Wexner Center for the Arts

05/29/2026

Make the most of summer with a museum membership. Members enjoy free parking, discounted admission, early access to programs, and exclusive invitations all while supporting bold art and big ideas in Columbus.

Your membership fuels exhibitions, screenings, performances, and learning opportunities for the whole community. Whether you stop by once or all season long, membership pays off in both value and impact.

Join today and enjoy a summer of art. 🖼️☀️

05/28/2026

Bleak Week is fast approaching ⏱️🥀

Experience a week of some of the greatest films from around the world, exploring the darkest sides of humanity. In partnership with the American Cinematheque, we’re presenting films like “Beneath the Planet of the Apes” (Ted Post, 1970), Agnès Varda’s “Vagabond,” “Come and See” (Idi i smotri, Elem Klimov, 1985), and more!

Screening June 4–10. Visit WexArts.info/BleakWeek26 to see the schedule and get individual tickets!

05/28/2026

Bleak Week starts June 4 with Melancholia. Read up on the weeklong series at Columbus Underground. Tickets available now.

For five years, American Cinematheque has presented Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair, a weeklong festival celebrating “the darkest sides of humanity” — and this year, the Wexner Center has been invited to participate.

05/27/2026

Cécile McLorin Salvant returns to the Wex next year with her bold new project Oh Snap.

As part of the 2026–27 Jazz series, the visionary vocalist and composer Cécile McLorin Salvant brings her singular blend of storytelling, theatricality, and jazz artistry back to Columbus. See her for two captivating performances on April 1!

Cécile McLorin Salvant
April 1, 2027 | 7 & 9 PM
Get tickets at WexArts.info/CécileMcLorinSalvant

05/25/2026

The Wexner Center for the Arts is closed today in observance of Memorial Day.

05/21/2026

If there was a patron saint of Bleak Week, it'd have to be the great Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr.

Experience his final film "The Turin Horse" (A torinói ló, Béla Tarr, 2011) at the Wex. Cinematic, time-altering, and entrancing, the film (shot in striking black-and-white photogoraphy) transports audiences into the back-breaking routines of an aging farmer, his daughter, and their stubborn hourse.

Screening in 35mm on June 7 as part of Bleak Week. Get tickets at WexArts.info/TheTurinHorse

05/20/2026

Announcing Alfredo Rodríguez Band with Special Guest Pedrito Martínez at the Wex!

As part of our 2026–27 Jazz series, the Alfredo Rodríguez Band, joined by virtuoso percussionist Pedrito Martínez, will bring a vibrant fusion of Cuban jazz, Afro-Cuban rhythms, and contemporary improvisation to the Wex.

February 19, 2027 | 7 & 9 PM
🎟️ Get tickets at WexArts.info/AlfredoRodríguez

05/19/2026

CLOSING SOON — Hew Locke: Passages

It’s the final week to see Hew Locke’s exhibition at the Wex. Through his works, Locke, who is of Guyanese and British heritage, invites viewers to examine how cultures shape their identities through visual symbols of authority, what those symbols meant historically, and how they’re interpreted today.

From the moment visitors enter the galleries, they will experience Locke’s ornamental language, which includes symbols of nations and empires and the global movement of wealth, peoples, and cultures.

Plan your visit at WexArts.info/HewLockeLastWeek before the exhibition closes. On view through May 24!

05/18/2026

On International Museum Day, we’re celebrating the spaces that bring people together around art, ideas, and experiences that matter.

When you become a member, you’re not just enjoying free admission and exclusive benefits—you’re helping make exhibitions, education, and creative access possible for our community all year long.

Join today and help ensure the museum continues to inspire, challenge, and connect us all.

Become a member today at WexArts.info/JoinMembership

05/15/2026

On this day in history, two students were killed at Jackson State University in Mississippi.

On May 14, 1970, city and state police confronted students protesting racism on campus. Shortly after midnight, the police opened fire at a dormitory, killing two of the students. Following the Kent State shootings by exactly 10 days, the killings at Jackson State, a historically Black college, were not reported on or memorialized in song like Kent State.

The silence around these shootings in contrast to those at Kent State, and the role of memorials as sites of forgetting and remembering, are focal points for Naeem Mohaiemen's exhibition "Corinthians," now on view at the Wex. At the center of the exhibition is Mohaiemen's "Through a Mirror, Darkly" (2025), a three-channel film that choreographs a visual relationship of debate, friction, and disagreement between archival footage and contemporary ceremonies in Ohio, Mississippi, and New York.

Exploring period artwork and engaging with the film’s unfolding discussion invites visitors to reflect on how, as Mohaiemen describes it, “the farther away we get in years, the hazier the many meanings of events in the mirror of memory become.”

Learn more about the exhibition at WexArts.info/MohaiemenCorinthians. On view through August 9.
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Naeem Mohaiemen: Corinthians. Installation views at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, 2026.