While Rome Burns: Jimmie Durham’s The True Story of How Cuban Communists Gained Control of Trump Tower

2nd February 2017Jimmie Durham, Minus Plato Today, Nero, The Suetonius GalleryJimmie Durham, Nero, The Suetonius GalleryMinus Plato

Back in 2013 I wrote a Minus Plato post about Jimmie Durham’s Public Monument for the Birthday of Rome, 1995. I was reminded of this work on looking at the catalogue for the Hammer Museum retrospective of Durham’s work Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World, as a picture of Durham’s Rome work, which I had never seen […]

Piles of Interesting Trash: Jimmie Durham and the Monuments

29th December 2013Jimmie Durham, Rome, Wexner Center for the ArtsMinus Plato

As I was soaking up the last day of the Wexner Center’s wonderful Blues for Smoke exhibition today, I finally had a moment to pay closer attention to one of the works that had intrigued me in previous, rushed visits: Jimmie Durham’s The Caliban Codex. Jimmie Durham Caliban’s Mask, 1992 In a sequence of diary […]