Painted sometime between 1938 and 1941, a work of Rothko’s so-called ‘mythic’ period, before his ‘classic’ work of the 1950s, Antigone depicts a tangle of torsos, rising from a rectangular blue box of feet and other strange objects, coalescing into a series of four (or five) heads – two red-faced males, one with curly hair […]
Dani Leventhal, Untitled, 1999 This startling quotation comes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Essay on the Origin of Language, which I stumbled across while idly leafing through Jacques Derrida’s Memoirs of the Blind. The statement is a reference to the famous anecdote about the origin of drawing or painting that was first described by Pliny the Elder […]
I have no idea who (if anyone) reads this blog, so I thought I would try a little experiment to see who is out there & at the same time, discover a little something about you, specifically if it is your curiosity about the Classical or the Contemporary (or both) that brings you here. To […]
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As his latest Balloon Dog (this time of the orange variety) goes under the hammer at Christie’s tonight, it is worth noting that, when given the chance, its creator, Jeff Koons, has consistently described this particular work of his as a ‘Trojan Horse’. From the current Christie’s sale: “It’s a very optimistic piece, it’s a […]
A browse through the Store at the Wexner Center for the Arts here in Columbus, Ohio, never fails to inspire me in my ongoing education in the weird and wonderful world of contemporary art, and also with topics to post on Minus Plato. The latest is Frank Santoro’s Pompeii, which is a brilliant graphic novel […]
The exhibition Donald Lokuta: Plato’s Cave-Segal’s Studio ended yesterday and so I wanted to use this post to give those of you who were not able to see it in person a glimpse of what it looked like. Below are the wonderful photographs of Melissa Tomich which she took during her and Donald’s visit for […]
In the calm after an exciting week of events at the Urban Arts Space as part of Donald Lokuta: Plato’s Cave-Segal’s Studio, you can reflect on the broader issues at stake in the exhibition by turning to page 242 of the September Issue of Artforum Magazine. There you will come across an ad for the […]
The artist Donald Lokuta, whose work is the subject of the exhibition I have curated called Donald Lokuta: Plato’s Cave-Segal’s Studio, which is currently on view at the Urban Arts Space, is visiting Columbus for a series of events this week. These events include an in-depth gallery tour and a talk in the Wexner Film//Video […]