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.

MFA Concert #1 - Fox/Hanlon

$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.

Football: Ohio State at Penn. State

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.

Black Veterans' Day Salute Honoring African American Servicewomen

African American women who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces will be honored.
Colonel Dolores Helen Hampton, the first president of the National Association of Black Military Women, will be the keynote speaker.Following her presentation, a panel of African-American servicewomen will share their stories.

ARGENTINE TANGO by TangoOSU at POMERENE 213.
La MILONGA Buckeye 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.

COLUMBUS ARGENTINE TANGO SOCIETY Workshops (3) with Guest Teachers Daniela Pucci and Luis Bianchi (New York) followed by a practica at 4:30 p.m. The workshops are for all levels, and no partner necessary

COLUMBUS ARGENTINE TANGO SOCIETY milonga (dance party) with Guest Teachers Daniela Pucci and Luis Bianchi (New York)

Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress at the OSU Urban Arts Space

Waitressing is one of the most common jobs for a woman to have and like most womenÕs work, it is often dismissed, stigmatized, or simply ignored. Join author and photographer, Candacy A Taylor, as she reads excerpts from and discusses her critically acclaimed book, Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress. Celebrate AmericaÕs hardest working women who have been waitressing in diners throughout the US. Following the discussion will be a book signing. Free and open to all.