Ohio State Events

The Monuments of Columbus Exhibition

Landscapes comprised of thickets, stockpiles, and industrial ruins structure the urban matrices of Columbus, Ohio. The Monuments of Columbus are investigations, interpretations, and figurations of these obscure sites that comprise the fringes and fallow grounds of the city. Work in the exhibition, produced by the community of students, faculty and collaborators of the Landscape Architecture Section of the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University, includes inventories, mappings, experimental geographies, sonic tours, and imagined and projected futures for the landscape of Columbus.

Works by Neighborhood Design Center: Proposing New Possibilities

Founded in 1983 as a partnership between the City of Columbus and The Ohio State University, the Neighborhood Design Center provides planning and design services to central Ohio neighborhoods and communities. Under the guidance of professional staff, student interns from the Knowlton School of Architecture and other university colleges explore innovative design concepts in order to solve urban problems. This exhibition showcases the numerous projects that the Design Center has explored in the past year.

Jaroslav Malina: Paintings and Designs

Recognized as one of the most influential theater designers in the world, Jaroslav Malina is a pioneer of "action theater," using non-traditional materials and techniques to transform the stage. This exhibition features more than 65 works of art including his lyrical, layered paintings along with set-design models and posters from the mid-1960s to the present. Viewers will also have the opportunity to see sketches, photography and a video interview of Malina himself.

RVA Concert: Bales, Giffin, Petry, Uris

$10 general admission, $5 senior citizens, students, and anyone with a BuckID.

Palmer Park

Palmer Park centers on five couples in the Detroit neighborhood of Palmer Park following the race riots of 1967. Their integrated lives are threatened when the high performing neighborhood school is forced to accept children from an adjacent working-class neighborhood. Racial harmony and friendships are changed forever with very sad and very real consequences.

Summer and Smoke

Originally entitled Chart of Anatomy, Tennessee Williams's play is the story of a lonely minister's daughter, living in a small-minded Mississippi town, whose only solace is a secret lifelong love for the former boy-next door. Their relationship becomes an emotional battle of wills when her spiritual devotion is pitted against his sensuous need for physical desire.

Football: Ohio State at Michigan

Away Game. Time: TBA

Luc Tuymans

Experience the work of Belgian contemporary artist Luc Tuymans in his first U.S. retrospective-and the most comprehensive presentation of his art to date.

Jointly organized by the Wexner Center and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the exhibition spans every phase of the artistÕs career and features more than 70 key paintings from 1978 to the present. It premieres at the Wexner Center in September and will then be shown at SFMOMA, before touring to the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels.

Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) is considered one of the most significant European painters of his generation, and he has been an enduring influence on younger and emerging artists. Born and raised in Antwerp, where he lives and works, Tuymans is an inheritor to the vast tradition of Northern European painting and draws on this heritage in his work. At the same time, as a child of the 1950s and 1960s, he is deeply interested in and understandably influenced by photography, television, and cinema. Also interested in the lingering effects of World War II on the lives of Europeans, he frequently explores issues of history and memory. His distinctive compositions make ingenious use of cropping, close-ups, framing, and sequencing, offering fresh perspectives on the medium of painting, as well as larger cultural issues. TuymansÕs paintings might initially suggest relatively innocuous depictions of everyday life, but there is almost always another meaning lurking beneath the surface. The artistÕs more recent work addresses the postcolonial situation in the Congo and the dramatic turn of world events after 9/11; these series have led Tuymans to a sustained investigation of the realms of the pathological and the conspiratorial.

Luc Tuymans fills all the Wexner CenterÕs galleries and highlights the fluid progression of the artistÕs work. Because his career began with filmmaking, TuymansÕs painting approach often suggests montage, as one image links to another, and additional meaning is conveyed by the piecesÕ adjacency. The retrospective reunites paintings in the groupings originally set out by the artist and so conveys the original dialogue among the works. The presentation also demonstrates how TuymansÕs tendency to work in suites and at an ever-larger scale align his work with current installation and site-specific art.

Text from Textiles

Showcases student research using the OSU Historic Costume and Textiles Collection to create theses, dissertations, and honors projects. Snowden Gallery, Campbell Hall. Running now through Dec. 5, 2009.

ARGENTINE TANGO by TangoOSU at POMERENE 213.
Beat Michigan MILONGA tonight! Details:
http://tango.osu.edu

TangoOSU, the Argentine Tango Student Organization at the Ohio State University, offers Practicas, classes and Milongas on Wednesdays and Saturdays at Pomerene Hall 213.

No partner needed (you will meet some), you may start any time, low prices if you come often, no prerequisites.

During the Autumn our timetable is as follows:

SATURDAYS: at POMERENE 213
7pm, Beginners; 8pm Intermediates;
9pm La MILONGA Buckeye.

WEDNESDAYS: at Pomerene 213 8:30pm Practica,

For more info -- and for any changes -- visit our webpage: http://tango.osu.edu

Join our facebook group: TangoOSU - Argentine Tango in Columbus, Ohio

Our email: tango@osu.edu - write to us to join our mailing list.

Tim Crouch "England"

"A rich drama created with rigorous, poetic economy...belongs to that wonderful genre of thoughtful plays that could be discussed for hours without exhausting its ideas."-New York Times

Winner of a Fringe First Award at the prestigious Edinburgh Festival and a hit at New York's Under the Radar Festival, Tim Crouch's powerful play ENGLAND is a compact tour-de-force whose themes will long stir you. Conceived to be staged only in contemporary art galleries, the piece is sure to resonant with the probing paintings by Luc Tuymans that will frame it here.

ENGLAND features Crouch and Hannah Ringham appearing as one character: a disarmingly cheerful narrator who serves as your somewhat naive tour guide for a tale whose deft turns reveal dark surprises. The play slyly works in searing observations about how we choose to value the things that are most dear to us-like art or family-as it exposes the stark contrasts between the boundless pursuit of health and happiness and such endeavors' hidden costs, or between the Third World and the West. Yet ENGLAND is also hugely entertaining and will charm you even as it gets to the very heart of matters of universal scope.

BuckeyeThon Dueling Dollars Challenge

BuckeyeThon and the University of Michigan's Dance Marathon are competing to see which school can raise the most money for their dance marathons during Beat Michigan Week. BuckeyeThon will have a table at the Beat Michigan Brunch at the RPAC. Students and faculty can donate to help support Nationwide Children's Hospital and to BEAT MICHIGAN!