There is a lot that goes into a great cup of coffee, so Crimson…
The days of summer keep melting away, but we still have cool memories of…
Aspiring mixologists will soon need to find a new venue to explore the craft…
Easton Town Center has been selected by retail industry magazine Chain Store Age as…
Lululemon starts its year-long run at 640 N. High St. as of today. The…
A new clean beauty and wellness store is headed for Grandview. Fine Feather is…
Two new permanent art projects will be unveiled this summer in the Short North…
New public art is coming to the Short North.
In July 2019, the Short North…
VIVO Music Festival—the annual weeklong chamber music festival—is approaching its fifth year. It returns…
The new Canopy by Hilton, at 77 E. Nationwide Blvd., will feature 167 hotel…
Construction sites remain plentiful throughout Columbus, as the region continues to add new residences,…
Looks like the ticket taxes, as introduced by the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC)…
Columbus City Council has taken marijuana reform into their own hands. The Council on…
Ohio’s six week abortion ban has been blocked by a federal judge. Planned to…
In June 1973, an arsonist torched New Orleans’ second-story UpStairs Lounge, locking the outer…
Columbus Crew SC finally snapped out of their miserable two-month winless streak on Saturday night,…
Nineties and naughties alt-rock radio mainstays Third Eye Blind and Jimmy Eat World stopped by…
B-Movie Mania Takes Over at the Wex
July 3, 2019 10:27 am
Hope Madden
Who’s ready for a hot, lurid summer? Maybe a trip to a more transgressive Hollywood? The Wexner Center for the Arts has you in mind with their seasonal double series B-Movie Mania: A Low-Budget Summer. Beginning this weekend and running through the end of August, the Wex celebrates those maverick and rogue filmmakers of the […]
A Month of Penny Lane at the Wex
April 29, 2019 1:22 pm Hope Madden
May is a month of Pennies at the Wexner Center for the arts. Documentarian and former Artist in Residence Penny Lane (yes, that’s her real name) brings her work to the Wex, beginning with a look at The Bachelor and ending with a glimpse into modern Satanism and mysterious illness. The filmmaker, a recipient of […]
Wexner Presents World Premiere of Ann Carlson’s The Symphonic Body/Food
April 9, 2019 12:30 pm
Richard Sanford
The Wexner Center for the Arts caps a stunning performing arts season with a return appearance by choreographer Ann Carlson. Carlson brings The Symphonic Body/Food, the newest iteration in Carlson’s Symphonic Body series and the product of her latest Artist’s Residency Award. I spoke to Carlson by phone from New Jersey where she was premiering […]
The Wexner Center Presents Norwegian Collective Verdensteatret’s HANNAH
March 27, 2019 12:58 pm Richard Sanford
The Wexner Center made its name by bringing international art of the highest caliber to Columbus, regardless of genre. Much of the work that’s cut deepest and left the most lasting impression has been hard to categorize and almost impossible to describe. The latest entry in that storied list is an appearance by the exciting […]
Artist Laura Parnes Brings Hybrid Rock Doc to Wex
March 19, 2019 9:35 am
George Wolf
Thursday won’t be Laura Parnes’s first visit to the Wexner Center for the Arts, and she’s excited about that. “I had a film/video residency there, and it was wonderful. I’m very impressed,” she said. Parnes, a New York-based artist and filmmaker, brings her “hybrid” music documentary Tour Without End to the Wex for a screening and Q&A […]
Celebrate Film Restoration with the Wexner Center
February 19, 2019 12:10 pm Hope Madden
For the fifth consecutive year, the Wexner Center for the Arts celebrates the art and artistry of film restoration with its Cinema Revival festival. The program offers moviegoers the chance to see beautifully restored films — groundbreaking classics, blockbusters and underseen gems — while digging into the process that protects these treasures for viewers of […]
Wexner Audiences Take a Tour of the 20th Century Through Dance with “Paramodernities”
February 5, 2019 12:24 pm Richard Sanford
Wexner Center audiences got their first taste of acclaimed New York-based dancer Netta Yerushalmy in Joanna Kotze’s antic, beautiful IT HAPPENED IT HAD HAPPENED IT IS HAPPENING IT WILL HAPPEN in February 2018. Yerushalmy returns to Columbus this weekend with one of the most intriguing choreographic projects in recent memory: Paramodernities. Yerushalmy’s website calls Paramodernities […]
