On Wednesday September 1st, 2010 museums and galleries from around the world participated in an elaborate question and answer initiative that proved to be equal parts social science experiment and educational opportunity. It was, in its way, a reckoning; the… [Read More]
The Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition is perhaps a little too easy to overlook. It’s a short exhibition by gallery and museum standards, running only the duration of the fair. It’s in the Cox Fine Arts Center, located past… [Read More]
Mark Bradford’s current exhibition at the the Wexner Center serves as a potential springboard for dozens of conversations about art and society. The layered detritus of old billboards and advertising posters invites viewers to examine a particular place and time…. [Read More]
Warming weather is a sure sign that yard sale season is just around the corner. Now, before you break out the Sharpie and start pricing everything in the house, you might do well to ask yourself: “What’s this thing really… [Read More]
That ruins continue to fascinate us should come as a surprise to no one. A short list of the world’s most popular travel destinations includes all manner of dilapidated temples, fortresses, castles, columns, and walls. Our interest in ancient ruins… [Read More]
Sat, Jan 30 – Sun, Apr 11, 2010 Wexner Center Galleries Our contemporary view of sports and athletes appears to have been largely reduced to a series of either/or propositions. Ask one person about sports and they’ll explain that they… [Read More]
The paintings by Suzannah Sinclair currently on display at the Mahan Gallery are disarmingly earnest and straightforward. This is worth mentioning since, by all rights, they shouldn’t be. You see, Sinclair paints intimate portraits (i.e. nude and semi-nude) of young… [Read More]
Sycamore (2009) left, and Woven Willow (1996-2008) right. October 22, 2009 – December 27, 2009 The Peggy R. McConnell Arts Center of Worthington When the Peggy R. McConnell Arts Center of Worthington set out to organize the inaugural exhibition for… [Read More]
The Nose 2002 oil on canvas 11 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. September 17, 2009 – January 3, 2010 at Wexner Center for the Arts At a recent Wexner Center media event, Luc Tuymans lead a gaggle of donors, critics,… [Read More]
May 2nd 2009 – February 28, 2010 at The Ohio Historical Center Soul!, an exhibition currently on display at the Ohio Historical Center, provides the chance to view over 100 works of art selected from the Ohio Historical Society’s National… [Read More]
Columbus Museum of Art, May 1 – September 6, 2009 George Tooker seems to have always been a little out of step. In the 1940s and 50s, as painting veered from Surrealism to abstraction to Abstract Expressionism, Tooker held fast… [Read More]
In this week’s ColumbusUnderground.com Podcast, we sit down to chat with Jeff Regensburger from the Northwest Library, Angel Gondek of the Educational Resource Center at Columbus State, and Rachel Rubin from the Old Worthington Library. Together, we discuss the proposed… [Read More]
In the interest of full disclosure I’ll start by admitting I’m not the Warhol fan I used to be. If my regard for Andy Warhol were to be drawn as a bell-shaped curve, I’d estimate my current position at about… [Read More]
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