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 […]
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 […]