I promise that I will eventually return to the Riotous Baroque, but for now I want to make a plug for the exhibition that I am curating at the Ohio State Urban Arts Space, which runs from August 6th to September 12th. The exhibition is called Plato’s Cave-Segal’s Studio and is a creative juxtaposition between […]
Last night I attended a curious event at the Guggenheim Bilbao – a mesa redonda (roundtable) discussion of the exhibition Riotous Baroque: From Cattelan to Zurbarán – Tributes to Precarious Vitality – 3 days before the exhibition actually opens (this Friday June 14th). As a conversation between curator Bice Curiger and participating artists, Marilyn Minter […]
Opening at the Guggenheim Bilbao next week is the exhibition Riotous Baroque: from Cattelan to Zurbarán – Tributes to Precarious Reality curated by Bice Curiger and arriving from a run at the Kunsthaus Zürich. The exhibition, according to the press release on the Guggenheim website (see here for the full, very illuminating, text: http://prensa.guggenheim-bilbao.es/src/uploads/2013/06/Dossier-Barroco_EN.pdf) aims […]
We are heading into the last weekend of the three current exhibitions on show at the Wexner Center for the Arts here in Columbus, Ohio: Christain Marclay’s The Clock Josiah McElheny Towards a Light Club More American Photographs I want to share with you a project I designed for the students of my Philosophy 3210: […]
The Cave of Light: A Dark Symposium Monday, April 1, 2013 – 4:00pm Wexner Film/Video Theater, 1871 N High St. Josiah McElheny works with glass and light, shown in a museum of glass made by Peter Eisenman. Paul Scheerbart wrote a story about a cave of light that McElheny translated. Miguel de Cervantes wrote a […]
Before giving some more details of my latest foray into teaching Classics via Contemporary Art, here is a link to a recently published article in the Ohio State OnCampus newspaper on the so-called ‘Double Take’ phenomena created by Amanda Potter, who runs Educator, Public and University Programs at the Wexner Center for the Arts. http://oncampus.osu.edu/eclectic-pairs/ […]
Now the dust has settled on my experimental class on Classical Mythology/Contemporary Art, I want to make 2 final posts on this topic before moving onto the topic of my next project as part of an Ancient Philosophy course this coming semester (watch this space). This post will merely list the topics and art works […]
I have finally found some time to post an update about my class Classical Myth/Contemporary Art. We have the final presentations on Monday on the topic of ‘Conflicted Identities’, so I thought what better way to warm up for the post following that class than to highlight this particular topic in some of the previous […]
The presentations on the topic of ‘Origins & Creation’ in my class Classical Mythology/Contemporary Art were delivered on the following art works. Peter Fischli & David Weiss The Way Things Go, 1987Hans-Peter Feldmann 100 Years, 1996-2001Alighiero Boetti Map, 1989Sheela Gowda And Tell Him of My Pain, 1998-2001 Vija Celmins Untitled (Ocean), 1990-1995Damian Ortega Cosmic Thing, […]
It just so happened that a day or so after Vladimir Umanets (aka Wlodzimierz Umaniec) ‘defaced’ one of Mark Rothko’s 1958 Seagram murals at the Tate Modern in London, I taught the latest Classical Myth/Contemporary Art class on the topic of Objects vs. Ideas: Conceptual Art. While I had the below list of artworks to […]