September/October 2015 Calendar by Wexner Center for the Arts

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SEPTEMBER+OCTOBER 2015 EVENTS

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SEPTEMBER 19–DECEMBER 27

Explore Pablo Picasso’s potent legacy and persistent impact on several generations of artists in this vibrant exhibition occupying all our galleries this fall. After Picasso features nearly 150 works in a variety of mediums. Among those included are such Picasso peers as Brassaï, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Henri-Cartier Bresson, and Dora Maar. Plus you’ll find contemporary masters like Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Cindy Sherman, William Wegman, Louise Lawler, Sigmar Polke, Amy Sillman, and Fred Wilson.

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LOUISE LAWLER Big, 2002/2003 Cibachrome mounted on museum box 52 3/4 x 46 1/2 in. Collection of Dominique Lévy Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures

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After Picasso offers the perfect bookend to Transfigurations: Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection, which featured 19 works by Picasso and inaugurated our 25th Anniversary Season last September. Originally titled Picasso in Contemporary Art, the exhibition was first presented at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg on the occasion of its own 25th anniversary and curated by the institution’s general director, Dirk Luckow. After Picasso: 80 Contemporary Artists has been organized in cooperation with Deichtorhallen Hamburg.

FRED WILSON Picasso/Whose Rules?, 1991 Mixed media construction and video 95 x 77 1/2 x 7 in. Collection of the Matthew & Iris Strauss Family Foundation, Rancho Santa Fe, CA © Fred Wilson, courtesy of Pace Gallery

SANDRO MILLER Irving Penn/Pablo Picasso, Cannes France (1957), 2014 Pigment print 18 x 18 3/4 in. Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago © Sandro Miller / Image courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery

ZHANG HONGTU Bird's nest in the style of cubism, 2008 Oil on canvas 36 x 48 in. Courtesy of the artist

Wexner Center members can visit After Picasso as many times as they like, with free admission every time. Sign up today at wexarts.org/join. Or join when you come to the exhibition, and we’ll credit your admission toward your membership.

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Exhibition Preview and Opening Celebration FRI, SEPT 18 CURATOR’S TALK WITH DIRK LUCKOW | 5 pm RECEPTION | 6–8:30 pm Celebrate our fall exhibition and hear from curator Dirk Luckow, who’ll share his thoughts on the making of After Picasso and the artist’s continued legacy. The talk begins at 5 pm in the Film/Video Theater. Stay afterward for complimentary snacks, a cash bar, and music by DJ Trueskillz in our café. The galleries open at 4 pm. Don’t miss it! RSVP at wexarts.org/rsvp or by emailing rsvp@wexarts.org.

Fall Student Party FRI, SEPT 18 | 9 pm–midnight Ohio State students, join us to celebrate the opening of our fall exhibition with free food, live music, great giveaways, a free screening of Mad Max: Fury Road at 10 pm—and much more. The party’s just one of many great things we’ve got in store for you at the Wex. Visit wexarts.org or flip to the inSight page of this calendar for details.

Artist’s Talk: Zhang Hongtu THU, NOV 5 | 4:30 pm FILM/VIDEO THEATER New York–based artist Zhang Hongtu has long used Western art history to comment on his native China’s past and present. His Bird’s nest in the style of cubism (2008), featured in After Picasso, adopts the artist’s style of analytic cubism to critique Beijing’s hosting of the 2008 Summer Olympics (and was seized by Chinese authorities on its way to an Olympic-themed exhibition). Ohio State History of Art Professor Julia Andrews, a leading scholar in Chinese contemporary art, joins Zhang for the talk. Stop by the galleries at 6 pm for a free docent-led tour.

Super Sunday

In the Style of…

SUN, NOV 1 | noon–5 pm Explore the many ways artists have been influenced by Pablo Picasso—and try your hand at making your own Picasso-inspired works—at our next Super Sunday. Open to the community, Super Sundays feature free gallery admission and a range of fun, free activities for all ages.

Walk-in Tours THU, SEPT 24 | 5 pm SAT, OCT 3 | 1 pm THU, OCT 22 | 5 pm THU, NOV 5 | 6 pm 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; just meet us at the entrance to the galleries. 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.

Expand your Experience Explore selected works in After Picasso using our special augmented reality app! You can experience the artworks in a whole new way through the interactive program, which accesses photos, videos, and other content to help put you into the mind of the artist. It’s free—just pick up an iPad mini as you enter the galleries.

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general public

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

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OCTOBER 29–NOVEMBER 1

Discover the Wexner Center’s best-kept secret and a rich legacy of film and video created right here in Columbus. Over the years, the Film/Video Studio Program has welcomed a remarkable array of artists and filmmakers from around the world to work in our state-of-the-art postproduction facility. Picture Lock celebrates this illustrious history by inviting some of our favorite filmmakers back to present their own work along with rare screenings from our extensive archive. festival pass $25 members, students, seniors $30 general public Price includes admission for all talks and screenings. Tickets for individual programs are also available. Planning your visit Visit wexarts.org/overnight for information on accomodations in Columbus.

Jason Simon, Gregg Bordowitz, and Bill Horrigan present Art & Technology: The Early Years THU, OCT 29 | 4:30 pm FREE Learn about the evolution of the Film/ Video Studio Program (originally called Art & Technology) in a conversation between the program’s first curator, NY-based artist Jason Simon, and Chicago-based artist/activist Gregg Bordowitz (Fast Trip/Long Drop, Habit). The discussion is moderated by the program’s founding director, current Wex Curator at Large Bill Horrigan, and follows a screening of videos from our archive.

Steven Bognar and Paul Hill present Made in Ohio THU, OCT 29 | 7 pm Support your local filmmaker! Join longtime studio editor Paul Hill and Academy Award– nominated, Emmy-winning filmmaker and past Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient Steven Bognar (A Lion in the House, The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant) as they share some of their favorite Ohio-made works from the archive and discuss the challenges and opportunities of making films in the Buckeye State. (approx. 90 mins.)

Deborah Stratman and Kevin Jerome Everson present Film Lives Here FRI, OCT 30 | 4:30 pm FREE While primarily supporting work created in the digital realm, the studio has long been committed to the medium of film, offering the use of our Aaton 16mm camera and 8-plate Steenbeck editor to interested artists. Past Artist Residency Award recipient Deborah Stratman (In Order Not to Be Here, O’er the Land, Hacked Circuit) and Ohio-born filmmaker Kevin Everson (Erie, Chevelle, Century) present a program of works from our archive that were shot in 16mm and discuss the challenges and benefits of working in this format.

Tom Kalin and Isaac Julien present New Queer Cinema and Beyond FRI, OCT 30 | 7 pm

Rock Hudson’s Home Movies (Mark Rappaport, 1992)

FRI, OCT 30 | 9 pm Mark Rappaport’s provocative, rule-breaking feature film mines the filmography of Hollywood star Rock Hudson to reveal on-screen clues about his offscreen sexuality. The leading man of such classics as Giant (1956), Hudson was one of the first celebrities to die during the AIDS epidemic, in 1985. Part documentary, part biopic, the film features actor Eric Farr portraying (and often pictured alongside) Hudson himself, leading the viewer through a dizzying assortment of clips. (63 mins., video)

The early years of the studio witnessed a wave of support for young gay and lesbian independent filmmakers from the (then) newly christened New Queer Cinema movement. Join us as we reunite producer and director Tom Kalin (Swoon, Savage Grace) and past Artist Residency Award recipient Isaac Julien (Looking for Langston, Young Soul Rebels, Derek) for a discussion of their work and the evolution of this movement. They’ll also present a screening of works from our archive made by LGBTQ artists.

Jennifer Reeder and Mike Olenick present Anatomy of an Edit SAT, OCT 31 | 2 pm Chicago-based filmmaker and past Artist Residency Award recipient Jennifer Reeder returns to her hometown for the Ohio premiere of Blood Below the Skin (2015, 38 mins., DCP). Following the screening, Reeder and Mike Olenick, her longtime editor at the Wex, illuminate the editing process, showing examples of the film as it evolved in postproduction and discussing the creative relationship that so often develops during studio residencies.

Photo: Melvin Grier

Director’s Dialogue on Art and Social Change Featuring Cincinnati Goddamn (April Martin and Paul Hill, 2015)

WED, SEPT 2 | 7 pm

Jacqueline Goss and Jenny Perlin introduce and narrate The Measures

MERSHON AUDITORIUM FREE

(Jacqueline Goss and Jenny Perlin, 2014)

SAT, OCT 31 | 4:30 pm In the midst of the French Revolution, two astronomers embarked on individual journeys across Europe to measure the Earth and, through their findings, help determine the true length of one meter. Incorporating a performative element of live narration by the filmmakers, The Measures retraces the astronomers’ journeys from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel, exploring the social, intellectual, and political history that surrounded the metric system’s origins as well as the complexities of collaboration. (46 mins., DCP)

Cocktail Reception SAT, OCT 31 | 6 pm FREE

Sam Green and Lucy Raven present Reframing Documentary

See the inSight section for more about this fall’s Director’s Dialogue, which features a new film supported by our Film/Video Studio Program: the powerful and timely documentary Cincinnati Goddamn. The screening is followed by a discussion featuring filmmakers April Martin and the studio’s own Paul Hill. (100 mins., video)

SUN, NOV 1 | 1 pm The studio is no stranger to the documentary form, and over the past 25 years we’ve supported numerous projects both traditional and experimental. Past Artist Residency Award recipients Lucy Raven (China Town, Curtains) and Sam Green (The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, The Measure of All Things) return to the Wex to present a selection of documentaries from the archive and to discuss their unique approaches to this ever-evolving genre. (approx. 90 mins.)

Mingle with artists and filmmakers and toast the Film/Video Studio Program at this free public reception with cash bar and light fare in our lower lobby.

Flag Wars

(Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras, 2003)

SUN, NOV 1 | 3 pm

“I’ve never taken LSD and wandered around a film archive, but I imagine the experience might be similar to The Forbidden Room.” —GUARDIAN (UK)

Guy Maddin introduces The Forbidden Room

Filmed in Columbus’s Olde Towne East neighborhood over a period of four years, Flag Wars is a very personal account of urban gentrification and its effects on a community. Now a common phenomenon, gay families began moving into the area in the 1990s—attracted by and renovating its relatively inexpensive Victorian homes— increasing property values and displacing the neighborhood’s working-class families, many of them African American. Clashes arise, exposing prejudice and self-interest on both sides as well as the common dream of having a home to call your own. (86 mins., video)

Image courtesy of the artist; Frith Street Gallery, London, and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris

SEPTEMBER Tacita Dean

From Columbus, Ohio to the Partially Buried Woodshed (1999)

A quest for evidence of artist Robert Smithson’s iconic 1970 work Partially Buried Woodshed led 1999 Artist Residency Award recipient Tacita Dean, former Film/Video Studio Program curator Maria Troy, and current studio editor Paul Hill on a spontaneous road trip to its location at Kent State University. In this video based on their journey, Dean links past to present and deftly captures the idea of entropy in Smithson’s work. This Wex-supported project is one of only two digital videos to be made by the acclaimed artist, a champion of analogue filmmaking. (10 mins., video)

(Guy Maddin, codirected by Evan Johnson, 2015)

SAT, OCT 31 | 7 pm Spend your Halloween in the mind of iconoclastic Canadian filmmaker and past Artist Residency Award recipient Guy Maddin (Keyhole, The Saddest Music in the World), who returns to Columbus for the area premiere of The Forbidden Room. A humorous, surreal, and mesmerizing tale inspired by lost and unrealized films and supported by the Film/Video Studio Program, Maddin’s phantasmagoric opus is a visual feast that weaves together multiple stories and performances by Charlotte Rampling, Mathieu Amalric, Udo Kier, Maria de Medeiros, Louis Negin, and Géraldine Chaplin, among others. (117 mins., DCP)

Image courtesy of the artist

OCTOBER Deborah Stratman Hacked Circuit (2014)

A single-shot, choreographed portrait of the Foley process of creating sound effects for movies, Hacked Circuit shows Foley artists working on the closing scene of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 film The Conversation. Stratman, a regular visitor to the Wex’s Film/Video Studio Program, exposes this invisible aspect of filmmaking while also reflecting on government surveillance. (15 mins., HD video) Stratman joins us in person on Friday, October 30, as part of Picture Lock. See details at left. PICTURE LOCK: INSET FROM LEFT ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES Image courtesy of the artist BLOOD BELOW THE SKIN Image courtesy of the artist THE MEASURES Image courtesy of Jacqueline Goss and Jenny Perlin THE FORBIDDEN ROOM Image courtesy of Mongrel International

FLAG WARS Image courtesy of Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras BELOW Wexner Center for the Arts’ Film/Video Studio Over the years the staff of our Film/ Video Studio have taken Polaroids of filmmakers in residence.

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Two decades after its original negatives were burned in a fire, Satyajit Ray’s breathtaking milestone of world cinema rises from the ashes in a meticulously reconstructed new 4K digital restoration. The Apu Trilogy brought India into the golden age of international art-house film following one character, a free-spirited child in rural Bengal who matures into an urban adolescent student and finally a sensitive man of the world. They are among the most achingly beautiful, richly humane movies ever made—essential viewing for any lover of film. New restorations made by the Criterion Collection in collaboration with the Academy Film Archive at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Cosponsored by Ohio State’s South Asian Studies Initiative.

“The beauty of this restoration ... may be enough to move you to tears…. If these aren’t the most beautiful films ever made, they’re the most beautiful ones I know.” —STEPHANIE ZACHAREK, VILLAGE VOICE

trilogy pass $15 members, students, seniors $21 general public Tickets for individual films also available.

Pather Panchali

Aparajito

Apur Sansar

THU, SEPT 10 | 7 pm

THU, SEPT 17 | 7 pm

THU, SEPT 24 | 7 pm

Introduced by Brian Joseph, Distinguished University Professor in Ohio State’s Department of Linguistics and chair of the South Asian Studies Initiative

Introduced by Abhijit Varde, Ohio State’s Center for Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Introduced by Ohio State’s Abhijit Varde

(Satyajit Ray, 1955)

A depiction of rural Bengali life inspired by Italian neorealism, this naturalistic but poetic drama introduces us to both little Apu and the vivid and multifaceted members of his family. With resplendent photography informed by its young protagonist’s perpetual sense of discovery, the Cannesawarded Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) is an immersive cinematic experience and a film of elemental power. (125 mins., 4K DCP)

THIS PAGE FROM TOP Satyajit Ray and Apu Trilogy images courtesy of Janus Films OPPOSITE PAGE TOP JANE B. PAR AGNÈS V. Image courtesy of Cinelicious Pics INSETS FROM LEFT THE THIRD MAN Image courtesy of Rialto Pictures THE NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS Image courtesy of United Artists MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA Image courtesy of Lobster Films JANE B. PAR AGNÈS V. Image courtesy of Cinelicious Pics BELOW WALTER LANZ Knock Knock (1940, inset left) and Fair Weather Friends (1946, right) Images courtesy of Universal Pictures JEFF SMITH Bone 40, cover, 2001 Colored by Elizabeth Lewis Collection of The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum © Jeff Smith

(Satyajit Ray, 1956)

Aparajito (The Unvanquished) picks up where the first film leaves off, with Apu and his family having moved away from the country to the bustling holy city of Varanasi (then known as Benares). As Apu progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationship with his mother. This tenderly expressive, often heart-wrenching film won three top prizes at the Venice Film Festival, including the Golden Lion. (109 mins., 4K DCP)

(Satyajit Ray, 1959)

Apur Sansar (The World of Apu), the trilogy’s extraordinary final chapter, brings our protagonist’s journey full circle. Apu is now in his early twenties, out of college, and hoping to live as a writer. Alongside his professional ambitions, the film charts his romantic awakening, which occurs as the result of a most unlikely turn of events, and his eventual fraught fatherhood. Featuring soon-to-be Ray regulars Soumitra Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore in star-making performances, Apur Sansar demonstrates Ray’s ever-moreimpressive skills as a crafter of pure cinematic imagery. (105 mins., 4K DCP)

CLASSICS 4K RESTORATION!

The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)

THU–FRI, SEPT 3–4 | 7 pm

The Night of the Shooting Stars

Man with a Movie Camera

Don’t miss the first major restoration of this film noir, one of cinema’s greatest classics! Joseph Cotten plays a pulp writer who arrives in postwar Vienna to meet up with old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles) and finds himself drawn into a world of corruption. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and the Grand Prix at Cannes, The Third Man is the only film on both the American and British Film Institutes’ top 100 lists of the greatest American and British films (coming in at #57 and #1 respectively). (93 mins., 4K DCP)

FRI, SEPT 11 | 7 pm

Brothers’ The Night of the Shooting Stars makes a long overdue return to movie screens thanks to a recent restoration. Based on recollections from the directors’ childhoods, the film is set in the Tuscan countryside during the last days of WWII. Full of haunting imagery, the film chronicles—through the perspective of a young girl—the efforts of a diverse group of townspeople who set out to greet the advancing Allied forces while seeking refuge from Nazi and fascist atrocities. (107 mins., DCP)

The Wexner Center is proud to participate in the first annual Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC), a citywide festival whose mission is to celebrate the diversity of the cartoon arts and their creators and to highlight Columbus and its comics community for the world. Participating organizations include Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus Museum of Art, Thurber House, and Columbus Metropolitan Library. The fest is the brainchild of Bone creator and Columbus resident Jeff Smith and Cartoon Books president Vijaya Iyer. CXC events move downtown on Saturday to the Cultural Arts Center during the day and to CCAD in the evening as Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly join Jeff Smith for a conversation about their groundbreaking underground comics anthology Raw. Visit cartooncrossroadscolumbus.com for news, updates, and a complete festival schedule.

Jane B. par Agnès V.

(Agnès Varda, 1988)

With live music by Alloy Orchestra

(Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, 1982)

“One great scene after “One of the greatest films another! One great shot of the 1980s!” after another! I’ve seen it —FILM THREAT 50 times and it’s still magic.” An art-house triumph, the Taviani —ROGER EBERT

NEW RESTORATIONS!

Kung-Fu Master

(Dziga Vertov, 1929)

(Agnès Varda, 1988)

MON, SEP 14 | 7 pm

SAT, OCT 10 | 7 pm 2nd film | 8:45 pm

$8 members, students, seniors $10 general public The renowned musical ensemble that Roger Ebert called “the best in the world at accompanying silent film” makes its second Columbus appearance in conjunction with a restoration of Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera. Named the best documentary and the eighth greatest film in cinema history in recent polls by Sight & Sound, the film captures everyday urban life in the Soviet Union through a dizzying array of then-groundbreaking (and still invigorating) cinematic techniques. Based in Cambridge, MA, the Alloy Orchestra has accompanied a wide range of silent-era films in every corner of the US, as well as in dozens of countries abroad. (68 mins., DCP)

A Tribute to Walter Lantz and Universal Studios Animation Presented by Jerry Beck

THU, OCT 1 | 7 pm FILM/VIDEO THEATER $5 all audiences Cartoon historian Jerry Beck introduces a program of classic cartoons produced by the Walter Lantz Studio (creator of Woody Woodpecker) and released by Universal. (Program approx. 90 mins., DCP) Thanks to Paul Ginsburg, Universal Studios, for his assistance with this program.

Jeff Lemire FRI, OCT 2 | 3:30 pm FILM/VIDEO THEATER $5 all audiences Join us for a presentation by awardwinning cartoonist Jeff Lemire, best known for such books as Essex County Trilogy (2011) and The Nobody (2009).

See iconic actress, model, and muse Jane Birkin as you never have before in this rare pairing of films by legendary Paris-based filmmaker Agnès Varda. Newly restored and never released in the US, Jane B. par Agnès V. is a poetic documentary portrait of Birkin that also features actor Jean-Pierre Léaud; iconic French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, Birkin’s collaborator and lover; and their daughter Charlotte, now a notable actress and songwriter. (97 mins., DCP) Kung-Fu Master takes its name from the video game played obsessively by a teenager (Mathieu Demy, son of Varda and director Jacques Demy), who becomes the object of affection for single mother of two (Birkin) in this matter-of-fact “May-December” romance. (80 mins., DCP)

Bill Griffith FRI, OCT 2 | 4:30 pm FILM/VIDEO THEATER $5 all audiences Underground comics legend Bill Griffith (creator of the counterculture icon Zippy the Pinhead) discusses his first original graphic memoir, Invisible Ink: My Mother’s Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist.

Kate Beaton, Craig Thompson, and Jeff Smith in Conversation FRI, OCT 2 | 7 pm MERSHON AUDITORIUM FREE Join us for a freewheeling conversation between three of today’s most acclaimed and influential cartoonists: Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), Craig Thompson (Blankets), and Jeff Smith (Bone, RASL).

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Sundance Film Festival Shorts

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

WEXNER CENTER IS CLOSED IN OBSERVANCE OF LABOR DAY

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Man with a Movie Camera with live music by Alloy Orchestra

15 PP COSPONSORED EVENT

Writer’s Talk: William T. Vollmann

Film/Video Theater | 4 pm

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

IN THE GALLERIES BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 19

After Picasso: 80 Contemporary Artists

The Box SEPTEMBER

Tacita Dean From Columbus, Ohio to the Partially Buried Woodshed

FV CONTEMPORARY SCREEN

FV VISITING FILMMAKER

The Kindergarten Teacher

Golden Gate Girls introduced by S. Louisa Wei

Film/Video Theater | 1 pm

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

OCTOBER

Deborah Stratman Hacked Circuit

Store The Wexner Center Store is celebrating what Ohio has to offer with our brand new State Line collection of Wex-curated products from Ohio-based artists and designers. You’ll find stylish and functional housewares, great gifts, and accessories that’ll brighten any look. Shop in store or online at store.wexarts.org. Don’t forget members and Ohio State students save on all store purchases!

Heirloom Café Enjoy the fall harvest with a refreshed menu at Heirloom Café, where you can enjoy salads, sandwiches, and entrees filled with fresh seasonal ingredients from our own Heirloom Urban Garden. We’re open until 8 pm on Thursdays and Fridays, so join us for dinner, happy hour, or before a performance or film.

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Jan Martens The Dog Days Are Over

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Jan Martens The Dog Days Are Over

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Black Box on Mershon Stage 2 pm

PP WEXLAB

Face the Strange/Distort the Figure with Bryan Moss Register at tickets.wexarts.org

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The Decline of Western Civilization Part II, The Metal Years The Decline of Western Civilization Part III Film/Video Theater | 2 pm 2nd film 3:45 pm

1 EX EXHIBITION RELATED EVENT

Super Sunday: In the Style of…

Wexner Center | noon–5 pm FV PICTURE LOCK

Reframing Documentary with Sam Green and Lucy Raven Film/Video Theater | 1 pm

Flag Wars Film/Video Theater | 3 pm THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER Photo © Piet Goethals

13 PP COSPONSORED EVENT

Artist’s Talk: Basia Irland Film/Video Theater | 4:30 pm

Black Box on Mershon Stage 8 pm

20 FV SPECIAL EVENT

Byrd 1933: Films from the Discovery Lecture Series introduced by Lisa Carter and Pamela I. Theodotou Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

PA JAZZ

The Bad Plus Joshua Redman Performance Space | 7 & 9 pm

27 FV CONTEMPORARY SCREEN

Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

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PP DIRECTOR’S DIALOGUE ON ART AND SOCIAL CHANGE

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Cincinnati Goddamn Mershon Auditorium | 7 pm

9 FV VISITING FILMMAKER

The Garden of Earthly Delights presented by Ben Russell Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

The Third Man Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

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The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

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The Night of the Shooting Stars Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

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Tyondai Braxton Clark Performance Space | 8 pm

16 FV SPECIAL EVENT

John Matthias: Automystifistical Plaice Film/Video Theater | 4 pm

17 FV CLASSICS

The Apu Trilogy: Aparajito Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

18 EX AFTER PICASSO EXHIBITION PREVIEW

Curator’s Talk: Dirk Luckow Film/Video Theater | 5 pm

Reception

PP COSPONSORED EVENT

Galleries and Café | 6–8:30 pm

Artist’s Talk: Sarah Oppenheimer

PP FOR OHIO STATE STUDENTS Fall Student Party

Gui Auditorium, Knowlton School of Architecture | 5:30 pm

Wexner Center | 9 pm–midnight

24 FV CLASSICS

The Apu Trilogy: Apur Sansar

25 FV CONTEMPORARY SCREEN

Court

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

PP COSPONSORED EVENT

Artist’s Talk: Lyle Ashton Harris

Film/Video Theater | 4 pm

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Jeff Lemire

Film/Video Theater | 3:30 pm

Bill Griffith

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Horse Money

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm PA JAZZ

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Film/Video Theater | 4:30 pm

Linda Oh Sun Pictures

Performance Space | 8 pm

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

Kate Beaton, Craig Thompson, and Jeff Smith in Conversation

A Tribute to Walter Lantz presented by Jerry Beck

Mershon Auditorium | 7 pm

8 FV VISITING FILMMAKER

How to Dance in Ohio introduced by Alexandra Shiva and Bari Pearlman Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

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Jan Martens Sweat Baby Sweat

9 FV CONTEMPORARY SCREEN

Saint Laurent

Film/Video Theater | 8 pm PA DANCE

Jan Martens Sweat Baby Sweat

10 FV CLASSICS

Agnès Varda & Jane Birkin x 2 Jane B. par Agnès V. Kung-Fu Master Film/Video Theater | 7 pm 2nd film 8:45 pm

Performance Space | 8 pm

14 FV VISITING FILMMAKER

Miners Shot Down introduced by Rehad Desai

15 FV CONTEMPORARY SCREEN

Taxi

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

Film/Video Theater | 4 pm

16 PP FOR TEACHERS

Capital Day: Mindful Creativity Register at tickets.wexarts.org

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Taxi

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

21 FV VISITING FILMMAKER

NSEW: Films by Vanessa Renwick introduced by Vanessa Renwick

22 FV VISITING FILMMAKER

Penelope Spheeris Short Films: 1968–1998

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

28 PP COSPONSORED EVENT

Artist’s Talk: David Rothenberg

Film/Video Theater | 4:30 pm PA THEATER

Geoff Sobelle The Object Lesson Black Box on Mershon Stage | 8 pm

23 FV VISITING FILMMAKER

The Decline of Western Civilization introduced by Penelope Spheeris

Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

29 FV PICTURE LOCK

Art & Technology: The Early Years with Jason Simon, Gregg Bordowitz, and Bill Horrigan Film/Video Theater | 4:30 pm

Made in Ohio with Steven Bognar and Paul Hill Film/Video Theater | 7 pm PA THEATER

Geoff Sobelle The Object Lesson Black Box on Mershon Stage | 8 pm

30 FV PICTURE LOCK

Film Lives Here with Deborah Stratman and Kevin Jerome Everson Film/Video Theater | 4:30 pm

New Queer Cinema and Beyond with Tom Kalin and Isaac Julien Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

Rock Hudson’s Home Movies Film/Video Theater | 9 pm PA THEATER

Geoff Sobelle The Object Lesson Black Box on Mershon Stage | 8 pm

5 EX EXHIBITION RELATED EVENT

Artist’s Talk: Zhang Hongtu Film/Video Theater | 4:30 pm

6 PA JAZZ

Kneedelus: A Live Collaboration between Kneebody + Daedelus

Performance Space | 8 pm

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Geoff Sobelle The Object Lesson Black Box on Mershon Stage 2 & 8 pm

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Anatomy of an Edit with Jennifer Reeder and Mike Olenick Film/Video Theater | 2 pm

The Measures with Jacqueline Goss and Jenny Perlin Film/Video Theater | 4:30 pm

Cocktail Reception Lower Lobby | 6 pm

The Forbidden Room introduced by Guy Maddin Film/Video Theater | 7 pm

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VISITING FILMMAKERS The Garden of Earthly Delights: Recent Films by Ben Russell WED, SEPT 9 | 7 pm Renowned artist-filmmaker Ben Russell returns to present a trilogy of films, including a just-finished live performance work that’s an “epilogue” to the series. Taking its title from Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych, this program of (mostly) nonfiction works examines the ecstatic limits of utopia in the present. Moving from a postcolonial vision of Melanesian cargo cults and a documentary portrait of Atlantis to a world populated by dream-healers and Christian animists, each of these films takes a visceral and ethnographic approach towards its subject—which is also us. (approx. 100 mins., HD video) Cosponsored by The Center for Ongoing Research & Projects, where Russell has an exhibition opening on September 11.

Director Alexandra Shiva and producer Bari Pearlman

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How to Dance in Ohio (2015)

THU, OCT 8 | 7 pm FREE (visit wexarts.org for ticketing info) A favorite at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the touching documentary How to Dance in Ohio follows a group of autistic Columbus teenagers and young adults as they prepare for a spring formal. With humor and heartbreak, director Alexandra Shiva shows the daily courage of people facing their fears and opening themselves to the pain, worry, and joy of the social world. Join us for this sure-to-be-memorable screening and postscreening conversation with the filmmakers and many of the film’s subjects. (89 mins., DCP)

PENELOPE SPHEERIS Few filmmakers have produced as diverse a body of work as Penelope Spheeris. Best-known for her iconic Decline of Western Civilization documentaries, which trace 20 years of LA music and street culture, Spheeris has also produced projects with the likes of Albert Brooks and helmed such hit comedies as Wayne’s World (1992) and Black Sheep (1996). We are thrilled to welcome Spheeris and screen the Decline trilogy on the occasion of its restoration alongside a program of rarely seen short films. Penelope Spheeris

introduces

The Decline of Western Civilization

Director Rehad Desai

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(1981)

Miners Shot Down

FRI, OCT 23 | 7 pm

(2014)

$8 members, students, seniors, $10 general public

WED, OCT 14 | 4 pm FREE

Director S. Louisa Wei

introduces

Golden Gate Girls (2013)

TUE, SEPT 22 | 7 pm Golden Gate Girls tells the fascinating story of filmmaker Esther Eng: the most prominent female director in Hong Kong in the 1930s, and for most of the 1940s, the only woman directing feature-length films in the US. A San Francisco native and open lesbian, her contribution to film history is largely unknown and many of her 11 feature films remain lost. With newly discovered images and captivating interviews with those who knew Eng, filmmaker S. Louisa Wei uncovers a rich chapter of film history that challenges both gender hierarchies and national narratives. (88 mins., DCP) Stay after the screening for a discussion with Wei and Ohio State Professors Linda Mizejewski (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) and Judith Mayne (emerita, Department of French and Italian), who also appears in the film. Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Departments of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures.

THIS PAGE FROM LEFT HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO Image courtesy of Home Box Office Inc. GOLDEN GATE GIRLS Image courtesy of Women Make Movies MEDUSA SMACK Image courtesy of Vanessa Renwick THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION PENELOPE SPHEERIS THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: PART III Images courtesy of Spheeris Films

The gripping documentary Miners Shot Down explores a 2012 “wildcat” strike in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines. Six days into the strike, the police used live ammunition to suppress it, killing dozens and injuring even more. The tragedy portrayed in the film resonates beyond this single incident to question the lingering social and economic issues in South Africa’s nascent democracy. (86 mins., HD video) Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Departments of African American and African Studies, Comparative Studies, and the Center for African Studies.

Short Films 1968–1998 THU, OCT 22 | 7 pm Even as a student at UCLA, Spheeris displayed a level of confidence and creativity rare in such a young filmmaker. This program features six student films (1968–72) as well as No Use Walkin’ When You Can Stroll (1998), a humorous and sweet portrait of her one-time carny, ten-timesmarried mother. All display the irreverence and intimacy that would mark Spheeris’s work to follow. Visit wexarts.org for a complete lineup. (approx. 82 mins., various formats) Prints courtesy the Academy Film Archive.

Join Penelope Spheeris as she introduces her instant cult favorite The Decline of Western Civilization. Shot in 1979–80, the film captures LA’s punk music subculture with still-startling performance footage and interviews with the likes of the Circle Jerks, X, Black Flag, and more. (100 mins., DCP)

The Decline of Western Civilization: Part II, The Metal Years (1988) The Decline of Western Civilization: Part III (1998)

SUN, OCT 25 | 2 pm 2nd film 3:45 pm

NSEW: Films by Vanessa Renwick WED, OCT 21 | 7 pm Portland-based DIY filmmaker Vanessa Renwick, founder of the Oregon Department of Kick Ass, makes her long-overdue first visit to the Wex. Focusing on portraits of Portland outsiders or Pacific Northwest landscapes, her wildly eclectic filmography covers a spectrum of tones, styles, and subjects with works that are hard to forget. Spanning her 30-year career, this program provides an excellent introduction to an inspiring and extraordinary filmmaker. (Approx. 90 mins., 16mm and video)

Spend your Sunday afternoon with Kiss, Megadeath, Ozzy, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, and more in Spheeris’s chronicling of LA’s late-80s metal scene and all of its excesses—but especially the hair. (93 mins., DCP) The screening is followed by the third installment in the Decline trilogy, in which Spheeris documents LA’s “gutter punk” culture by interviewing teens who live on the street and in abandoned buildings while adhering to an extreme antiestablishment ethos. (86 mins., DCP)

CONTEMPORARY SCREEN Sundance Film Festival Short Films TUE, SEPT 1 | 7 pm The 2015 Sundance Institute Art House Project Shorts program includes a diverse mix of six films from the most recent Sundance Film Festival. Among the selections are the Don Hertzfeldt’s animated Short Film Grand Jury Prize winner World of Tomorrow and Storm hits jacket, the Jury Award Winner about a romance that stirs between two scientists as a storm arrives on the shores of Brittany. Visit wexarts.org for a complete lineup. (83 mins., DCP)

The Kindergarten Teacher (Nadav Lapid, 2014)

Court

Saint Laurent

(Chaitanya Tamhane, 2014)

(Bertrand Bonello, 2014)

FRI, SEPT 25 | 7 pm

FRI, OCT 9 | 8 pm

Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai film festivals, Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India that follows the corrupt trial of an elderly folk singer and grassroots organizer. What truly distinguishes Court, however, is a brilliant ensemble cast; an affecting mixture of comedy and tragedy; and Tamhane’s naturalist approach to his characters and to Indian society as a whole, rich with complexity and contradiction. (116 mins., DCP)

PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL START TIME Because Columbus audiences deserve a second chance to see it, we’ve brought back one of the year’s finest and most stylish films. Not your traditional biopic, Saint Laurent is a swirling, meticulously designed recreation of the textures of Yves Saint Laurent’s life and work. With an uncanny performance by Gaspard Ulliel as the legendary fashion designer, the film vibrantly captures the contradictions of the man and his times. (150 mins., DCP)

Horse Money

Taxi

(Pedro Costa, 2014)

(Jafar Panahi, 2015)

SUN, SEPT 20 | 1 pm

SAT, OCT 3 | 7 pm

Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s follow-up to his explosive Policeman (2011) is as smart, unsettling, and nuanced as any piece of storytelling that you’re likely to see all year. A Tel Aviv kindergarten teacher discovers that her student has a prodigious gift for poetry and she decides to protect his talent through increasingly extreme measures. Through shape-shifting ambiguities and keen filmmaking, the film remarkably shows us that, in an ugly world, beauty still has the power to drive us mad. (119 mins., DCP)

Horse Money is acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa’s first new narrative feature since his memorable visit to the Wex for a complete retrospective in 2008. Again featuring Ventura, the sad-eyed actor from his 2006 classic Colossal Youth, Horse Money slips in and out of time and space, seemingly inhabiting Ventura’s mind, and boasts striking Caravaggesque visuals. It’s both a powerful indictment of social and racial injustice in Portugal and a work of masterful artistry. (104 mins., DCP)

THU–FRI, OCT 15–16 | 7 pm Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Taxi reveals Jafar Panahi as one of the most vital filmmakers of our time. Despite being banned from filmmaking in his native Iran, Panahi has ingeniously found ways to continue producing films, and Taxi is no exception. Using a yellow cab as a mobile film studio, Panahi chauffeurs a diverse group of passengers around Tehran, recording their candidly expressed worldviews and cleverly capturing the spirit of Iranian society. (82 mins., DCP)

SPECIAL EVENTS

Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival TUE, OCT 27 | 7 pm Held each fall, the Ottawa International Animation Festival is the largest of its kind in North America. This traveling program includes highlights from the 2015 festival and displays the wide array of styles and subjects being explored by animators from around the world. Please note: this program includes content not appropriate for children. (approx. 75 mins., video) Please visit wexarts.org for a complete lineup of films.

THIS PAGE FROM TOP SAINT LAURENT Image courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics JOHN MATTHIAS BYRD 1933: FILMS FROM THE DISCOVERY LECTURE SERIES Richard E. Byrd’s Second Expedition to Antarctica, 1933–1935 Image courtesy of Richard E. Byrd Papers, The Ohio State University Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program

FILM/VIDEO TICKET INFO

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John Matthias: Automystifistical Plaice WED, SEPT 16 | 4 pm FREE Columbus-born poet, critic, and novelist John Matthias joins us to present his multimedia performance piece Automystifistical Plaice, based on his 2002 poem that explores a strange collaboration between screen siren Hedy Lamarr and avant-garde composer George Antheil that led to spread-spectrum telecommunications technology. Matthias will screen and discuss clips from a filmed performance of the piece, which features three player-readers backed by a barrage of audio-visual effects, while reading from the poem. Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of English and Film Studies Program.

Byrd 1933: Films from the Discovery Lecture Series

Introduced by Lisa Carter, Ohio State Libraries and Pamela I. Theodotou TUE, OCT 20 | 7 pm Culled from ten reels of 35mm film found in the papers of Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Byrd 1933 is a glorious cinematic record of the famed explorer’s expeditions in 1928–30 and 1933–35. Through extensive archival research in Byrd’s own papers, filmmaker Pamela I. Theodotou has painstakingly crafted a film that captures the expedition as a whole using the cataloged film clips, Byrd’s own voice, and the sounds of Antarctica originally recorded on the expedition. A panel including Theodotou and researchers from Ohio State’s Byrd Polar Research Center follows the screening. (90 mins., video) Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Byrd Polar Research Center.

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Jan Martens us premiere

Sweat Baby Sweat

THU–FRI, OCT 8–9 | 8 pm PERFORMANCE SPACE $17 members $20 general public $10 students

The Dog Days Are Over SUN, OCT 11 | 2 pm MON, OCT 12 | 8 pm

BLACK BOX ON MERSHON STAGE $17 members $20 general public $10 students

“Dismantles theatrical mechanics and the desire for entertainment, to reclaim the stage as a place of encounter between human and human.”—DE STANDAARD (BELGIUM) Flemish choreographer Jan Martens is fast earning a reputation in Europe as a talent to watch. His intriguing work thoroughly mines the tight parameters of his chosen movement material while subtly questioning the nature of performance and its complicit relationship with the audience. To offer a wider perspective of Martens’s distinctive work, we’re presenting two of his best-known pieces: the duet Sweat Baby Sweat, with its push-pull dynamic, and the literally breathtaking ensemble work The Dog Days Are Over. See them both here on the only US stop of their upcoming North American tour. In Sweat Baby Sweat, Martens takes as his point of departure the most clichéd theme in dance: the relationship between a man and a woman. He traces the arc of their lifetime together in this physically demanding and intimate examination of a couple who just can’t let each other go. Desire and resistance, love and longing, emotional strain and codependence are all at play in this highly charged, close-up view of two deeply intertwined lives. Martens’s inspiration for The Dog Days Are Over is drawn from a quote by photographer Philippe Halsman: “When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.” To reveal the person behind each dancer in this work, Martens has constructed a symphony of jumping so complex and difficult that the dancers will eventually fail to maintain its impossible rhythm. It is here where the performer’s mask falls—and also where Martens notably probes the audience’s position as witnesses, ultimately questioning our expectations of art and entertainment. ABOVE

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Geoff Sobelle The Object Lesson WED–FRI, OCT 28–30 | 8 pm SAT, OCT 31 | 2 & 8 pm BLACK BOX ON MERSHON STAGE $17 members $20 general public $10 students

“With [its] spectacular scenic installation … this cunning show finds universal common ground in one man’s field of detritus.”—NEW YORK TIMES

Linda Oh Sun Pictures SAT, OCT 3 | 8 pm PERFORMANCE SPACE $17 members $20 general public $13 students

Do you have what you need? Do you need what you have? As hilarious as it is poignantly heartbreaking, The Object Lesson is a magical and bittersweet comic rumination on the stuff we cling to and the junk we leave behind. With boxes stacked to the ceiling, physical theater artist and illusionist Geoff Sobelle transforms our stage into a storage attic of epic proportion. You’re free to roam and poke through the jumble of this immersive performance/installation that unpacks our lifelong relationship with everyday objects. What will you discover about the way we find, buy,

The Bad Plus Joshua Redman

Director: David Neumann Scenic Installation Designer: Steven Dufala This presentation is supported by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a program of Arts Midwest funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from Ohio Arts Council, the Crane Group, and General Mills Foundation.

THE OBJECT LESSON Photo: Max Gordon

Kneedelus:

A Live Collaboration between Kneebody + Daedelus

TUE, OCT 20 | 7 & 9 pm

Wex jazz fans first heard bassist Linda Oh here when she performed with Dave Douglas and Joe Lovano’s terrific Sound Prints band in fall 2013, more than holding her own in that all-star lineup. Oh now returns with her own quartet Sun Pictures, which features Ben Wendel on sax (who you can also catch with Kneedelus), top talent Matt Stevens on guitar, and Adam Cruz on drums. The intricate melodic pulse of Oh’s playing, a constant as she alternates between acoustic and electric bass, drives her original tunes with crowdwinning spirit, punch, and improvisational verve.

break, fix, trade, sell, steal, store, and eventually get buried under … a world of things? Don’t miss this Edinburgh Festival award-winning hit that’s earning acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic.

FRI, NOV 6 | 8 pm

PERFORMANCE SPACE $24 members $28 general public $16 students Outstanding jazz ensemble The Bad Plus has almost exclusively performed as a trio for its nearly 20-year existence. Although guests have occasionally joined the band in concert, this special collaboration with tenor sax star Joshua Redman is a bold step for a band that stresses its egalitarian identity as a seamless, tightly woven trio. But as rave reviews for their self-titled release on Nonesuch pour in, it’s clearly been a step that has further developed—and added new dimensions— to The Bad Plus’s already distinctive group sound.

PERFORMANCE SPACE $17 members $20 general public $13 students Adventuresome jazz quintet Kneebody is indicative of the next generation of talent emerging from the LA scene: absolutely fearless in embracing diverse musical trends and able to shape them into a seamless and satisfying cohesion. If you were among those who loved Mehliana—the electrifying duo of Brad Mehldau and Mark Guiliana—then Kneedelus will be right up your alley as LA-based artist Daedelus (Alfred Darlington) adds his driving electronica to the Kneebody’s fierce instrumental chops.

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Cincinnati Goddamn

and discussion with codirectors April Martin and Paul Hill, activist Iris Roley, and professor Rhonda Y. Williams

WED, SEPT 2 | 7 pm MERSHON AUDITORIUM FREE

WRITER’S TALK

Lyle Ashton Harris

TUE, SEPT 15 | 4 pm

THU, OCT 1 | 4 pm

FILM/VIDEO THEATER FREE Signing and reception follows

FILM/VIDEO THEATER FREE

Cosponsored by Ohio State’s University Libraries and Department of English.

ARTIST’S TALK

Sarah Oppenheimer WED, SEPT 16 | 5:30 pm GUI AUDITORIUM, KNOWLTON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FREE Get a preview of acclaimed artist Sarah Oppenheimer’s forthcoming site-specific installation for the Wex: a mechanical, rotating pivot system that will affect the way visitors perceive the thresholds, sightlines, and interwoven grids of the center’s architecture. The subject of upcoming solo exhibitions at Pérez Art Museum Miami and Mass MoCA, Oppenheimer is completing the project as part of a multiyear Wexner Center Artist Residency Award, working with students and faculty at Ohio State’s Knowlton School of Architecture and College of Engineering. Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Knowlton School of Architecture, as part of their Baumer Lecture Series.

THIS PAGE FROM TOP CINCINNATI GODDAMN Photo: Melvin Grier WEXLAB Bryan Moss leads a WexLab workshop Photo: Ada Matusiewicz SARAH OPPENHEIMER 33-D, 2014 Aluminum, glass and architecture Total dimensions variable Installation view: Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland, 2014 Photo: Serge Hasenböhler

After tonight’s screening, join us for a compelling discussion with the film’s codirectors, April Martin and Paul Hill, an editor at the center’s Film/Video Studio; Cincinnati native, businesswoman, and community activist Iris Roley; and Dr. Rhonda Y. Williams, professor of history and founder and director of the Social Justice Institute at Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University. Wexner Center Director’s Dialogues are made possible in part by a lead endowment gift from an anonymous donor. This year’s Director’s Dialogue is presented in partnership with Ohio State’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion and with additional support from Puffin Foundation West, Ltd. Thanks also to Ohio State’s Counseling and Consultation Service for their assistance with this event.

ARTIST’S TALK

William T. Vollmann

Join us in welcoming William T. Vollmann, a prolific and acclaimed writer whose fiction and nonfiction explore some of the most challenging issues of our times: war, imperialism, poverty, and prostitution, just to name a few. His novel Europe Central was the winner of the 2005 National Book Award for fiction, and his most recent work, The Dying Grass (2015), extends his Seven Dreams series about the encounters between Europeans and indigenous peoples in North America. Selections from the Vollmann literary and photographic archives at Ohio State are currently on view at Thompson Library.

COSPONSORED EVENTS

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, a new work supported by our Film/ Video Studio Program. Told through news reports, first-person accounts, and cinema verité footage, the film captures the personal trauma and civic unrest caused by the deaths of 15 African American men at the hands of Cincinnati police from 1995 to 2001 and traces both the protests and reform efforts that followed.

For more than two decades, Lyle Ashton Harris has cultivated a diverse artistic practice (ranging from photographic media and collage to installation and performance) that examines the impact of ethnicity, gender, and desire on contemporary society and culture. Known for his self-portraits and use of pop culture icons, Harris’s work teases and recalibrates viewers’ perceptions and expectations. Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of Art.

ARTIST’S TALK

Basia Irland TUE, OCT 13 | 4:30 pm FILM/VIDEO THEATER FREE Known for her “ice books” that incorporate native seeds embedded in floating, frozen tomes, Basia Irland frequently collaborates with community groups to realize her large-scale projects that focus on issues of sustainability in our waterways. Irland is the recipient of over forty grants and has worked most recently in Egypt, Ethiopia, India, and Nepal. Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Chadwick Arboretum, the Wilma H. Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park at Ohio State’s School of Environment and Natural Resources, and the Conversations on Morality, Politics, and Society (COMPAS) program of the Ohio State’s Center for Ethics and Human Values.

FOR TEENS

WexLab

Face the Strange/Distort the Figure with Bryan Moss SUN, OCT 25 | 11 am–4 pm FREE (registration required at tickets.wexarts.org)

Youth ages 13–18 are invited to this free, fun one-day workshop inspired by After Picasso: 80 Contemporary Artists. We’ll take a swift tour of the exhibition with Wex educator Jean Pitman and explore how Picasso used distortion and exaggeration to expand the way we see and depict the human form. Then team up with artist/educator Bryan Moss to create your own work in a wide variety of materials and scales, using photography, collage, and more. Pizza lunch and snacks are included. Seats for this studio workshop are limited so register now at tickets.wexarts.org. Questions? Please contact Jean Pitman at (614) 292-4614 or jpitman@wexarts.org.

ARTIST’S TALK

David Rothenberg WED, OCT 28 | 4:30 pm FILM/VIDEO THEATER FREE David Rothenberg has written and performed on the relationship between humanity and nature for many years. He is the author of numerous books on making music with animals, including Why Birds Sing (2006) and Thousand Mile Song (2010), and his latest album featuring live performances with nightingales, Berlin Bülbül (2015), was made with Korhan Erel. Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Humanities Institute, as part of the 2015–16 Conversations on Morality, Politics, and Society (COMPAS) discussion theme on Sustainability; the Department of Art’s Living Culture Initiative; the School of Music; the BioPresence project; and the Borror Laboratory of BioAcoustics.

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Capital Day 2015

Mindful Creativity

FRI, OCT 16 | 10 am–3 pm FREE (register at tickets.wexarts.org) Teachers, spend your Capital Day with the Wex and immerse yourself in the spirit and legacy of Pablo Picasso through our expansive fall exhibition, After Picasso: 80 Contemporary Artists. Visit wexarts.org for details on this PD experience.

THIS PAGE FROM TOP ART ON THE BRAIN Wexner Center Educator for Docent and Teacher Programs Tracie McCambridge leads an Art on the Brain tour Photo: Jo McCulty THE THEATER IS A BLANK PAGE SITI Company’s Akiko Aizawa performs in one of several sold-out shows Photo: Brooke LaValley

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FRI, SEPT 18 | 9 pm–12 am FRI, SEPT 18 | 9 pm–midnight WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS FREE Ohio State Students, join us to celebrate the opening of our fall exhibition, After Picasso: 80 Contemporary Artists, with free food, live performances by Ohio State musicians, great giveaways, and a free screening of Mad Max: Fury Road at 10 pm. The party is just one of several great perks the Wex has to offer: Ohio State students also enjoy discounts on amazing films and concerts, free admission to the galleries, discounts in our store, and of course art you won’t find anywhere else. Find out more at the party and online at wexarts.org.

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Art on the Brain THURSDAYS, OCT 1–NOV 19 | 5–6 pm WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS FREE (registration required) Let contemporary art be a vehicle for recuperation for you or a loved one. Art on the Brain guides individuals living with brain injuries (such as TBI, cancer, or stroke), along with their loved ones or caregivers, in exploring art interpretation across the disciplines. For details on this multivisit program or to register visit wexarts.org/brain or contact Tracie McCambridge at tmccambridge@wexarts.org or (614) 292-6982.

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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

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

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.

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.

Wexner Center Foundation

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.

Sylke Krell Manger of Production Ryan Shafer Editor