“International Women’s Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women. Yet progress has slowed in many places across the world, so global action is needed to accelerate gender parity. Leaders across the world are pledging to take action as champions of gender parity – not only for International Women’s Day, but for […]
Do you miss browsing books in the Wex Store? Well, now you can transport yourself there via a new Wex Store playlist curated by Store Manager Matt Reber (available on iTunes – click the image below to listen). You can also read about the playlist on the Wex Blog: https://wexarts.org/read-watch-listen/daily-stream-wex-store-playlist I was honored to make […]
I can’t recall too many moving image works installed in gallery B, but even if I could, I don’t believe any could compete with the intensity of Mickalene Thomas’ 12 monitor video installation Me as Muse (2016) included the 2018 exhibition Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me. For the earlier (2017-2018) exhibition Trigger: […]
In the film le feu follet (The fire within, 1963), the main character, Alain Leroy, played by Maurice Ronet, regularly contemplates the date July 23 written across his mirror. This date imprints itself as an image. It also recalls the film Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cléo from 5 to 7, 1962) by Agnès Varda, […]
Wastelands/peripheral fields/gaps in the urban/are places here boundaries show themselves as something in motion-fluid-uncertain. Areas leftto their own devices in all their variety correspond to today’s necessities/the noticing of caesurae/connections and their repercussions/to be seen as a symbol of voluntary renunciation/of nonintervention. Space/created as a consequence of precise carelessness toward/what we generally call nature – […]
The Wex often creates its own moments of self-reflection, looking back on earlier exhibitions as it looks forward to the new. In September 2019, such a moment occurred when one of the center’s earliest works – The Inbetween by Carole Ann Klonarides and Michael Owen (aka MICA-TV) – was screened in The Box. To accompany […]
Chris Marker: Staring Back, curated by Bill Horrigan, may have been the best single-gallery B exhibition I have ever seen. Here are some of the Wexner Center’s own photographs of the opening, with then director Sherri Geldin. Such a memorable exhibition deserves mementos – including a catalog, postcard and front page on the calendar. Does […]
The Global Movement is developed on the skin of connectivity and the vibrant differences of our microrevolts. This is called emotional evolution. It is viral and constant. It is horizontal and empowering. It makes rulers resign. Play is the effective way to learn and teach. Movement expresses the thinking and living at present. It actualizes […]
