The point of this letter is to propose that the coming of that distant day, and the end, therefore, of the need for the violent speech of the inner city streets, is up to us. The starving fellah (or the jobless inner city NHI, the global New Poor or les damnés), Fanon pointed out, does not have […]
Politics aside (ha!), how many times during your virtual travels through Pandemic Land have you stumbled across some website or other and thought to yourself ‘Well, this looks good’, only to realize, a few clicks in, that your attention hits an impasse (it only runs skin-deep) and so you move your cursor on? So much […]
Dear Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Department, I am writing this post for the gallery B side as an open letter to you in request that you show Wu Tsang’ 2012 short film For how we perceived a life (Take 3) as part of your online programming. Back in Fall 2013, during the visiting […]
While in the cradle, every parent, grandparent and god-fearing aunt wants the best for the new baby, hoping to keep the Evil Eye at bay. Over the years, their prayers for safety turn into dreams of success as the child grows and starts on the path through school to college. Now, bursting with pride at […]
At idle moments during this endless lockdown, have you ever imagined what the artworks in all those museums storage units around the world are getting up to right now? Of course, that troublemaker John Waters has. Writing on the Walker Art Center website back in 2011, he mused: Are prints, sculptures, paintings and photographs relieved […]
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 […]
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 […]
If you visit the website for Experience Columbus and go to the listing for The Wexner Center for the Arts, you will find that gallery B makes an appearance. However, now in 2020 you will be transported to the gallery as it looked back in 2011 with the above photograph of the exhibition Alexis Rockman: […]
