Courtesy of the Wexner Center The photo installation New York/Colours on 42nd Street is on display at the Wexner Center through Dec. 30.

Art

Oct. 4, Creative Reading Series, An Evening of Prose and Poetry with Andrew Hudgins, Terri Goveia and Alis Sandosharaj, 7-8:30 p.m., 311-313 Denney Hall, 292-2242.

Dance

Oct. 7, Hamlet, BalletMet Columbus, 7:30 p.m., Riffe Center Capitol Theatre, 77 S. High St., admission, 292-3535.

Oct. 12, Mercy, with Meredith Monk and Ann Hamilton, 8 p.m., Thurber Theatre, admission, 292-3535.

Events

Oct. 1, University Women's Club Lunch and Lecture,"Look Who's Talking," Mike Harden, Columbus Dispatch, 11:30 a.m. lunch; 12:30 p.m. program, Faculty Club, admission, reservations required, 262-3582.

Oct. 2, Lunch and Learn Series,"Courts in the 21st Century: How They Really Work," Bradley Frick, attorney, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Faculty Club Grand Lounge, admission, reservations required (292-2262), 688-8584.

Oct. 3, Discover the Faculty Club, Wine Tasting -- Discover the Wines of South Africa, call for time and place, admission, reservations required (292-2262), 688-8584.

Oct. 10, Lunch and Learn Series, Columbus Zoo animals, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Faculty Club Grand Lounge, admission, reservations required (292-2262), 688-8584.

Exhibits

Through Sept. 30, Festival of Cartoon Art Exhibit, Historic Virtuoso Cartoonists, Columbus Cultural Arts Center, 139 W. Main St., 292-0538.

Through Oct. 19, Watercolors by Architecture Students in Italy during Study Abroad Studies, reception 5-7 p.m. Sept. 28, Brown Hall Architecture Gallery, 292-9449.

Through Oct. 26, 10th Annual Ohio State University Staff Arts and Crafts Exhibit, Bricker Hall first and second floor lobbies, 292-4341.

Through Oct. 28, The Shape of Color, paintings by Gracey Weisbrod, Faculty Club, 292-2262.

Through Jan. 15, Festival of Cartoon Art Exhibit, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995, Cartoon Research Library Reading Room Gallery, 27 W. 17th Ave., 292-0538.

Sept. 27-March 3, Funny Papers: Original Cartoon Art from Ohio, featuring work by Jim Borgman (Zits), Tony Cochran (Agnes), Polly Keener (Hamster Alley) and Jeff Smith (Bone), reception 5-8 p.m. Sept. 27, Thurber House, 77 Jefferson Ave., www.thurberhouse.org.

Lectures

Sept. 28,"Chinese Women Artists: Gender-specific? 1990s and the Millennium," Joan Lebold Cohen, Harvard University, 12:30 p.m., 211 Hayes Hall, 688-8184 or andrews.2@osu.edu.

Meetings

Sept. 28, Mobile Health Screening, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Drake Performance and Event Center, appointment required, kalamas-elder.2@osu.edu.

Sept. 28-29, China and the U.S. in the 21st Century: Politics, Economics, and International Relations, Sheng-tsung Yang, Chicago Taipei Economic and Cultural Office; David L. Shambaugh, George Washington University; Jerome A. Cohen, New York University; Marc Blecher, Oberlin College; Julia F. Andrews, Richard Ned Lebow, Susan L. Huntington, Richard K. Herrmann, Daniel Chow, Mike Peng and Chung-min Chen, 6:30 p.m. Sept. 28; 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Sept. 29; registration requested, 247-6893 or bi.2@osu.edu.

Sept. 28-29, Festival of Cartoon Art Forum, Ohio Union Conference Theatre, registration required, admission, 292-0538.

Oct. 3, 10, 17 and 24, Lunch and Learn, Moving into Awareness, Sy Kleinman, noon, McCambell Hall 2nd Floor Gymnasium, registration required, 293-9355 or www.osumhcs.com/wellness.htm.

Oct. 4, 11, 18 and 25, Lunch and Learn, Healthy Way Programs, Angela Gerber and Kelly Urse, noon, 122 Main Library, call for schedule of subjects, registration required, 293-9355 or www.osumhcs.com/wellness.htm.

Oct. 5, Board of Trustees, call for schedule, Prior Health Sciences Library, 292-6359.

Oct. 9, Faculty and Staff Photographic Society, Member Show and Tell from Past Year, 6 p.m. dinner; 7:30 p.m. program, Faculty Club, reservations required, 263-2950.

Oct. 10, Succeed Financially Series,"Financial Planning for Domestic Partners," American Express Financial Advisors, noon, Rhodes Hall Auditorium, registration required, 247-7961 or service@hr.osu.edu.

Music

Oct. 1, Faculty Artist Series, Caroline Hong, piano, 8 p.m., Weigel Auditorium, admission, 292-2300.

Schottenstein

Sept. 28, Neil Diamond, 8 p.m., Value City Arena, admission, (800) ARENA-01 or schottensteincenter.com.

Oct. 5, Guess Who with Joe Cocker, 7:30 p.m., Value City Arena, admission, (800) ARENA-01 or schottensteincenter.com.

Oct. 10, The Black Crowes with Beachwood Sparks, 7:30 p.m., Value City Arena, admission, (800) ARENA-01 or schottensteincenter.com.

Wexner

Through Sept. 30, Johan van der Keuken: From the Body and the City, in collaboration with Jeroen de Vries, Gallery A, 292-3535.

Through Dec. 30, Helio Oiticica: Quasi-cinemas, Galleries B, C and D, 292-3535.

Through Dec. 30, Internet Bed: Franz West: 2Topia, Wexner Center Cafe, 292-3535.

Through Spring 2002, Notations: Franz West: 2Topia, Cafe and Bookshop, 292-3535.

Sept. 28, Shaking Up the Box: A Decade of ITVS, Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins (Robert Richter, 1997), The Jew in the Lotus (Laurel Chitel and Lucia Small, 1998), and Diary of a City Priest (Eugene Martin, 2000), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535.

Sept. 30, Heavy Metal Parking Lot (John Heyn, Jeff Krulik, 2001), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535.

Oct. 1, godspeed you black emperor!, 9:30 p.m., Performance Space, admission, 292-3535.

Oct. 4, Cinema Iran: New Directors, New Directions, Daughters of the Sun (Mariam Shahriar, 2000) and Red (Fereydoun Geyrani, 2000), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535.

Oct. 5, Art and Ideas Gallery Talk, Bill Horrigan on Johan van der Keuken, 1 p.m., Coat Check Desk, 292-3535.

Oct. 5, Jim Jarmusch Retrospective, Down by Law (1986) and Bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1955), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535.

Oct. 5, Jonas Hellborg Ensemble, with Shawn Lane, V. Selvaganesh and V. Umashankar, 8 p.m., Performance Space, admission, 292-3535.

Oct. 7, Jim Jarmusch Retrospective, Dead Man (1995) and The Big Sky (Howard Hawks, 1952), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, 292-3535.

Oct. 9,"From the Tropical to the Topical: The Social Visions of Helio Oiticica and Johan van der Keuken," Bruce Jenkins, Harvard University, 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535. Oct. 10, Jim Jarmusch Retrospective, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) and Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535. Oct. 11, Art Explorers: Architecture, ages 3-5, 1:30-2:45 p.m., Information Desk, 292-3535. Oct. 11, Cinema Iran: New Directors, New Directions, Whispers (Parviz Shahbazi, 2000) and The Unfinished Song (Maziar Miri, 2001), 7 p.m., Film/Video Theater, admission, 292-3535.

Compiled by Mary Lindner