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2008-2009 in Review
By any measure, the 2008-09 season at the Wexner Center was one well worth remembering. Here's a place where you can revisit the Andy Warhol exhibition and many other memorable events and moments from July 2008 to June 2009.A Message from Director Sherri Geldin
At its inception twenty years ago, the Wexner Center was fairly unusual in its mandate to be multidisciplinary: to encourage and embrace disparate creative practices in the visual, performing, and moving image arts. In the intervening years, numerous museums in the U.S. and abroad have expanded their scope of address to variously include film screenings, performances, and other non-gallery-based expressions. Yet as one colleague notes, "the Wexner Center is unique in presenting high caliber works in different disciplines—not as adjuncts, but on equal footing." We do indeed place a high premium on being truly egalitarian and ecumenical in our programming.In fact, as I reflect on this fundamental aspect of our mission and mandate, it occurs to me that the term multidisciplinary is no longer quite adequate. In so many respects the Wex has become transdisciplinary: not simply or statically multidimensional, but rather vigorous in its pursuit of those artists who work across disciplines, navigating among and melding various art forms, sometimes to extraordinary effect.
Such has surely been the case over the last year, spectacularly launched by our five-month run of Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms, among the most transformational exhibitions in the center’s history....
Read Director Sherri Geldin's entire annual report essay here or in the complete PDF of Now Transmitting: 2008-2009 in Review.
A Year in Pictures
Browse through an online album of some favorite pictures and events.Curators' Thoughts
Hear our curators' reflections on the past year in these podcasts.Senior Curator of Exhibitions Catharina Manchanda and Curator of Exhibitions Christopher Bedford each talk about their first year at the Wex.
Director of Performing Arts Charles R. Helm discusses major music, dance, and theater events, as well as the exhibition William Forsythe: Transfigurations.
David Filipi and Chris Stults—our curator and assistant curator of film—reminisce about memorable "onScreen" moments from last season.
Shelly Casto and Amanda Potter—our director of education and educator for public and university programs—offer their insights about significant happenings of 2008-09.
Now Transmitting PDF
Download a PDF version of our printed annual report, Now Transmitting: 2008-2009 in Review.
Media Highlights
Browse through links to some of the most interesting and significant media coverage the Wexner Center received last season. Head to our page of media highlights.
What People Are Saying
Find out what all kinds of people—including leading arts professionals, artists, curators, donors, members, visitors, and teachers—thought about the Wexner Center and our programs from 2008-09. Visit our page filled with interesting quotes.
A Year in Pictures
Revisit favorite events (or see what you missed) in this online picture album.
GENERAL SUPPORT FOR
THE WEXNER CENTER
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Columbus Foundation
Nationwide Foundation
Ohio Arts Council
All Wexner Center programs and events also receive support from the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation and Wexner Center members.
