Open Ended: Chaos, creation and other dilemmas at the Urban Arts Space

13th October 2015Albert Oehlen, Christopher Williams, Cindy Sherman, Classics 2220H 2015, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Marlene Dumas, Open this End, OSU Urban Arts Space, Robert Gober, Sherrie Levine, Teaching OSUMinus Plato

In my Classics 2220H: Classical Mythology/Contemporary Art class last week, each of the students delivered presentations that connected their exploration of myths of creation, love and art with individual art works from the exhibition Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne at the OSU Urban Arts Space here in Columbus. Leaving […]

Dear CS, Warmest, CS: Some Epicurean Letters

12th June 2014Ann McCoy, Brooklyn Rail, Christopher Stackhouse, Cindy Sherman, EpicureanismMinus Plato

On being generously invited by Ann McCoy to contribute a brief essay to the June issue of The Brooklyn Rail that she edited on the topic of the unconscious in contemporary art, I chose to write about how the Epicurean conception of the unconscious, via the work of the Roman poet and philosopher, Lucretius, can […]