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  Wexner Center for the Arts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wexner Center for the Arts is a contemporary art gallery and "research laboratory" for the arts at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
The Wexner Center opened in November of 1989, named in honor of the father of Limited Brands founder Leslie Wexner, who was a major donor to the Center.
Though most of the exhibitions in the Wexner Center are only up for a limited time, it is home to a permanent outdoor installation designed by Maya Lin for the Center, entitled Groundswell, which is composed of rolling mounds of broken glass.
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 Columbus, Ohio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Located near the geographic center of the state, Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County, though parts of the city also extend into Delaware and Fairfield counties.
Wexner Center for the Arts, a contemporary art gallery and research facility located on the OSU campus, and the Ohio State University Athletics Hall of Fame, located in the Jerome Schottenstein Center (home of the OSU basketball and men's ice hockey teams).
The convention center was designed by famed architect Peter Eisenman, who also designed the renowned Wexner Center, also located in Columbus at the campus of The Ohio State University.
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Prior to joining the Wexner Center, Ise' was assistant curator of the UCLA Hammer Museum, where she organized major solo presentations of Tomoko Takahashi and Frances Stark, and co-organized the acclaimed group exhibitions International Paper and Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles.
Wexner Center exhibitions are being held at the Wexner Center Galleries at The Belmont Building while the galleries at the Wexner Center’s Ohio State location undergo renovation.
The Wexner Center for the Arts is The Ohio State University’s multidisciplinary, international laboratory for the exploration and advancement of contemporary art.
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 Wexner Center for the Arts by Peter Eisenman and Richard Trott
The Wexner is named after donor Leslie H. Wexner, founder of the Limited, Inc. retail chain, a man preternaturally active in the city’s philanthropic affairs.
The Wexner is also blessed with a site-specific work by Maya Lin, "Groundswell," and terrific landscaped gardens, by landscape architect Laurie Olin, to the north and west of the building.
The Wexner Center presents visual arts exhibitions, music and dance concerts, performances, films, videos, and mixed-media projects, as well as educational programs for audiences of all ages.
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 Leslie H. Wexner 1937— - THE FAMILY BUSINESS, MASTER OF THE MALLS
Wexner used the popularity of malls to fuel the growth of The Limited, as he believed that the success of a store was dependent more upon location than advertising.
Wexner bought the company in 1986 when it was a sporting goods store on the verge of bankruptcy and began reversing its fortunes by selling conservative men's wear.
Wexner responded to employee resistance by taking more interest in personnel decisions and making sure that he met with all of the new executive-level hires.
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 Wexner Center | Visions of America
The exhibition is presented by the Wexner Center with support from Susan M. Tanenbaum, AT&T, and the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation.
WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS The Wexner Center for the Arts is The Ohio State University's multidisciplinary, international laboratory for the exploration and advancement of contemporary art.
In its programs, the Wexner Center balances a commitment to experimentation with a commitment to traditions of innovation and affirms the university's mission of education, research, and community service.
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 Wexner Center for the Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In November 1989, the Wexner Center for the Arts opened at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
The Wexner Center for the Arts is an art gallery, which emphasizes contemporary and performing art.
The gallery was named in honor of Leslie Wexner, the head of the Limited Brands and a major financial donor to the Wexner Center.
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 the wexner foundation
Wexner Heritage Program - a two-year program educating Jewish volunteer leaders in the history, thought, traditions and contemporary challenges of the Jewish people.
Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program - encouraging promising candidates to successfully meet the challenges of professional Jewish leadership in the North American Jewish community.
Wexner Israel Fellowship Program - providing Israel's next generation of public leaders with advanced training in public management and leadership development in a unique partnership between The Wexner Foundation and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
www.wexner.org   (181 words)

  
 Wexner Mershon Center Tickets - Wexner Mershon Center Seating Chart - Columbus Ticket Broker
The price listed for Wexner Mershon Center tickets is the total price per ticket and may be over the printed price on the ticket.
Wexner Mershon Center seats are together, side by side, unless otherwise noted.
Actual Wexner Mershon Center seat numbers are withheld for the privacy of both buyer and seller.
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 Artcom Museums Tour: Wexner Center For The Arts - Ohio State University
The Wexner Center for the Arts is a multidisciplinary contemporary arts center with a diverse array of programs in the visual, performing and media arts.
The Wexner Center is located on North High Street at the corner of 15th Avenue on the campus of The Ohio State University.
The Wexner Center is on North High Street at 15th Avenue.
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 Wexner Center for the Arts - Columbus, OH, 43210 - Citysearch
Since opening in 1989, the Wexner Center has been a hub for groundbreaking artists and their work.
The exhibitions, film and video screenings and performing arts series are filled with modern masters as well as younger artists--what they all bear in common is a tendency to push the envelope in their respective mediums.
Past exhibitions at the Wexner include the wild costume and set designs of Julie Taymor.
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 E-Flux : Vanishing Point - (2005-05-16)
Claudine Isé joined the Wexner Center as associate curator of exhibitions in February 2004.
Isé curated Particle Theory, a contemporary sculpture exhibition, for the Wexner Center in winter of that year.
Prior to joining the Wexner Center, Isé was assistant curator of the UCLA Hammer Museum, where she organized major solo presentations of Tomoko Takahashi and Frances Stark, and co-organized the acclaimed group exhibitions International Paper and Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles.
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 Official Ticketmaster site. Wexner Center Film Video Theater Columbus, OH tickets . Directions, seating chart, events.
The Wexner Center for the Arts is located on the west side of High St. at 15th Ave.
Enter the Wexner Center Film/Video Theater through the main entrances to the Wexner Center, which face High Street and the Wexner Center Plaza on the east and College Rd. on the west.
The College Road (west) entrance to the Wexner Center is ramp and wheelchair accessible.
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 Wexner Center - Peter Eisenman - Great Buildings Online
The crossing of these two 'found' axes is not simply a route but an event, literally a 'center' for the visual arts, a circulation route through which people must pass on the way to and from other activities.
Thus, the primary symbolization of a visual arts center, which is traditionally that of a shelter of art, is not figured in this case.
We appreciate your suggestions for links about Wexner Center.
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 Wexner Center for the Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Wexner Center is the last stop on this exhibition's tour, which began at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, then traveled to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta; the Amon Carter Museum and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and, most recently, to the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester.
The Wexner Center, a national laboratory for the arts, is a contemporary arts center dedicated to the visual, performing, and media arts with a strong commitment to the creation of new work.
Wheelchair access to the Wexner Center is available on the west side of the building, through the College Avenue entrance.
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 Wexner Center for the Arts: Film/Video: Film/Video Index
The Wexner Center's Art & Technology facility is a state-of-the-art video studio and editing suite used by nationally distinguished artists and producers working in residence.
The Wexner Center offers introductory, intermediate, and advanced courses as an official Avid education center.
Wexner Center members save on film tickets and enjoy member-only film screenings.
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 Images of Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1989, by Peter Eisenman.
Images of Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1989, by Peter Eisenman.
Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, South Facade, The Ohio State University--page 1 (of four pages)
Note please: these images were photographed at two different times; some were taken in the late fall of 1989 at the opening of the Wexner Center--on a cold, blustery, overcast day.
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 NPN » Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University
NPN » Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University
Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University
The Wexner Center for the Arts is a multidisciplinary complex at The Ohio State University, dedicated to the contemporary arts and their audiences.
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 ~ SHINY ~ a Dazzling Exhibition at Wexner Center for the Arts | Art Knowledge News
Organized by the Wexner Center, it will be on view September 16–December 31, 2006.
Helen Molesworth joined the Wexner Center as chief curator of exhibitions in November 2002.
Prior to joining the Wexner Center, she served as curator of contemporary art at The Baltimore Museum of Art, and her writings have appeared in Art Journal, Frieze, and October.
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 The Vexner Center | Metropolis Magazine | July 2001
Read the Wexner Center's request for proposal at www.fpd.ohio-state.edu/wexner_rfp.htm and then take a tour of the center at www.wexarts.org/ctr/gen/arch.shtml.
The array of artfully deployed materials--glass, steel, granite, wood, plaster paneling--on the interior of the center, which was Eisenman's first public commission, makes renovation a tricky process.
The Wexner's busy interior spaces, with their floating beams and mix of materials, have long been a challenge to curators.
www.metropolismag.com /html/content_0701/ob/ob09.html   (589 words)

  
 "Extreme Textiles" opens at the Wexner Center
But as a Wexner Center exhibit opening this week proves, they're also art.
Megan Cavanaugh Novak, a Wexner Center curatorial assistant, said the exhibit focuses on “the way textiles are used in technology, how they work in these extreme ways." The textiles are used in medicine, engineering, architecture, transportation, aeronautics, and sports.
While you're at the Wexner Center this spring, you can check out two other exhibits on display: Diptych (paired images) and films by William Kentridge.
www.osu.edu /features/2006/textiles   (193 words)

  
 As Painting: Division and Displacement - Wexner Center for the Arts - Absolutearts.com
On view May 12—August 12, 2001 in the Wexner Center, the exhibition features 110 works by 26 artists from the United States, France, and Germany from the mid-1960s to the present, including three newly commissioned pieces and many works never before exhibited in the United States.
Organized by the Wexner Center and guest curated by OSU professors Philip Armstrong (Division of Comparative Studies), Laura Lisbon (Department of Art), and Stephen Melville (Department of History of Art), the wide-ranging exhibition examines the many artistic impulses that can be interpreted as painting.
Says Wexner Center Director Sherri Geldin, As Painting ultimately flourishes in the keenly honed selection and presentation of works whose seeming heterogeneity might at first perplex those seeking customary connections.
www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2001/05/12/28548.html   (739 words)

  
 Resource Interactive
Columbus, OH — November 17, 2005 — The Wexner Center for the Arts launched the new Resource Interactive-designed web site as part of its Wex Wide Open festivities, celebrating the long-awaited reopening of the venue after an extensive three-year renovation.
Further promoting the center's commitment to the best of contemporary visual, performing, and film arts the world over, the new web site brings Wexner Center exhibitions and events to the forefront, highlighting its global programming while making the experience more accessible to visitors.
Resource Interactive's dramatic site redesign reflects and supports the Wexner Center's overall efforts to be more accessible and user-friendly for its visitors, whether online or in person.
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 Resource Interactive
The Ohio State University's Wexner Center for the Arts recently launched a dynamic new version of its online home, www.wexarts.org.
Developed by Ten/Resource, the site reflects the architectural spirit of the Center and allows visitors to easily browse the extraordinary range of exhibitions, films, performances, and educational programs that the Wexner Center presents.
Behind the deceptively clean interface is a custom content management system that allows the Wexner Center's staff to easily add, modify, or delete content and imagery as needed.
www.resource.com /company/news/release.php?releaseid=60   (446 words)

  
 Top20Columbus.com - Your Top20Guide to Columbus, OH.
Located in the geographic center of the state, Columbus serves as the county seat of Franklin County, but parts of the city also extend into Delaware and Fairfield counties.
To some extent, the Ohio State University is a museum unto itself with its rich history and roots in the Columbus psyche, but it does host a number of museums and museum-like exhibits.
Notable among these are the Wexner Center for the Arts, a contemporary art gallery and research facility located on the OSU campus, the Ohio State University Athletics Hall of Fame located in the Schottenstein Center (home of the OSU basketball and hockey teams).
www.top20columbus.com   (5278 words)

  
 weColumbus: Leonard Nimoy Gives $40K to Wexner Center
Leonard Nimoy and his wife beamed up for a visit to the contemporary arts center at Ohio State University, which will receive $40,000 from their charitable foundation.
The gift to the Wexner Center for the Arts is the largest share of the $425,000 being distributed to 21 U.S. art organizations.
The Nimoy Foundation, founded in 2003, has given the Wexner Center $90,000 in grants for artist residencies.
www.wecolumbus.com /blog/2006/05/leonard_nimoy_gives_40k_to_wex.php   (210 words)

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