Media Overview

Media Overview L ate october 2011 THROUGH early march 2012

Table of Contents INSTITUTIONAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02–08 exhibitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09–15 Coming to the wex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16–17 On tour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 performing arts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19–24 FILM/VIDEO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25–27 Store. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 café | heirloom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Institutional | STAR Partnership

February 26, 2012

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Erin Moriarty

Photo courtesy of carriefisher.com

Director’s dialogue

February 29, 2012

Image courtesy of Dada Films

Q&A | Liza Johnson: Ohio roots have helped filmmaker of ‘Return’ READ THE FULL PIECE ONLINE

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February 29, 2012

Wexner Center to host film, panel about female war veterans READ THE FULL PIECE ONLINE

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WOSU: All Sides with Ann Fisher

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Unique challenges facing America’s women veterans Panel featuring filmmaker Liza Johnson and other guests

March 12, 2012

Meredith Vieira on her film production company, new movie Former TODAY host Meredith Vieira and writer/ director Liza Johnson discuss their new film “Return,” which addresses the problems women veterans face when returning to their home lives after serving in active duty.

A selection of Tweets…

Institutional | New education facility

Wexner education facility to take wing Within a few years, young people will find much more to do and learn at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

In its first expansion since its founding in 1989, the Ohio State University institution plans an education facility next to the arts center at 27 W. 17th Ave.—a below-ground space occupied for now by the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

The cartoon library is expected to move by the fall of 2013 into a larger and more prominent space in Sullivant Hall, a campus building being renovated.

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The new education wing—to be named later—is to have more than 7,200 square feet and include classrooms, offices, art studios, computer labs, meeting and storage space, a gallery, a library and a learning lab for teenagers. And, as part of what is becoming a growing priority for the Wexner Center, after-school programs and activities for teens will be offered.

The cost of the project is estimated at $2.5 million to $3 million, with an initial grant of $500,000 already secured from the American Electric Power

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Foundation. The rest of the money is expected to be raised during the next 18 months through donations from individuals, corporations and foundations, center Director Sherri Geldin said.

A group of “leading thinkers in design and art education,” she said, will be asked to “imagine what kind of habitat is conducive to learning.”

Geldin will join Shelly Casto, director of education at the center, in meeting today for the first in a series of periodic sessions with a group of national leaders in design and education.

“We essentially have a blank slate, but we don’t simply want to replicate the educational spaces of other institutions,” Geldin said. “We aim to create a truly innovative habitat for discovery and learning—one that complements but doesn’t duplicate other such resources in Columbus.”

March 8, 2012

Wexner Center Announces Education Center Expansion

Columbus Monthly

March 2012

Arts Beat: The Wexner Center expands READ THE FULL PIECEs ONLINE

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@topiarypark Get inspired by the Arts - Visit the Wexner Center this winter!

Photo © Brad Feinknopf

March 4, 2012

Institutional Residency Video January 31, 2012 Stills from the Wexner Center for the Arts Residency award video

When the Wex released its residency video celebrating 20 years of the Artist Residency Award, it was picked up by various blogs and websites, including the regional arthopper.com and the national livedesignonline.com, and tweeted and retweeted.

D Magazine/FrontRow: A Daily Review of the Dallas Arts December 12, 2011

The Visual Arts in 2011: Giving Thanks and a Wish List tours, these institutions do a lot to set the agenda

supporting ambitious, challenging contemporary art

for contemporary art beyond their home towns….

that might be too edgy and non-commercial for more

[The Wexner] was responsible for the shows of Mark

populist museums, on a grander scale than the galleries

Bradford and Luc Tuymans that toured nationally

can do. Archetypal examples would be the Wexner

through several cities including Dallas. Their catalogs,

Center at Ohio State, the Renaissance Society at the

meanwhile, landed in thousands of libraries and

University of Chicago, or the Blaffer Art Museum at the

bookstores. That’s the kind of generative impact that

University of Houston. With the resources to publish

just a handful of institutions can have on the larger

full-scale scholarly catalogs and support multi-city

art world.”

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February 12, 2012

“The Wexner Center, more than any other cultural institution, has put the city on the map in international arts, cinema and performance circles.”

@lisaanfang got 2 see don hertzfeldt & his new short, it’s such a beautiful day, @wexarts last nt. 3rd in trilogy heading 2 sundance 2012. q&a was cool. FEB 22

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“In the U.S., university museums are crucial in

Institutional

February 8, 2012

“…the thing about the Wexner Center’s movies is that I don’t have to look into it at all. I know that when I go there, even if I don’t know anything about the movies that they’re showing, they will always lead to great conversation afterward.”

Photo by Jodi Miller

Best date you’ve had in Columbus: Jeni Britton Bauer

February 6, 2012

America’s 50 top philanthropists include 12 arts donors This piece mentions Les and Abigail Wexner’s gift to Ohio State, with an arts component “partly to fund the school’s Wexner Center for the Arts.”

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Institutional | Ticketing

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November 30, 2011

Show & Tell: Entertainment news Wexner alters ticketing

December 1, 2011

Wexner Center Announces Upcoming Season, New Ticketing System

The Wexner Center for the Arts will switch to a new ticketing system on Thursday.

The website tickets.wexarts.org will allow lower fees, greater convenience in online purchasing and the ability to print tickets at home, a spokesman said. Also, starting Thursday, tickets for Wexner Center events—except some off-site events—will no longer be sold via Ticketmaster.

Tickets will continue to be sold by phone. Call 614-292-3535.

@Natasha64 @wexarts #Inni was mesmerizing... an emotionally saturated intimate experience with Sigur Ros. Thank you for bringing it to Ohio! DEC 1

Institutional

December 4, 2011

Wexner lineup has worldly feel

Winter Arts Preview 2012 • Miguel Zenón (coming April 19) was chosen by NPR as best jazz album of 2011 • Ambrose Akinmusire (performing here May 3) landed at the top of the New York Times list for best release—with Zenón also making that list.

November 5, 2011

Casual settings enhance joys of delving into arts, sciences The Wexner Center for the Arts is set to host a GenWex affair for young professionals on Nov. 30 called “Drink It In,” consisting of a guided tour through two environmentally themed exhibits, plus a tasting of organic wines.

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@stacialeigh Saw the movie Chico and Rita at @wexarts_film tonight. Loved, loved, loved it! JAN 28

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Education | genwex

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Institutional Columbus Monthly January 2012 Wexner Center Anniversary Party

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@IttyBittyArtist Dear @wexarts, I love you. No--seriously. I do. Thanks for planning on bringing Don Hertzfelt to town. [xoxo] Best Christmas Present Ever. DEC 14

fall Exhibitions

October 25, 2011

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The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) November 3, 2011 Road Trip | Otherworldly art in Ohio “Eye-popping exhibit”—on the Alexis Rockman show

Columbus Underground (Louisville, KY) November 7, 2011 Unnatural History: Alexis Rockman at the Wexner Center “Given the subject matter, it’s easy to view Rockman’s retrospective at the Wexner Center as a challenge to look closely at the impact of our increasingly industrialized culture and consider a change…. And while the story and subject matter might inform our initial response to Rockman’s work, our job of looking doesn’t end there. These are paintings after all, and very good ones. They’re elegant, informed, sophisticated....”

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@eevensen That’s always my experience, too. @ModDomTweets I had to tear myself away from the Wexner Center Book Store @wexarts DEC 13

fall Exhibitions

November 2011

Canadian online publication devoted to political art and cultural policy

Engaged devotion and care: The terrariums of Paula Hayes (interview) READ THE FULL PIECE ONLINE

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Gallerist NY November 2011 House and Garden: Paula Hayes Brings the Tropics to Midtown The Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, is currently hosting a solo exhibition, where a team of university students cares for the plants.

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November 11, 2011

Paula Hayes at the Wexner Center – video piece

@AAFdesign Highly recommended! RT @ohiostate: Hear architect Elizabeth Diller tonight at @wexarts. Free admission. ow.ly/7AjpV NOV 21

fall Exhibitions

December 15, 2011

“Things We Love” column

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3 to Try: Events off the beaten path Notes Hundley exhibition as a “visual bacchanal”

December 31, 2011

(new online journal covering the greater Lake Erie region) “The Elliott Hundley exhibition makes for very compelling looking where many bits of dollar-store materials and found objects mix and coalesce with photographs of family and friends of the artist playing the roles of characters from the Euripides play The Bacchae.”

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@martimhta Going to @wexarts’s new exhibition! #excitingstuff FEB 2

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(Weekender) December 8, 2011

winter Exhibitions

January 6, 2012

Whitney and Storm to Share a David Smith “The sculpture will be included in the current exhibition when it travels to the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. But after the exhibition closes, on April 15, Cubi XXI will return to Storm King, where it will be on view until the Whitney’s new building opens in the meatpacking district of Manhattan in 2015.”

January 22, 2012

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@megan888 Just had an awesomely yummy chipotle grilled chicken sandwich @HeirloomCafe @wexarts.

Seriously, you need to eat there already! JAN 27

winter Exhibitions

January 26, 2012

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A Great American Sculptor’s Show Visits Columbus “The geometric shapes and hard angles of Smith’s work look terrific in the Wexner’s Peter Eisenman-designed galleries.... Definitely worth a visit to the Wexner.” –Steve Rosen

@ohiofoodlovers Man I >3 Columbus. Saw so many of my favorite people at the @wexarts reception tonight. JAN 27

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(Cincinnati) February 23, 2012

winter Exhibitions

February 23, 2012

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@rsanford614 Mariano Pensotti The Past is a Grotesque Animal @wexarts was mesmerizing.  JAN 20

winter Exhibitions

February 23, 2012

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@Jessica_McKean @wexarts Winter Exhibit is phenomenal! A fantastic opening night. JAN 28

COMING TO THE WEX

(cover story)

november 2011

Touching from a distance Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone 1955–1972 Coming to the Wex in Spring 2012

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@CCADedu Congrats to @wexarts for their best of show award! NOV 17

COMING TO THE WEX

october 14, 2011

Facture & Fidelity Coming to the Wex in 2013

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“Dear Painter…”

Chief Curator of Exhibitions Christopher Bedford interviews four painters about abstraction in contemporary painting in this UK-based contemporary magazine, as a precursor to our fall 2013 exhibition, Facture and Fidelity.

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@CaseyGrev @wexarts Got my Inni tix yesterday. Soo excited! NOV 23

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March 2012 Issue

WEX EXHIBITIONS ON TOUR Mark Bradford This exhibition was organized by and premiered at the Wexner Center in 2010, continues its massive tour on the west coast, showing at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this winter. It has been to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Dallas Museum of Art. From the critics: “Light and fleet....”—New York Times “Gorgeous, thick, meditative, relevant....”—Huffington Post “Quietly radiates meanings, emotions, and no end of visual satisfactions....”—Boston Globe On the microsite traveling with the show: “That’s the kind of generative impact that just a handful of institutions can have on the larger art world.”—Dallas’s D Magazine

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“And impressive solo show….Bradford shows that in the new century lineages such as painting and installation thrive not by mimicking their ancestry, but by reanimating it.”

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—San Francisco Chronicle

Elliott Hundley: The Bacchae This exhibition, also organized by the Wex and on view here in the fall, is currently at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.

From the critics: “Their complexity practically defies description, and the range of materials is remarkable.”—Dallas’s D Magazine “A veritable bacchanalia of textures and found objects.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram “Ours is an age of overstimulation, of sensory overload. That makes Los Angeles artist Elliott Hundley thoroughly au courant, even when interpreting a fifthcentury B.C. tragedy.” —Dallas Morning News

@velk Went and saw ‘A Place in Berlin’ tonight at @wexarts. Just one of three screenings in the US. JAN 17

PERFORMING ARTS | Jérôme Bel

October 27, 2011

Preview: Cédric Andrieux at the Lincoln Theatre In nearly 22 years of Wexner Center presentations, few have been as simple or as memorable as JérÔme Bel’s “The Show Must Go On” in March 2005.

Next week Bel and company return to Columbus to present the most recent entry in a series of works conceived and directed by Bel. Each of the works focuses on an individual dancer to illuminate dance from the inside out.

(Review) November 2, 2011

Solo performer empowers work of choreographer

“A recent work by the noted French choreographer JerÔme Bel a Wexner Center for the Arts’ dance event has been presented there.…The beautiful hall made an interesting backdrop for a solo artist. Neither the stage nor the hall is large, so the space did not overwhelm this single performer.”—Barbara Zuck

PERFORMING ARTS | Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba (Review by John Petric) November 23, 2011

MAJOR MINOR: Bassekou Kouyate, Fitz and the Tantrums Image courtesy of Thomas Dorn

Band weaves its Mali-style magic The five greatest musical experiences of my life are, in chronological order....

5) Hearing a fellow from Mali named Bassekou Kouyate and his band, Ngoni ba, playing their ancient and traditional stringed lutes at the Wexner Performance Space Friday night.

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@ch_williamson Regrets, I’ve had a few... namely, missing last’s night screening of HOUSE OF PLEASURES at @wexarts. What a stupid mistake! FEB 3

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Image © Herman Sorgeloos Pictured: Dancer Cédric Andrieux

was performed at the Lincoln Theatre last night, the first time

PERFORMING ARTS | Pan Pan

November 17, 2011

Take one classic Shakespearean tragedy; sprinkle in a live audition, some Irish wit, audience participation and a bit with a dog. Now shake.

The result is The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane—theater company Pan Pan’s award-winning deconstruction of “Hamlet,” which will be presented this week at the Wexner Center.

Photo: Ros Kavanagh

Fresh off performances in the Big Apple last week, Ireland’s inventive Pan Pan ensemble is making its second trip to Columbus after a successful 2008 visit with “Oedipus Loves You.”—Columbus Alive

(Weekender) November 17, 2011

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Audience plays key role in who’s who of Irish Hamlet

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November 16, 2011

Irish troupe invites OSU audiences to give Shakespeare’s Hamlet a new shake

November 17, 2011

Hamlet wannabes kick off ‘Year of Shakespeare’

WOSU radio November 19, 2011 Audio review of Pan Pan

@UWeekly Alexis Rockman’s: A Fable for Tomorrow exhibition @wexarts is sure to take your breath away. Check it out from 11am-6pm today! NOV 29

PERFORMING ARTS | Jazz

February 29, 2012

Wexner jazz series to set a cozy scene Jazz lovers value intimate settings, artist diversity and the chance to discover something new.

Key among the results, according to the Ohio State University center, was fans’ desired atmosphere: cozy, casual and close to the onstage action.

“It reinforced how important the feel for the room is—to get that kind of connection to this particular art form,” said Chuck Helm, the center’s director of performing arts and a research partner facility in the audience study.

The center, Helm said, typically hosts about five jazz artists a year using the existing club-inspired seating and will use feedback from the series to help guide programming.

“Each show presents opportunities to bring new people into the room,” he said.

The Donny McCaslin Group on Thursday kicked off the concerts.

The remaining offerings, all in the Wexner performance space unless noted: • Saturday: the collaborative trio known as Tirtha— featuring jazz pianist Vijay Iyer, guitarist Prasanna

Ambrose Akinmusire

and tabla player Nitin Mitta — which fuses classically based Indian stylings with jazz.

• March 31, Drake Center’s Thurber Theatre, 1849 Cannon Dr.: filmmaker Bill Morrison, jazz guitarist Bill Frisell and a quartet focusing on the 1927 Mississippi River flood.

• April 19: Puerto Rican progressive jazz saxophonist, Grammy nominee and MacArthur “ genius grant” recipient Miguel Zenon and his quartet.

• May 3: the Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet, whose trumpeter won the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz competition.

• May 12: the indie-scene foursome Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey of Tulsa, Okla., with a multimedia history lesson on the city’s 1921 race riots—with a horn section provided by OSU students.

• June 5: Argentine composer-pianist Guillermo Klein, leader of the 11-piece outfit Los Guachos, with futuristic folklore melded with jazz sounds.

Tickets for all shows cost $18, or $15 for members.

Call 614-292-3535 or visit www.wexarts. org.

@rachelbaransi @wexarts @ashleyapplepie and i were sooooo inspired. what a beautiful experience. thank you. “you can’t play this piano!” :) NOV 30

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To that end, the center will have seven jazz shows during a five-month period, hosting six of them with a cabaret-style setup in the building’s 200-capacity performance space with an on-site bar (the venue doesn’t offer alcohol at rock shows).

Photo courtesy of the artist

That’s what the Wexner Center for the Arts learned from an extensive Jazz Arts Group nationwide survey in October that detailed what the genre’s listeners want most when seeking a live show.

Performing Arts | The Builders Association

October 5, 2011

Multimedia fanfare puts a face on foreclosure

Eve Marie Wendzicki is a smart, capable, accomplished woman. Now a graduate assistant enrolled in Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business in the MBA program, with an expected graduation next June, she’s poised to launch into a successful career.

Not so very long ago, however, her life looked quite a bit more bleak.

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“I lost my job in 2009 and found myself on the job market unexpectedly, a single woman who owned a home bought with no money down,” Wendzicki recalled, sitting on a shaded bench in the courtyard adjacent to Fisher Hall…..

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….Wendzicki’s story might well have remained untold — she’s not someone who tends to trumpet her own misfortune—if it weren’t for a workshop

Photo: dbox

Wex Collaboration, HOUSE/DIVIDED, Brings Home the Housing Crisis

held last October, during which members of New York theater group the Builders Association came to campus seeking input for a new multimedia production they were developing about the foreclosure crisis in America. ....“They had two sessions at the business school, said they wanted to know if we had any insights into what happened and how this came to be, and if we knew anybody going through it,” Wendzicki said.

She grinned. “I said, ‘Well, I’m going through it!’”

Columbus Underground October 7, 2011 “It’s the local connection that helps to make House/Divided such a compelling work. Its connection to the campus area, its affiliation with the Creative Campus initiative, and the partnerships developed across a wide range of disciplines make this production something that’s simultaneously epic and intimate. It’s art that connects with the community; acting as a mirror and asking if we like what we see.”—Jeff Regensburger, Columbus Underground

Tony Dallas blog “I find satisfaction in this fusion of art forms that seems to take theatre out of its staid habit into something more challenging—an artistic synthesis that feels deliberately rooted in the present.”

@rsanford614 Off work right on time, Mad Mex happy hour, Don Hertzfeldt at @wexarts, Charles Bradley at Skully’s. Feb 22

Performing Arts | The Builders Association Ohio State Alumni Magazine November/December 2011

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@Claireja So glad we caught the last day of the Paula Hayes exhibit @wexarts It did good things for my brain. wexarts.org/ex/?eventid=58… DEC 31

Performing Arts | The Builders Association

oCtober 6, 2011

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@ndokuley If you are in Columbus, PLEASE go to this RT @ColumbusAlive Staff Pick: Sigur Ros concert film at @wexarts tonight: bit.ly/unlkIw NOV 30

Film/Video | The Interrupters

November 6, 2011

Teenagers asked for solutions to violence (Metro section cover) An award-winning documentary that details the work of “violence interrupters” on Chicago streets will premiere on Wednesday in Columbus to what organizers hope will be a rapt audience of highschool students from across the city.

After the credits roll at the Wexner Center for the Arts’ screening, the 440 students will start their homework — devising school-specific plans to strengthen their community and prevent violence using lessons learned from the film.

The film The Interrupters follows three former gang members who crusade against street violence in their Chicago neighborhoods. They are part of CeaseFire, a Chicago-based organization designed to reduce shootings and killings...

“We want a combination of all those, because all of them are leaders and they have influence with their peers,” Superintendent Gene Harris said.

When the movie ends, they will break into groups to brainstorm.

“They are going to have independent conversations after the film, strategizing about violence prevention in their own schools,” said Shelly Casto,

director of education at the Wexner Center. Those ideas could include school-based public-information blitzes or stronger links to existing social programs.

School counselors and community leaders will steer the discussions, but the students must devise their own responses in the coming weeks.

Sponsors are covering costs of busing and lunch, and the community leaders are volunteering their time, Casto said.

Wilkinson said preparing for the event has forged better ties between her Youth Violence Prevention Advisory Board and the school district. She is optimistic that the film’s arrival in Columbus will spark a broader discussion about the need for violence prevention in a city that has seen 80 homicides this year.

“This was a nice opportunity to line up some strategies and think big picture,” she said.

@wexarts Testify RT @HeirloomCafe: Love is in the air! No wait, that’s the scent of all the delicious food cooking in the Heirloom kitchen. Yum! FEB 14

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...Each high school was asked to choose 20 sophomores and juniors to attend the screening. They aren’t all on student council or future valedictorians but were chosen because the student body views them as leaders in some way.

Image courtesy of Cinema Guild

Film/Video | The Interrupters

November 2, 2011

Staff Pick: “The Interrupters”

Donewaiting web site October 27, 2011 “The Wexner Center screens a slew of impressive films every year that often fly under the radar.”

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December 2, 2011

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Rare MLB Footage Still Needs to Be Found: Fan Take Just like the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., anyone can visit the library at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. The research-based archive includes thousands of hours of video and audio footage. The collection is even automated and searchable through the ABNER search engine.

Films owned by the Hall of Fame have been shown at theaters around the United States. The Wexner Center showed off some rare footage to celebrate the opening of the 2009 baseball season which culminated in highlights of the 1954 World Series.

@Child_Labor Bassekou Kouyate is killing it at @wexarts right now. Unreal. Energy of the crowd is at 11. NOV 18

Film/Video | zoom | cinema latino

(Weekender) December 2, 2011

Critters dominate slate of children’s cinema

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(Weekender) January 5, 2012

Spanish-language films attract Columbus audiences

Movies from seven countries are on the schedule—including works of animation, comedy, documentary, drama and science fiction. Most are in Spanish with English subtitles.

Image courtesy of gKids

For the sixth year, the Wexner Center for the Arts will examine films either from or set in Latin American countries with its ‘Cinema Latino’ series....

Chico & Rita (part of Cinema Latino)

@PosterFrameDepo @house_wine @wexarts Wine & Art? What’s better than that?! :-) NOV 28

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Store | Taschen partnership

Publishers Weekly November 2, 2011 Taschen Gets Branding When the Art Institute of Chicago opened a Taschen “shop within a shop” at its Museum Shop at the beginning of June, it was not only the first time that a museum store created a special section just for books from the German art, architecture, and design publisher, but it also marked the launch of a Taschen branding effort at bookstores in North America. Although The Strand in New York City was the first to have a Taschen area in the U.S., it added a Taschen mezzanine in 2004, the publisher’s new efforts more closely resemble those of art book publisher Assouline or sustainable living

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press Chelsea Green. In exchange for devoting a set amount of space to displaying Taschen titles along with the Taschen logo and signage, bookstores are given a financial incentive in an effort to boost sales for both. While many presses are using the sections to test consignment, Taschen’s books continue to be sold nonreturnable. Still, for a growing number of stores it’s worth it.

Earlier this month Taschen added a second museum store, the Wexner Art Center in Columbus, Ohio, and has one more museum store pending.

Publishers Weekly November 16, 2011 Taschen to Pop Up in New York

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Taschen’s continuing to brand its line of illustrated books this season, first with branded sections in museum stores like the Chicago Institute of Art and the Wexner Art Center in Columbus, Ohio, now

with a pop-up bookstore at 998 Madison Avenue in New York City that is slated to open at the end of the month.

November 21, 2011

Thanksgiving has new tradition: shopping Mini fun For the more artistically inclined gift giver, the Wexner Center Store in Ohio State University’s Wexner Center for the Arts has opened a “store within a store.”

The “mini-store” features books from the Taschen publishing house, which specializes in photo-laden

books on art, architecture, design and film, as well as an expansion of the Wexner Center Store’s book inventory.

The Wexner site is Taschen’s second museum store; the first opened at the Art Institute of Chicago earlier this year.

@aarkae Finnish Director Aki Kaurismäki’s French movie ‘Le Havre’ is the antithesis of Hollywood junk. Says a lot with very little. @Wexarts JAN 23

Café | Heirloom

Winter 2011

Columbus Underground December 29, 2011 2011 in Review: Dining “The Wexner Center did something brilliant when it turned

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its café over to John Skaggs’ Heirloom.”

December 25, 2011

December 21, 2011

Year in Review/Best in the Arts 2011

Year in Review

• Pipilotti Rist: The Tender Room (exhibition)

• Elliott Hundley: The Bacchae (exhibition)

• Elliott Hundley: The Bacchae (exhibition) • Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow (exhibition)

Theater: Musicals Helped to Lift Spirits (Year in Review, Best shows)

• Pan Pan: The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane (theater)

Let Me Down Easy (theater)

• Cédric Andrieux (dance)

Fine Footwork Kept Audiences on Their Toes (Year in Review)

Columbus Underground December 28, 2011

Cédric Andrieux (dance)

Wexner Center voted #2 on the Columbus Underground Reader Poll for “Best Arts & Cultural Organization.” @Camicoquin @wexarts I also enjoyed the walk-in exhibit with the moths and the bassinet - corn husk walls, maybe? You have great exhibits NOV 23

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Year in review

200 Columbus: The Official Bicentennial Guide January 2012

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@alishaisgo Want this day! RT @wexarts: Make it a Wex Friday: do shopping at @WexStore, see galleries (11am) & watch classic Three Stooges shorts (1pm). NOV 25

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