHER BAG TAG Owen & Fred

SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED THROUGH JULY. AVAILABLE SOON IN THE WEXNER CENTER STORE. GRASS LEAF BALLPOINT PENS Kikkerland

Summer Hours Galleries

Calendar of Events Published 6 times a year Volume 27, Number 4 July+August 2015

THROUGH AUGUST 23

Store

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Information Visiting the Wexner Center L o c at i o n The Wexner Center for the Arts is located on the campus of Ohio State University at the corner of High Street and 15th Avenue. Off-site locations for other Wexner Center events are noted throughout this calendar/newsletter.

Parking Parking is available in the Ohio Union Garages on campus and at the South Campus Gateway Garage, located one block east of North High Street between 9th and 11th Avenues. Very limited, shortterm parking is available at the parking meters in front of Mershon Auditorium. c h e c k f o r u p d at e s Check wexarts.org or call (614) 292-3535 for updates. All programs are subject to change.

Galleries Please note that the Wexner Center galleries are closed Mondays and between exhibitions. See the exhibitions pages for a current schedule.

Ticketing services for sales and pickup of prepaid tickets are available at event locations one hour prior to showtimes.

Film/Video tickets are available until a half-hour after showtimes or until the start of the second film of double features. (Sorry, no refunds or exchanges for Wexner Center tickets, unless an event is canceled.) osu students All Ohio State University students receive benefits including discounts in the Wexner Center Store and on films and performing arts events. Check out the schedules in the calendar and on the website! r e n ta l s Mershon Auditorium and selected Wexner Center spaces are available for corporate meetings or gatherings. See wexarts.org for details.

Please make reservations for all group tours at least three weeks in advance.

Call the education department at (614) 292-6493.

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Leslie H. Wexner Chair Michael V. Drake, MD Vice Chair

The Wexner Center for the Arts is part of The Ohio State University and receives major institutional support from the university. Major support is also provided through the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation and by Wexner Center members. The foundation is a private, nonprofit partner of the university’s Board of Trustees, established to provide trustee guidance and financial support for the Wexner Center. g e n e r a l O p e r at i n g S u p p o rt for the Wexner Center

Bill Lambert President Trustees David M. Aronowitz Jeni Britton Bauer Shelley Bird Michael J. Canter Adam Flatto Sherri Geldin Ann Gilbert Getty Michael Glimcher Elizabeth P. Kessler C. Robert Kidder Nancy Kramer James E. Kunk Mark D. Kvamme James Lyski Ronald A. Pizzuti Robert P. Powers Janet B. Reid, PhD Joyce Shenk Alex Shumate Abigail S. Wexner John F. Wolfe Ex Officio 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 Calendar of Events Staff Erica Anderson Director of Creative Services Brandon Ballog Graphic Designer Barret Hoster Graphic Designer Kristen Grayewski Associate Editor Annie Jacobson Graduate Associate Sylke Krell Manger of Production

Tours group tours Prearranged group tours are available to school, youth, and college/university audiences, as well as adult community groups. These hour-long tours can be tailored to many different interests.

ON THE COVER: CRY-BABY Image courtesy of Universal Pictures

Wexner Center Foundation General Support

Tickets Purchase tickets at tickets.wexarts.org or from the Patron Services Desk (614) 292-3535 on the entrance level of the Wexner Center.

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walk-in tours Walk-in Tours require no advance reservations. These tours feature highlights of the current exhibitions.

See the current schedule inside this calendar.

Ryan Shafer Editor