The south side of the Wexner Center.

The Wexner Center for the Arts is a contemporary art gallery and "research laboratory" for the arts at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. It commissions new work and provides for artist residencies, in addition to presenting performing arts, film and video, and other visual arts exhibitions to the public. The Wexner Center opened in November of 1989, named in honor of the father of Limited Brands founder Leslie Wexner, who was a major donor to the Center. Wexner centre for the arts. ... The term contemporary art encompasses all art being done now. ... gallery may be short for Art gallery a gallery is an element in architecture, a long hallway flanked with walls or rows of columns Gallery is also the name of a 1970s music group headed by Jim Gold who are famous for their 1972 song called (Its So... Great Museums in the World (Louvre, Metropolitan Museum, MoMA, Picasso …) Weird photography CGFA: A Virtual Art Museum Very large website with good reproduction quality scans of thousands of paintings Art-Atlas. ... The Ohio State University (legal name), also known as Ohio State or OSU (not to be confused with Ohio University), is currently the largest state University in the United States. ... Skyline of downtown Columbus, Ohio, viewed across the Scioto River. ... Limited Brands (NYSE: LTD) (formerly known as ) is a company founded in 1963 by Leslie H. Wexner (current chairman and CEO, he and his family control 17% of LTD) in Columbus, Ohio, where its corporate headquarters is also currently located. ... Leslie H. Wexner (born September 8, 1937, in Dayton, Ohio) is a famous businessman from Columbus, Ohio, and currently chairman and CEO of the Limited Brands corporation. ...

The Wexner Center was the first major public building designed by architect Peter Eisenman. To reflect the history of the site, the building incorporated large brick tower structures inspired by the Armory building, a castle-like structure that had burnt down on the location in 1958. The design also includes a large white metal grid meant to suggest scaffolding, to give the building a sense of incompleteness in tune with the architect's deconstructivist tastes. Eisenman also took note of the mismatched street grids of the OSU campus and the city of Columbus, and designed the Wexner Center to alternate which grids it followed. The result was a building of sometimes questionable functionality, but admitted architectural interest. One of Eisenmans homes from his New York Five period Peter Eisenman (b. ... Bamboo scaffolding can reach great heights Scaffolding is a temporary modular system of metal pipes (termed tubes in Britain) forming a framework used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures. ... Deconstructivism, also called Deconstruction, is a recent school of thought in architecture which draws its philosophical bases from the literary movement Deconstruction. ...

Many notable artists have come to speak or present their art at the Wexner Center, including Gerhard Richter, Robert Rauschenberg, Anne Bogart, Philip Glass, and Julie Taymor. Though most of the exhibitions in the Wexner Center are only up for a limited time, it is home to a permanent outdoor installation designed by Maya Lin for the Center, entitled Groundswell, which is composed of rolling mounds of broken glass. Gerhard Richter (born February 9, 1932) is a German artist. ... Robert Rauschenberg is a painter, sculptor, and graphic artist known for helping to redefine American art in the 1950s and 60s, providing an alternative to the then-dominant aesthetic of Abstract Expressionism. ... Philip Glass looks upon sheet music in a portrait taken by Annie Leibovitz. ... There are several women named Julie Taymor. ... Maya Ying Lin (林瓔, pinyin: Lín Yīng) (born October 10, 1959) is a Chinese American artist and architect. ...

Included in the Wexner Center space are a film and video theatre, a performance space, a film and video postproduction studio, a bookstore, cafe, and 12,000 square feet (1,100 m²) of galleries.

The Wexner Center is currently being remodeled, wiring-wise until approximately autumn of 2005. The architecture of the building shall remain exactly the same. The galleries are the only part of the building which are closed, and affected by this particular change.

External links

• Wexner Center official site