He was talking about me with his mother on the phone today. He told her how he had ‘killed’ me, by which he meant he packed up all of his classics books into clear-plastic boxes and put them in the basement, thus figuratively ‘killing off’ his classics library, and now I was that library’s ghost, […]
After some delay, what says the public? It’s Joe’s time! So now, at long last, the smooth transition of a backwards flow towards normalcy softens the bite of an increasing viral death toll, trimming the long nails of Trumpism…for now. But in the meantime, what can art do for US? Either draw a line in […]
From my diary, May 1, 2013: “The 1st of May parade, the march, the working-class 1st of May, etc., etc. I have worked too much, I still work nonstop – the studio is full. The month of May is the month of Mihai and me, we are both born in this month, I at its […]
While waiting at the Dubai International Airport after three whirlwind days at the opening of Sharjah Biennial 14 (hereafter SB14), I found myself idly looking back over my Instagram posts from the exhibition. Even though I had taken hundreds of photographs, videos and audio recordings of my experience at the exhibition, I had only shared […]
This is my last Sunday of ‘Minus Plato Today’ and, typically, it is the hardest day to squeeze in a post. As with today, I usually have less than an hour to write, and so I often post something suggestive and less fleshed-out than on other days. While many Minus Plato posts are the result […]
What drew you to The Line of Geta Brătescu? Why did you settle on these works from the series? Were you not captivated by the video of her drawing the lines in action? (You would have heard her commentary on the lines as they grew). Does this photograph mean that you stood before the vertical […]