November 2016
The Daily Trick of Looking New: Minus Plato Today
Las Materias Cubanas: José Manuel Fors between botany, literature and art
Like something almost being said: Petra Cortright’s HELL_TREE
Chris Marker’s Homer
Fifth Test, Day 5: Sophie von Hellermann’s Cricket
This is the End…Sorta: Blueprints for a Past Future
December 2016
Ancient Mirrors: Sara VanDerBeek in Ostia
Cheese, Mirrors and Bears: In Frederic Tuten’s Cave
The Minus Plato Manifesto
Postcards from an everyday Odyssey
et in Arcadia ego, or, Guns on Campus
What a difference a Myth makes
Acidmenics: Back to College with Petra Cortright
A Small Step (for John Glenn) and the Ancient History to Come
Judging Covers: Plato’s Altered State
Ancient Medicine in Los Angeles
Zeus is comin’ to town
MBCBFTW with or without Homer’s Odyssey
The Title of the Future: Badiou’s New Classicism
Out of Athens: South as a State of Mind/documenta 14
R. H. Quaytman vs. Cyclopean Painting
Mrs. Midas’ Last Supper
Mourning Becomes Simone Weil
To disarm the Gorgon: Weil’s Platonic Cinema (Part One)
Digital Truths: Weil’s Platonic Cinema (Part Two)
Carthago delenda est: Lara Favaretto’s As if a Ruin, 2012
The Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Maurizio Cattelan
Flaying Apple: Ed Atkins’ Marsyas
Bonne Année (courtesy Minus Plato)
January 2017
The Veil of Anachronism: Kasper Bosmans’ Hellenism
Every Day Data Diaries: Cory Arcangel’s hypomnemata
Kara Walker’s Sphinx sketches
Cartoons familiar and ancient: Looking into the Eyes of Ian Cheng’s Metis Suns
Were we a Dialogue? Diotima at Black Mountain College
No Post Just A Shell
Manifesto Mania: Beyond Minus Plato
After Rome: Amy Sillman’s iPad Ovid
The Handbook of Handbooks for Artists and Classicists
From Semele to Nefertiti: Juliana Huxtable’s Art News Consumer Report
Sowing Semina
The Good Lives of Jonathas de Andrade
Black Penelope at the Window: Romare Bearden and Kerry James Marshall
William E. Jones’ Herculean Variations
Those goddamned Achaeans: Nadia Kaabi-Linke and Cy Twombly
The Framework of European Weakness: Adam Pendleton’s Black Dada
The absence of love, the fundamental creative force, is even more catascopic
Whisper it here: “Nero has an ass’s ears”
Introducing The Suetonius Gallery
Nancy Spero’s Women’s March through Time
Caligula hates the gods and the gods hate Caligula: Badlands Unlimited’s New Proverbs
A Modern Photius: Stuart Sherman’s Amazon Book Reviews
Rocket from the Tombs: Moyra Davey’s Walking with Nandita
Sarah Lucas’ Ornamental Aidoia
Epictetus in Ohio: Come Along With Me
Estamos contra el muro: Nero’s Walls
Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Athens Dialogues
Abounaddara’s Campus Martius
Devices for Looking: Rheim Alkadhi’s Eye-Odyssey
Bodies of Memory: Adelita Husni-Bey’s Lethe
February 2017
Taking Refuge in Aristotle: Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri’s Ecce Occupy
While Rome Burns: Jimmie Durham’s The True Story of How Cuban Communists Gained Control of Trump Tower
Literae Humaniores: Prometheus Bound as Continuous Project
Democracy Now: Carmen Herrera, Group Material and Cultural Participation
Sappho and the Patriarchs
What do we own? What is the same? Sappho Catullus Moravia Kruger Lawler Levine
Tiresias’ Dilemma: A Postcard from Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Sherrie Levine’s kouroi
Bodies in Minimalism: Gerard Byrne on ataraxia
Will others see a Peacock? Ovid’s Argus, Blixen’s Stork and Frances Stark
The Rape Corners: Honoré Sharrer as Arachne
With Us, Women: Lucy Lippard’s c. 7,500 Ancient and Modern
Apples of Concord: Listening for the Kabakovs and Fallen Fruit in Columbus
The Tablet of Thesis: A Mythosynthetic Hypothesis
VERBALL: Lee Lozano’s Symposium
Immigrant Song: Jannis Kounellis’ Greek doors and Roman epitaphs
All the colours of the rainbow: Menippus with André Cadere
Immersed in the Literarium: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s Splendide Hotel
Names and their Noise: Kim Gordon in Athens
Josh Smith’s ipsedixitism
Search & Tell Catullus
A Companion to Names in Catullus
Traps to stop you in your Tracks: Haim Steinbach’s Two Owls
A Chair-Like Thing: Sebastien de Ganay’s Trojan Horses
Leap Look Book: Exhibition Catalogue as Platonic Object
Pillar-Like Objects: An Anecdoted Topography of M I N T
In the Footsteps of Giants: Contemporary Artists before and after Rome
How It Looks to Be a Problem: Joe Overstreet’s Buried Geometry
March 2017
apparent rari nantes: The Atlas Group/Walid Raad’s SOS
The World of Fama: Hadjithomas and Joreige’s “2008, A Matrix”
Recovering Myths: Randa Mirza’s “El-Zohra Was Not Born in a Day”
Animal Spirits and Nature’s Nets
The collective genius of M I N T
Tolle Lege Tolle Lege
Selfie Culture Class
Come Along With Her: Melissa Vogley Woods’ Drop-In Workshops
Painting Dead Paint: Steven Parrino’s autothanatography
Live Art, Stone Heart: Claudia La Rocco’s Medusa
Halved for Pickling: Xavier Le Roy’s “Self Unfinished”
Geometric dancers: Ralph Lemon’s drawings
Diogenes vs. Zeno: Jérôme Bel’s “The Show Must Go On”
No Cave: Mette Edvardsen’s “Black”
Anti-Orpheus: Returning to Tino Sehgal’s “This Variation”
A gift of the fuel gods: Nari Ward’s “Ultra”
Those fragments made me fall asleep: William E. Jones’ “Fall into Ruin”
Allan Sekula and the 13th Task of Hercules
University as Forum: Muntadas, John Rapko and Berkeley 2001
Trisha Brown’s Socratic movements
Museum Director as Classicist: Suzanne Pagé and “Migrateurs”, 1993-2003
The Phoenix’s nest and M I N T’s flaming rebirth
Songs of the Loom: working rhythms of Circe and Aboubakar Fofana
Holidays in Hell: Minus Plato’s Instantly Illustrated edition of Apuleius’ “The Golden Ass”
Book 1: The Second Death of a Fake Socrates
Book 2: Another Actaeon Attack
Book 3: Enduring the Laughter Festival Again
Book 4: Robbers’ Tales and the Banal Beauty of the Bear
Book 5: Invisible Labor in Love’s Palace
Book 6: Sorting Seeds and other Soul Tasks
Book 7: Travels with my Donkey and The Following Story
April 2017
Book 8: Ass-Meat of the World
Book 9: The endless, incessant work of Human and other animals
Book 10: Scandal in the Arena of Spectacle, Survival and Self-Performance
Book 11: The new you and having it all
From Dispersion to Destiny: Launching Liquid Antiquity
Cephalus and Polemarchus Redux: A father-son dialogue on Philippe Parreno’s “Anywhen”
Letters to Atticus: A Minus Plato Guide to the Opening Day of Documenta 14
The Classical in Cleveland: From Jean-Michel Basquiat to Adam Pendleton
Minus Plato has never felt better in its life
Exile as Foundation: “Action at a Distance” at the Angela Meleca Gallery
Beyond the Dominant Operating System: Daniel García Andújar’s Hacked Classicism at documenta 14
Themistocles’ Fighting Birds: Allison Semele Blair’s “Wooden Walls/Second Ships”
When Speaking Stones Go Silent: “Void Writing” – an Exhibition by 조은영
Euripides and the Beautiful Boy: Moyra Davey at documenta 14 – Part 1
This Too Shall Pass: Video Ithacas of “Come Along With Me”
The Americas Road Trip after the Chilean Cave: Juan Downey’s “Plato Now”, 1973
Epigraphical Interventions: Gauri Gill at documenta 14
Ancient Sites of New York City 1: A Greek Temple in the Sky
Ancient Sites of New York City 2: Herodotus at the Post Office
Ancient Sites of New York City 3: Minotaur on the Subway
Ancient Sites of New York City 4: Murmurs of the Eternal City at Penn Station
Ancient Sites of New York City 5: The lost rooftop nymph
Ancient Sites of New York City 6: Cave-shops of Brooklyn Bridge
Ancient Sites of New York City 7: Like the last Trojans leaving Manhattan
There is no Rome: Looking for Utopia in Trisha Donnelly’s “Letter to Tacitus”
Condemned to Live in the Ruins of Heaven: Athens between Antonis Theodoridis, Aristide Antonas and documenta 14
Flocks of Greek Birds: Harun Farocki among the ancient artists
What Apollo Saw: Picturing Chris Marker’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”, 2008
Dare to Mutmut: Making New Proverbs from Apuleius to Badlands Unlimited
Escaping Hades: Deana Lawson’s “Portal”, 2017 at the Whitney Biennial
May 2017
Past the Mission, I Smell the Roses: Tori Amos’s Army in Michael Robinson’s “Mad Ladders”
Being Made Otiosus: Cicero’s Caesar at the Venice Biennale
Myth For Allies: THESIS, Day 79
Minus Plato Turns 5 Years Old Today
Bitter Victory and the Patriarch: Rachel Harrison at Greene Naftali, 2016-present
The Work Harder Handbook by Artists and Classicists Together
I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good: Harry Potter between Classicists and Artists
Breakfast with Socrates: Yvonne Rainer’s Voice
This Meme: Ancient Graffiti, Pepe the Frog and Mary Miss on Ohio State Campus
On Three Separate Occasions: Triangles and Trauma in William Kentridge’s Triptychs
Look Before You Cut: A Letter to the Ohio Senate on Higher Education
The Art of Fighting for Space: M I N T’s “Meat Ball” in the Roman Forum
This is not an Odyssey: A week of Anabases with Eric Baudelaire
Anabases 1 – Conversations in the Mountains
Anabases 2: Chronologies of Coming Together
Anabases 3: A Letter about Xenophon’s Diary
Anabases 4: Notes on Cracking the Cy Code
Anabases 5: A Poem between Charles and Eric
Anabases 6: Footnotes in a struggle about struggle
Anabases 7: Jumping the Gun since 1968
Myth Club Columbus presents “The Twelve Tasks of Lileci”
A is for X-Ray: Seeing Basquiat past the 110.5 Million Dollars
In the Cave of Black Demeter with Laura Larson’s “Hidden Mother”
Re-Platonizing Photography Sontag
Black and White and Read All Over: The Virtus of Text and Image in “Gray Matters”
Is A Woven Thing: Sarah Charlesworth’s “Text”, 1994
Heraclitus’ River, Narcissus’ Pool, Plato’s Cave and Gordon Bennett’s Citizen
Be Present: Minus Plato On Location
Indigenous Speech and Migrant Language between Apuleius and Cecilia Vicuña
Stoic Marmite Soldiers: Annotating Alejandra Franch’s “Huevo”, 2017
A Place for the Name: Franz Erhard Walther’s Toledo
June 2017
Out of Servius: Sulpicia and Lee Lozano’s Dropout Politics
You’re really not going to like it: Peter Fraser’s “Mathematics” for the Impatient
Non Plus Ultra Salitre: Human Struggles within the Pillars of Hercules
En la Librería con Photographica Ovidiana
In the beginning was the blog: Daniel G. Andújar’s Keywords and Isidoro Valcárcel Medina’s Philosophers
The World is Not Bilbao: The Cynicism of Mattin’s Social Dissonance
Human Animal Mask: Pierre Huyghe’s Fable between Documentas
We Must Take Narcissus By Surprise: Symbolic Classical Debt and Everyday Collective Action
Athens Documenta Diary, Day 1: Thirsty Work at EMST
Athens Documenta Diary, Day 2: Muses and Readers at ASFA
Athens Documenta Diary, Day 3: Giving All and Having Nothing at the Benaki
Athens Documenta Diary, Day 4: Unauthorized Ruins at Athinaiki Techniki
Athens Documenta Diary, Day 5: Good Vibrations at the Odeion
Help! I Need Some Body: Looking for Last Year’s Liverpool Biennial
Finding the Liverpool Fountain of Betty Woodman
Silence and Violence at The Oratory
What Will Survive Of Us Is Love
Alpha to Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: A is for Amereida
Alpha to Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: B is for Beats
Alpha to Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: G is for Grimm
Alpha and Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: D is for Do
Alpha to Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: E is for Equilibrium
July 2017
Alpha to Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: Z is for Zoe
Alpha to Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: E is for Empty
Alpha to Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: Th is for Thatcher
Alpha and Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: I is for Instructions
Alpha to Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: K is for Kassapis
Alpha to Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: L is for Line
Alpha and Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: M is for Marmoreal
Alpha to Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: N is for Niche
Alpha to Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: X is for Xerocheilia
Alpha to Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: O is for O w l
Alpha and Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: P is for Pauline
Alpha and Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: R is for Redden
Alpha to Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: S is for Stories
Alpha to Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: T is for Timing
Alpha and Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: U is for University
Alpha to Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: F is for Fence
Alpha to Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: Ch is for Chorus
Alpha and Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: Ps is for Pseudonym
Alpha to and Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: O is for Otobiography
The Pantheon in the Sky and the Pyramid in the Basement: Imagining Monumental Shifts
Cultured Culture and Radiant Eroticism: Gloeden’s Bacchus and Takis’ Saint Sebastian
R. B. Kitaj’s Monument to Rosa Luxemburg
A Glass of Ancient Spanish Beer: Rodney Graham in Malaga
Sentenced to Life: Alyce Kaplan at dOCUMENTA (13)
This Variation: Recollecting documenta’s position in Kassel’s poses
Kassel Documenta Diary Day 1: Bread and Readers at the Neue Galerie
Kassel Documenta Diary Day 2: Finding Athens at Gottschalk-Halle
Kassel Documenta Diary Day 3: Contingent Structures at Karlsaue Park, Prelude
Kassel Documenta Diary Day 3: Structural Contingency at Karlsaue Park, Coda
Three Athenians in Kassel, Episode One: The House
Three Athenians in Kassel, Episode Two: The Routine
August 2017
Three Athenians in Kassel, Episode Three: The Day Off
Three Athenians in Kassel, Episode Four: The Report
Three Athenians in Kassel, Episode Five: The Research
Three Athenians in Kassel, Episode Six: Blood of My Blood
Three Athenians in Kassel, Episode Seven: The Conquest of Universal Harmony
Three Athenians in Kassel, Episode Eight: Only a Pawn in Their Game
Three Athenians in Kassel, Episode Nine: I Shall Be Released
Three Athenians in Kassel, Episode Ten: Masters of War
Three Athenians in Kassel, Episode Eleven: The Quest
Three Athenians in Kassel, Episode Twelve: The Homecoming
Between the Senate and the Library: The Art of Books on the Move and in their Place
Political Glossaries as Exercises of Freedom
Blank Books and Yoda’s Bible at Pope. L’s “Black Factory”
Lost Books on the Head and in the Hand
Audiobook: She Do the Sirens in Different Voices
Bookends: Waiting Rules for Caryatids
Perictione & Sons: A Minus Plato Office Hours Exhibition
Sites of Electracy: Vier5 at Aristotle’s Lyceum
Cicero in Junktime: Hito Steyerl’s Lorem Ipsum
The Shape of Books to Come
Books Killed the Radio Star
Every Book I Love is on the Table. Every Book I Love is out to Sea
The Syllabus is Not the Mother of Self-Invention: Jesse Ball’s “Notes on My Dunce Cap”
What Now? Perictione & Sons, Day 1
The Stupidest, Dumbest, Most Beautiful Artistic Thing: Airistotle on Art and Imitation
More Open than a Field: Creative Expansions of Enclosed Space
I Just Look at the Pictures: Persephone Ferrando Agamben Narcissus
Echo is Golden, Side A
Morning Mosaic Montage for John Sparagana’s “Reading Revolutionaries”
White Statue asleep in his Mercedes: Corporate Fascist Classicism in Troy Brauntuch’s 1979 Exhibition
How Glenn Ligon’s “Coloring” Exhibition Can Teach Us About Diversity in Ancient Times
September 2017
Handing Back Louise Lawler’s “Hand on her Back”
Listening like a Seed: Postcommodity with Theophrastus
The Journey Back through documenta 14
The Journey Back, Day 1: The Arrival
The Journey Back, Day 2: The Ekphrasis
The Journey Back, Day 3: The Epiphany
The Journey Back, Day 4: The Exile
The Journey Back, Day 5: The Prophecy
The Journey Back, Day 6: The Prayer
The Journey Back, Day 7: The Instructions
Echo is Golden, Side B
As surely as Medusa: Monica Ross’ justfornow for Minus Plato Today
A Stone Man: Writing past Mark Bradford’s Venice myth
She was a bad woman: Mark Bradford as Pygmalion
There are worse things than velleities: To Joyce Burstein on Thomas McEvilley and Cindy Sherman
Undoing the Athens model: documenta 14 artists’ advice to the Brexit classicist
Exit through the Trojan Horse
Protreptic for Cyprus: Crates, Aristotle and Manifesta 6
Cecilia Vicuña’s Homeric Blue Thread
The university will not completely die: Horace’s Rome, MoMA and the Weight of Value
Theatrokratia: Platonic noise between Jacques Rancière and Seth Price
Dispatch from the Department of Ignorance
One, Two, Three Stages of Boris Charmatz’s “Aatt enen tionon”
As shore to her ocean: Sarah Michelson’s dancers
Body Beauty Bookshelves: Cicero’s pegmata and les gens d’Uterpan’s “Library”
The Dancing Philosopher: Goshka Macuga’s Aby Warburg
Kaepernick, A 21st Century Portrait
Myth Mother Invention: Conception
Plato’s Analogy of the Black Square: Boris Groys, Anton Vidokle and Russian Cosmism
The Historical Value and Intellectual Merits of Kara Walker’s Diversionary Tactics
October 2017
Answering Machine: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s “The Cabinet of Curiousness”
Discriminating Ideas and Disobedient Attitudes: Eulàlia Grau’s “Discrimination of Women”
Blogistorici: On Art Writers Blog Grantees 2008-2016
The Muses, the Pierides, the Sirens and Odile Duboc’s Les Fernands
Myth Mother Invention: In Utero
For Rebeka, a New Citizen of these Uncertain States of America
William Kentridge’s “The Refusal of Time” and the Philosopher’s Twin
Pearls that were his Eyes: Molly Nesbit, Gabriel Orozco and Democritus
Cloaking Nature, Covering Sound: Cornelius Cardew’s “Daisy Chain Rite” at the Stoa Poikile
You are not the Problem: Ketty La Rocca’s “Pandora”
Visions of Our Elders: Anchises’ Roman Empire versus Postcommodity’s Future Majority
Howling True Names: Corwin Clairmont’s “Submuloc Warrior Visits D.C.” and Jimmie Durham’s “Columbus Day”
Restless Souls Wise Teeth: Doug Aitken’s Animals and Valeria Luiselli’s Workers
Change Always Lags: Amy Sillman’s “The O.G. #11: Metamorphoses”
Ouch. Touché, Brutus. That was an Operation.
A woman, a reincarnated Orpheus: Channeling Touissant L’Ouverture in Kettly Noël’s “Zombification”
An Internet of Smoke, Dust and Attention: Exchanges between Jeroen van Loon, Despina Catapoti and Fronto
What We Don’t Save: Remnants of Marcello Maloberti’s “Blitz” and “Cleopatra”
Myth Mother Invention: Birth
The Memorable Deeds and Sayings of Aleksandra Domanovic
Teaching Together: Bringing Anna Halprin’s “Myths” into the Classroom
Myths for Mutual Pedagogy 1: Creation
Myths for Mutual Pedagogy 2: Atonement
Myths for Mutual Pedagogy 3: Trails
Myths for Mutual Pedagogy 4: Totem
Myths for Mutual Pedagogy 5: Maze
Myths for Mutual Pedagogy 6: Dreams
Myths for Mutual Pedagogy 7: Carry
Myths for Mutual Pedagogy 8: Masks
Myths for Mutual Pedagogy 9: Story Telling
Myths for Mutual Pedagogy 10: Ome
November 2017
One and Three Readers: Black Documenta Dada Mother
Myth Mother Invention: Infans
Understanding Happenings on a Friday Afternoon
To drill Platonism into ruins: “Life: a novel” between Hannah Black and Juliana Huxtable
The Tarpeia Debates: Sites of Roman Executions and Sam Durant’s “Scaffold”
A New Life as Screen Effects: Sculpture as Photography in Liquid Antiquity and Modern Classicisms
Apollo’s Lyre and Pandora’s Box: Douglas Crimp on the Neoconservative Museum
Neither the West nor the Marginalized Rest: Pia Arke beyond Thule
Mother Myth Invention: Childhood
Post Modern Classicisms Dialogue, Part One: Returns to Order
Post Modern Classicisms Dialogue, Part Two: Transgressing Subjects
Post Modern Classicisms Dialogue, Part Three: Classicism’s Stigma
Vuk Who? Classical Canonicity, Mass Effect and Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology
The Epic Among Us: Changes of the Guard from Gilgamesh to Kamasi Washington
In the Eye of the Cyclops: Patriarchal Atrocities, Puerto Rico, 2017 Whitney Biennial, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Monique Wittig, Sirens, Echo, Judith Butler, sair goetz, Feminist Revolution
Myth Mother Invention: Empty Nest
She Stands Apart: Antigone on this day in 1978
A bird fell to earth, reincarnated from her birth: Euripides in the House of Nina Simone
The Owl and the Tyrant: Aesop and Domitian between Geta Brătescu and Melissa Vogley Woods
Personal Helicon: for Dani Restack, across Time and Space
Who Has Stolen Our Bodies: A Day Spent Searching for Chu Yun
No Philosopher King: An Ancient Guide to Art and Life Under Trump
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