So much for Caligula as emperor; we must now tell of his career as a monster… Installation View: CLUB CALIGULA Stefania Batoeva, Club III, 2015, Oil on canvas, 230 x 180 cm After he had assumed various surnames (for he was called “Pious,” “Child of the Camp,” “Father of the Armies,” and “Greatest and Best […]
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Plato’s Academy in Second Life from http://virtualplatosacademy.blogspot.com.es A few months ago I was interviewed by Victoria Ellwood for the Spring 2015 issue of the OSU College of Arts & Sciences magazine ASCENT about my winning one of the inaugural Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Awards last year. The generous award included a fund to […]
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At the bookshop in the Tate Modern last weekend I picked up this curious book: Scattered throughout the book I came across several photographs of ancient sculpture (all women). Some were frontal views of well-preserved busts: Others were frontal views of broken figures: Some were side-views of well-preserved busts: Others were side views of broken […]
I have just visited the Colombian artist José Antonio Suárez Londoño’s brilliant, bright and colourful retrospective exhibition Muestrario (‘Samples’) at La Casa Encendida in Madrid. Here is the catalogue, with a substantial and representative selection of Londoño’s intricate and surreal sketches throughout his career: Since 1997, Londoño has kept drawing notebooks based on reading a […]
I generally wish I could be in Los Angeles, but even more so this Thursday March 12th for Prof. John Van Sickle’s talk Picturing Virgil’s Pastorals in Graphic Novel Style at the USC Dornsife Department of Classics. Prof. Van Sickle, who teaches Classics at Brooklyn College and Comparative Literature at CUNY, has devoted his career […]
O art swifter than pneuma! – Anth. Pal. 16. 54a (epigram on Myron’s bronze statue of the runner Ladas) ‘In his readings about Greek thought, Chan was struck by the word pneuma. “For the Greeks, pneuma, breath, is the same as the word for spirit,” he tells me. “It’s the breath that engenders life. You […]
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“What looks like destruction is really just ‘disposal’, getting something out of sight and out of mind. It still is.” (Brad Inwood on Empedocles Fragment 18/DK 12) Next week I will be going to Milan for the opening of the new William E. Jones exhibition at Galleria Raffaella Cortese. The exhibition presents works, in two […]
While I am not there to see them for myself, I am proud to report that George Segal’s sculpture Circus Acrobats (1988) have now been installed in the Ohio Union at Ohio State University. Thanks to this generous gift to the university from The George and Helen Segal Foundation, generations of OSU students can now […]