Ohio State News (Arts,Humanities)
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2023
August
31,
2023
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09:00 AM
America/New_York
A dance degree means learning how to be an entrepreneur, not just a dancer. That’s a core belief of Charles O. Anderson, chair of the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University.
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August
22,
2023
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07:26 AM
America/New_York
Train elementary school students how to be creative and you can help increase their resilience in the face of real-life problems, new research suggests.
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July
10,
2023
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11:30 AM
America/New_York
The newly inaugurated Artist Laureate at The Ohio State University, Nyama McCarthy-Brown, just returned from a trip to Brazil. An associate professor in the Department of Dance, McCarthy-Brown accompanied students to the country for two weeks to …
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May
19,
2023
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10:00 AM
America/New_York
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 …
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March
15,
2023
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14:00 PM
America/New_York
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.”
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March
02,
2023
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10:00 AM
America/New_York
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 …
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March
01,
2023
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13:00 PM
America/New_York
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 …
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January
27,
2023
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10:00 AM
America/New_York
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 …
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2022
November
01,
2022
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15:00 PM
America/New_York
Modern technology offers tools for preserving and piecing together clues to decipher ancient manuscripts, international scholars said during The Ohio State University’s 2022 Texts and Contexts Annual Seminar.The event was held Oct. 28 at the Ohio …
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October
25,
2022
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12:00 PM
America/New_York
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.
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October
12,
2022
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13:00 PM
America/New_York
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” …
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October
05,
2022
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11:00 AM
America/New_York
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 …
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September
30,
2022
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12:00 PM
America/New_York
“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 …
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June
02,
2022
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14:00 PM
America/New_York
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 …
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May
25,
2022
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12:00 PM
America/New_York
The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University unveiled a new partnership that will allow the institution to welcome guests free of charge, beginning June 10. Guests can avail themselves of free admission with the center’s multifaceted …
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May
02,
2022
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12:00 PM
America/New_York
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 …
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March
17,
2022
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13:00 PM
America/New_York
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 …
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February
11,
2022
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09:00 AM
America/New_York
Coinciding with the start of Black History Month, The Ohio State University’s Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity hosted a Feb. 3 virtual presentation highlighting the civil rights strides that society has made in the past several …
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January
28,
2022
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09:00 AM
America/New_York
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 …
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January
06,
2022
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10:00 AM
America/New_York
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.
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2021
November
02,
2021
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14:00 PM
America/New_York
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 …
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May
28,
2021
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08:04 AM
America/New_York
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.
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January
06,
2021
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09:32 AM
America/New_York
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.
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2020
March
31,
2020
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09:50 AM
America/New_York
Brian Padgett, a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology, had been working toward his PhD for nearly nine years. On March 20, his journey was set to culminate with his dissertation defense.
Padgett had long-ago purchased a …
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March
21,
2020
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10:39 AM
America/New_York
In an era of political polarization in America, much of which is related to issues of race, it appears that members of one group have their own take on a history book written by an Ohio State scholar 16 years ago.
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February
20,
2020
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10:13 AM
America/New_York
Visual artist LaToya Ruby Frazier and documentary filmmaker Julia Reichert spent Tuesday evening on The Ohio State University campus, talking about how art can spark change in our society.
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2019
July
19,
2019
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10:19 AM
America/New_York
Standing over onlookers at 31 feet high, it's hard to miss Modern Head, a new public sculpture by world-renowned artist Roy Lichtenstein.
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July
08,
2019
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03:00 AM
America/New_York
In an era of concern over “fake news,” a new study finds that people draw a distinction between information sources that are dishonest and those that are biased.
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July
03,
2019
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09:55 AM
America/New_York
In the eyes of many Americans, the Fourth of July is a day for parades, barbecues and, of course, fireworks.
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July
02,
2019
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13:07 PM
America/New_York
In a world of sympathetic villains and flawed heroes, people still like fictional characters more when they have a strong sense of morality, a new study finds.
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