We have spent the last week imagining what it would have been like to have been flies on the wall of Michael Wolff’s first days inside the White House. If we were able to use some form of time-travel-metamorphosis machine to transport and transform ourselves, through time and space, we wish we were there at […]
It seems equally intuitive to align Classicism with Classical sculpture, as it is to investigate Classicism in contemporary art almost exclusively through the appropriation and transformation of Classical sculpture. Two recent, multifaceted projects – Liquid Antiquity and Modern Classicisms – which aim at bringing artists and Classicists together, are both grounded in this reactivating of […]
In an earlier Minus Plato post I created a brief photo-essay on Sara VanDerBeek’s Roman Woman series as it appeared in the pages of The Thing Quarterly project The Thing – The Book , which I discovered while browsing in the Tate Modern bookshop. In the conversation with Roxana Marcoci from the recent book Sara […]