Top Five: What’s popular on screens, in music / E2 Public art Cancer ‘close’ to remission for Valerie Harper / E2 Gary Cole displays range with trio of TV roles / E10 Sculpture refers to affection Section E • The Columbus Dispatch • Friday, Aug. 30, 2013 for city By Amy Saunders THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Movie review / The Grandmaster Conversations with Colum- bus residents left artist Lawrence Argent with one dominant impression: People here love where they live. “I felt this very endearing component of emotion that was attached to the city,” said the Denver resident, who was hired to create a piece of public art for near North Bank Park. His thoughts after a site visit last year: “How do I make something that is amorous and showing the affection?” The answer became Flowing See Sculpture Page E3 Ip Man (Tony Leung) EAMON QUEENEY DISPATCH One part of the new Flowing Kiss sculpture The Razor Yixiantian (Chen Chang) Gong Er (Ziyi Zhang) CRITICS’ WEINSTEIN CO. PHOTOS CHOICES Each week, we consult Metacritic. com to compile aggregate opinions based on reviews from various sources. Each movie is ranked by its “Metascore,” an average rating from zero (terrible) to 100 (outstanding). — Michael Grossberg MAJESTIC COMBAT [email protected] Martial arts Stunningly photographed, choreographed tale MOVIE..................................SCORE makes mighty addition to fighting genre Crouching Tiger, Hidden 93 Dragon (2000) By Kenneth Turan • LOS ANGELES TIMES The Grandmaster (2013) 74 The Grandmaster. Directed by The Legend of Drunken Master 74 n exercise in pure cinematic style filled with ravishing Wong Kar Wai. (2000) images, The Grandmaster finds director Wong Kar Wai MPAA rating: PG-13 (for Fearless (2006) 70 applying his impeccable visual style to the mass- violence, smoking, brief drug use, language) The Karate Kid (2010) 61 market martial-arts genre with potent results. A Running time: 2:03 He has found a way to join the romantic languor of his earlier Now showing at the Easton Crime thrillers films, such as In the Mood for Love, with the fury of Bruce Lee. 30, Lennox 24, Movies 10 at MOVIE..................................SCORE Working with his alter ego, actor Tony Leung, and an impressive Westpointe, Pickerington and The Town (2010) 74 Ziyi Zhang while leaving the action choreography to the skillful Polaris 18 theaters The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo 71 Yuen Woo-ping (The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), (2011) Wong indulges in mythmaking on the grandest scale. Another review The American (2010) 61 The film is named for Lee’s real-life martial-arts teacher, the Getaway E3 Closed Circuit (2013) 53 See Combat Page E5 Jack Reacher (2012) 50 THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH LIFE&ARTS FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2013 E3 PUBLIC-ART INSTALLATION Sculpture FROM PAGE E1 Kiss, a pair of 15-foot sculptures that feature puckered lips made from billowing sheets of stain- less steel on a base of black granite and white marble. Installed this week on oppo- site sides of Neil Avenue in the grassy median between Long and Spring streets, the piece represents the first public-art commission for Columbus in at least 25 years. Much of the public art in Columbus parks and other spaces was privately funded. The city itself hasn’t sought artwork in such a long time that no one seems to remem- ber the last project, said Lori Baudro, a program coordinator with the city’s planning divi- sion. The Columbus Arts Com- mission existed without pur- pose for decades before finally convening in 2007. Since then, as the city focuses on the Downtown and Scioto River areas, the seven- member commission has over- seen several public-art projects for the city — starting with Finding Time, a collection of EAMON QUEENEY DISPATCH PHOTOS temporary art that commemo- ABOVE: Art installer Brooke Smith, left, and artist Lawrence Argent erecting the eastern piece of Flowing Kiss rated the Columbus bicenten- BELOW RIGHT: Both pieces of the sculpture in place nial last year. Flowing Kiss, which cost NEIL A NEIL NEIL AVE. NEIL NATIONWIDE $250,000 to design and install, HUNTINGTON ARENA is the result of a juried compe- FRONT ST. PARK VE. tition that attracted 64 pro- posals. Members of a ARENA DISTRICT NATIONWIDE BLVD. commission-appointed panel chose Argent, best-known for Flowing Kiss MCFERSON creating a 40-foot blue bear sculptures COMMONS that peers into the Colorado 33 Convention Center in Denver. SPRING ST. In June, the Columbus City NORTH BANK Council allocated $281,000 for PARK Scioto Lounge, a collection of SCIOTO RIVER LONG ST. humanlike bronze deer by a Santa Fe, N.M., artist that will THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH be installed as soon as next year on the riverbank behind COSI Columbus. and exciting chapter of public intrinsic part of Columbus,” Both projects stemmed from art in Columbus,” said Diane she said. the Miranova tax-increment Nance, chairwoman of the As Argent worked on the financing agreement, which Columbus Arts Commission. installation this week, many funds development projects in The new city-commissioned passers-by told him that Flow- the Scioto Mile area. public art, in addition to pri- ing Kiss is cool — then asked, On a smaller scale, the arts vate projects such as the “What is it?” commission has been working Columbiad sculpture planned Though amused, he isn’t with central Ohio artists on two for the Scioto Mile, can boost inclined to divulge his answer, projects for 2014: Franklinton Columbus tourism — the way preferring that people interpret Gateways, the creation of Chicago visitors are drawn to the piece on their own. neighborhood entryways on Cloud Gate (“The Bean”), said “I think that’s where the Town and Rich streets; and Jami Goldstein, spokeswoman magic of art lies,” he said — nine bike racks to be installed for the Greater Columbus Arts “especially public art.” on city property. 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