Tag Archives: Columbus Museum of Art

Amerika: The Land of (Broken) Promises

26th May 2021UncategorizedColumbus Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley, Sa'dia RehmanMinus Plato

I started typing out these thoughts as an Instagram post, only to stop myself, copy and paste them here, and continue to write them as a Minus Plato post instead. As I continue to post, repost, amplify and comment on Instagram, I too often forget that one reason I started this blog in the first […]

But Their Memory Remains

15th May 2020UncategorizedAimé Césaire, Alain Resnair, Andrea Fraser, Another Gaze Journal, Art Institute of Chicago, Aruna D'Souza, Awa Konaté, Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Benin Bronzes, British Museum, Candice Hopkins, Carnegie International, Chris Marker, Cleveland Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Decolonize This Place, Emeka Ogboh, Fred Moten, Fred Wilson, Hannah Mason-Macklin, Hans Haacke, Henrik Folkerts, Indrid Schaffner, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jeff Koons, Koyo Kouoh, Leo Asemota, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Like Wind on Rushes, Michel Leiris, Mickalene Thomas, Mounira Al Solh, Museums Art Not Neutral, Nari Ward, négritude, Occupy Collections, Pablo Picasso, Sarah Maldoror, Savoy/Sarr Report, Sharjah Biennial 14, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Whisper into a HoleMinus Plato

A voice comes from somewhere (or within), braying: Well, listen to him! So sanctimonious in his white wokeness and so-called decolonial critique (whatever that is)! We see what you’re doing, writing this out loud for strangers’ ears, but inwardly, under your typing tongue, you murmur, “Oh, let the old guard suffer, so I can profit!”. […]

They Represent Who We Are: Wangechi Mutu’s Caryatids and the Rodin Facade

15th October 2019UncategorizedAuguste Rodin, Caryatids and the Patriarchy, Columbus Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wangechi MutuMinus Plato

To continue my project Caryatids and the Patriarchy, I want to celebrate the unveiling of four new sculptures by Wangechi Mutu commissioned for the facade at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: The NewOnes, will free Us (2019). As the museum website announces, Mutu’s work: inaugurates an annual commission to animate The Met’s […]

Caryatids and the Patriarchy Triptych

20th September 2019UncategorizedAnn Hamilton, Auguste Rodin, Caryatids and the Patriarchy, Columbus Museum of Art, documenta halle, Jenny Holzer, Lala Rukh, Maya Lin, Pablo Picasso, Wexner Center for the ArtsMinus Plato

1. He is still Here (Wexner Center for the Arts) 2. Lala Rukh’s ‘The Unholy Trinity’ (documenta Halle) 3. The House of the Falling Man (Columbus Museum of Art)

The Portrait’s Unfinished Curriculum: Introducing Caryatids and the Patriarchy

31st July 2019UncategorizedAuguste Rodin, Caryatids and the Patriarchy, Columbus Museum of Art, iQhiyaMinus Plato

The Portrait is a performance by iQhiya, a collective of young black South African female artists based in Cape Town. In April 2017 the work was performed in Athens (at the Athens School of Fine Art – ASFA) as part of the exhibition documenta 14. An endurance and durational piece, that comprised the members of […]

Last episode I left you with Cornel West. He was speaking about the blues as part of the exhibition Blues for Smoke, which was on show here in Columbus at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2013 at the same time as Chris Marker’s Le Joli Mai, with its concluding poetic call for the […]

Apples of Concord: Listening for the Kabakovs and Fallen Fruit in Columbus

13th February 2017apple of discord, Columbus Museum of Art, Fallen Fruit, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Minus Plato Today, Wexner Center of ArtColumbus Museum of Art, Fallen Fruit, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Wexner Center for the ArtsMinus Plato

Working in the Wexner Heirloom Cafe, sitting with my laptop as I prepare for classes and answer emails, also means that I am lucky enough to be interrupted by compelling conversations about contemporary art. It just so happened today that I was reminded of the ancient myth of the apple of discord by two completely […]