As part of the Art 4004/5005 Drawing Ideas course that I taught this semester with Suzanne Silver the students had a project in which they had to use copies of Plato’s Republic either as their sketchbooks throughout the course or as singular work of art (an altered book project). I will explore the tension between […]
I am still not really up to discussing my confrontation with the gun-wielding ‘educators’ on campus yesterday. Sure there have been a few reports of the interaction in local media and friends have told me that I was on the news last night, but for the purposes of this post I am still processing the […]
Today is Frederic Tuten’s 80th birthday and so I want to use this post to celebrate my friend and the brilliance of his fiction. Tuten’s work reflects the beauty of life and art, like sunlight on a rippling surface, with a humanism and pathos that we need in these dark times. Only Tuten could have […]
Today is the last day of Blueprints for a Past Future – an exhibition that brings together the work and ideas of Faculty and Students from this semester’s classes at Ohio State that engage with the radical educational and artistic experiment of Black Mountain College (during the run of the Wexner Center for the Arts […]
Artist and publisher Paul Chan was recently interviewed by 032c magazine about his recent book projects with his press Badlands Unlimited that include a series of erotic fiction written exclusively by women (New Lovers) and a radical new edition of a Platonic dialogue (Hippias Minor or the Art of Cunning). I know that I have […]
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Plato’s Academy in Second Life from http://virtualplatosacademy.blogspot.com.es A few months ago I was interviewed by Victoria Ellwood for the Spring 2015 issue of the OSU College of Arts & Sciences magazine ASCENT about my winning one of the inaugural Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Awards last year. The generous award included a fund to […]
The new Wexner Center Exhibition Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil opens tomorrow (Friday January 31st), which gives me the chance to let you know about an exciting project that I have assigned the 662 (no, that is not a typo!) students in my Classics 2220: Classical Mythology class this semester. In the final section of […]
We are heading into the last weekend of the three current exhibitions on show at the Wexner Center for the Arts here in Columbus, Ohio: Christain Marclay’s The Clock Josiah McElheny Towards a Light Club More American Photographs I want to share with you a project I designed for the students of my Philosophy 3210: […]
American artist and activist Paul Chan’s Phaedrus Pron, a ‘hyper-translation’ of Plato’s Phaedrus, is worth looking at. Here are thirteen ways you can get into it: 1. You can watch the trailer (yes, this book has a trailer): ****Viewer Discretion Is Advised**** 2. You can listen to Chan reading an excerpt for you and here […]