Opening this weekend is Paul Chan’s new exhibition Hippias Minor at the DESTE Foundation project space, the Slaughterhouse on the Greek island of Hydra. I have been honoured to have been a part of this exhibition in the form of the new book Hippias Minor or the Art of Cunning, published by DESTE and Chan’s […]
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On hearing the sad news of the artist Chris Burden’s death, I wanted to dedicate a post to his work and, for obvious reasons, his monstrous 1990 sculpture Medusa’s Head seems to be the most fitting choice for Minus Plato. Chris Burden, Medusa’s Head, 1990. Plywood, steel, cement, rock, model railroad trains and tracks Margalit […]
Post Credits: Title: from Roberto Bolaño ‘The Robot‘ from The Unknown University (New Directions, translation by Laura Healy), to read the whole poem, visit here. Images: from visit to ARCHIVO BOLAÑO 1977-2013, Matadero, Madrid, April 2015, for more information, visit here. Disclaimer: for why these drawings are ‘pseudo’ Classical, read Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and […]
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 […]
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 […]