He cannot talk to his father about Our Library of the Future, but even if he could, I don’t know if he would be able to. There is a (radical?) softness to his openness to the flow of books from here to there, not to mention my presence as a narrator of sorts, that questions […]
I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now. It is that vague time between the COVID-19 lock-down and the great reopening. With the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery on my mind, I scribble the following oddly formed questions into my notebook: what position is left for, or forced upon you, […]
…a collective choreography of banal movements…[1] …even protesting a museum exhibition is still a form of participation…[2] …not even if I had ten tongues and ten mouths…[3] …a Roman would always think we…[4] …Judith beheading Holoferenes: make art history scream…[5] …at the Old Library Wex’s book starts to come alive…[6] [1] Hey you, yes you, […]
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 […]
Looking back, we will never forget this day (May 3). Here we are, still in the time after the inauguration and before the wall, as Trump’s relentless abuses continue with the recent signing of the new transgender military ban. As you know, we have been meeting downtown every Monday evening. We sometimes tell you about […]
At times, over this year of posting daily on Minus Plato, an artist or an artwork comes to me, seemingly out of nowhere, as the fruit of a momentary alignment of interests that pass between a Classicist and their obsession with contemporary art. These moments are very special to me, because they highlight how this […]
