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Ohio is home to a large number of fragments from medieval books, a rarity for the Midwest. Eric Johnson, professor and curator of Thompson Special Collections at The Ohio State University, said Ohio has more manuscript pages per capita than anywhere ...

The Ohio State University has selected Nyama McCarthy-Brown as its inaugural Artist Laureate. She will begin a one-year appointment on July 1, 2023. 

There are 88 keys on a typical piano. There are also 88 counties in the state of Ohio. This coincidence led to the creation of Opus 88, a program from The Ohio State University’s School of Music that seeks to bring the university’s musical talent to ...

Acclaimed Indigenous filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin visited the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University earlier this month to screen her 1993 documentary “Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance.”...

Margaret Newell, a distinguished professor in The Ohio State University Department of History, was “delighted” to learn she would be receiving $492,000 from the Mellon Foundation.“Historians generally don’t get these big grants,” she said. “It really...

This fall, an exhibition featuring the work of artist Sarah Rosalena is opening at the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA). Kris Paulsen, associate professor and chair of undergraduate studies in the Department of History of Art at...

After 50 years, the curtain is closing on The Ohio State University’s Drake Performance and Event Center. But the end of an era on one part of campus leads to a new beginning on another.

Gaëtane Verna’s interest in the arts began in her childhood.“I come from a family where my parents thought that a good education required that you did some art,” said the new executive director of the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State Univ...

Last week, Fiona Hill, former Senior Director for Europe and Russia at the National Security Council, spoke to a riveted audience at The Ohio State University.

Michael Ibrahim, the newly appointed director of The Ohio State University School of Music, knew the university was special when he agreed to take the job last spring.

According to Michelle Wibbelsman, associate professor of Latin American Indigenous Cultures in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University, the masks featured in the “Dancing with Devils: Latin American Masks Traditions” exh...

As she worked on the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center’s “Beyond Guilt” exhibition, curator Jennifer Suchland came to understand multiple meanings for the title.The first, said Suchland, also an associate professor in the Department of Wom...

“Imagine you’re a moth in this gallery. What piece of art is your favorite?”This is one of the writing prompts that Kari Gunter-Seymour recently gave the student participants in the Wexner Center for the Arts’ Pages program. Pages is a free program t...

In 2008, Dana Renga sat down to watch the Super Bowl. Renga, professor of Italian and dean of arts and humanities at The Ohio State University, is “obsessed” with the commercials, she said. That year, one of the ads, for Audi, was an homage to “The G...

Marian Moser Jones, associate professor of health services management and policy in the College of Public Health and associate professor in the Department of History, joined The Ohio State University just this year. One of her first projects was comp...

The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University has tapped art historian and arts administrator Gaëtane Verna to be its next executive director. Verna will be coming to the Wex in November from Toronto’s The Power Plant Contemporary Art G...

Religion and sound are tied together in evocative ways.Church bells. Public proselytizing. Calls to prayer. Tantric chanting. What does religion sound like, and how can we learn new truths about the diversity of religion in the United States when we ...

In her project A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures, Carmen Winant, associate professor in the Department of Art in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University, explores the community that women build for themselves to escape ...

When it came to choosing a location for her Fulbright experience, Jasmine Stork admits that part of what drew her to Poland is how little she knew about the area.

The Ohio State University is home to one of the country’s larger collections of some of the planet’s smaller creatures. The C.A. Triplehorn Insect Collection holds more than 4 million dry pinned insect specimens and another 2.5 million wet specimens....

One of the more arresting pieces in To Begin, Again: A Prehistory of the Wex, 1968-89 at the Wexner Center for the Arts is a 40-foot-long sculpture made by Betty Collings. “Dance” is an inflated, pale vinyl tube that twists and turns over itself. It ...

Early last month, Elissa Washuta, assistant professor of creative writing in the Ohio State University English department, received word that her latest book, “White Magic,” was on the shortlist for the 2022 PEN Open Book Award....

Climate change affects every aspect of life, from public health to the economy, and is so expansive that it can seem overwhelming. Art can make the issue more personal and help individuals understand the role they can play in making a positive impact...

From anti-tobacco ads starting in the 70s, to the musical “Rent,” to a surge of coronavirus-inspired street art, public health topics are woven throughout arts and culture.

With the economy still rebounding from the pandemic and a polarized political climate generating heated debates about the state of democracy, many are wondering what the future holds. Two researchers from The Ohio State University say studying the pa...

Many Americans define themselves by race. However, those who base their identity on skin color and other physical traits may be surprised to learn that race is a social rather than biological construct, researchers say. ...

If you’ve watched a slasher movie, you’ve probably been exposed to the final girl trope – a closing scene of a white, suburban teenage girl who triumphed over a threatening monster and lived to tell the tale. ...

If you really want to understand literature, don’t start with the words on a page – start with how it affects your brain.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of its new members for 2021, which includes two faculty members from The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences: Fritz Graf, Distinguished University Professor in the Depart...

What does it mean to "own" a piece of conceptual art?  That question led a law professor into an investigation of the tangled relationship between art and law.