Following the thread from yesterday, another exhibition at the Wex at the same time as Gretchen Bender’s in Gallery B, looked back through its archives on the cusp of the 2020 election was Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese’s Political Advertisement X 1952–2020. Here are a couple of trailers: If it wasn’t for the privacy settings, […]
Judgment on Trial: Ancient Myths and Modern Ideologies The courtroom has always been a charged symbolic site; legal process and crime now dominate the popular imagination to an unprecedented extent. There televised trials and televised manhunts, encouraging the fantasy of “solving” crime by forcing individual criminals through the mangle of publicity. Politics and crime are […]
Today’s post is like that moment in Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape when Krapp eats a banana and, several minutes later, slips on the peel he left on the floor. But in place of Krapp, we want you to imagine Trump, and for the banana, a gun. Maybe Banksy can help us visualize this: Arming teachers, […]
Recently I have been thinking about the Forum as a model for an exhibition – not only the Roman Forum, but also the Imperial Fora and even Domitian’s palace complex. What would it mean for an audience to encounter performative artworks in the way ancient Romans encountered speeches at the Rostra, ambassadors at the Graecostasis […]