I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT LEE LOZANO (HENCE THE CAPS) SPECIFICALLY HER DIALOGUE PIECE (STARTED APRIL 21, 1969) WRITE-UP, JUNE 12, 1969 HERE IT IS: (NOTE THE PLACE OF DIALOGUE; IT MAY BECOME SIGNIFICANT LATER) DIALOGUE PIECE HAS ALTERNATIVE TITLE: VERBALL AS LOZANO WROTE IN A NOTE IN VERSION IN HER NOTEBOOK “DEFINITION OF “DIALOGUE” REMAINS […]
Thesis, the Ohio State Department of Art MFA Third-Year Exhibition, opened today at the Urban Arts Space downtown and I have just resurfaced after immersing myself within it. While I don’t want to make too hasty a generalization, I immediately wanted to write a Minus Plato post about Thesis because the experience of the exhibition […]
Working in the Wexner Heirloom Cafe, sitting with my laptop as I prepare for classes and answer emails, also means that I am lucky enough to be interrupted by compelling conversations about contemporary art. It just so happened today that I was reminded of the ancient myth of the apple of discord by two completely […]
Yesterday I visited the new exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art – A Dangerous Woman: Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer. It was a revelation and, as a Classicist, I was immediately struck by Sharrer’s feminist reworkings of Greek and Roman myths, often mediated by art historical predecessors. I am sure […]
Arge, iaces, quodque in tot lumina lumen habebas, exstinctum est, centumque oculos nox occupat una. excipit hos volucrisque suae Saturnia pennis collocat et gemmis caudam stellantibus inplet. Argus, you are overthrown, the light of your many eyes is extinguished, and one night sleeps under so many eyelids. Juno took his eyes and set them into […]
I will return in a future post to the 1980s, specifically to the shift from the appropriation practices of the early years of the decade (e.g. Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine) to the participatory art of its end (e.g. Group Material, Felix Gonzalez-Torres), and what happened to the question of sexual difference in the process. I […]
Continuing the thread of my last few posts on 1980s appropriation, I wanted to focus on Sherrie Levine and her 1981 work Untitled (After Edward Weston). But rather than simply reproduce and comment on her work here, I wanted to offer you a series of images that point to and expand on the spirit of […]
Following Louise Lawler for Art after Modernism, the New Museum and MIT series ‘Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art’ continued to commission artists as photo editors for their future volumes. Barbara Bloom selected the images for the second volume – Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists, while John Baldessari included a photographic sketchbook […]
Yesterday I discussed the question of ‘Who Speaks for Sappho?’ and Louise Lawler’s work that extends the ‘mansplaining’ ‘of Sappho’s poetry into a general critique of patriarchy. Today let’s take one example of the very literal ‘mansplaining’ of ancient Roman poets – Catullus 51 as a remake of Sappho 31 (here are the translations of […]
