On Wednesday this week the 29 students of my Classical Mythology/Contemporary Art class had the pleasure of visiting the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library – the largest cartoon library on the planet and an amazing place for unique exhibitions, events and workshops as the epicentre for the Columbus cartooning community. It was here that Frank Santoro […]
Three years ago I taught the first manifestation of a Classical Mythology Honors course here at Ohio State that explored the dynamic between Classical Myth and Contemporary Art. At that time, the students encountered a range of artworks using the (then recent) publication Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years in 200 Pivotal Art Works (Phaidon 2012). […]
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 […]
In addition to their Making Myth Projects, where they have to create their own version of the foundation of or epic adventure to the Wexner Center during the last week of the Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil exhibition, the 600+ students in my Classics 2220: Classical Mythology class have an ‘extra credit’ opportunity where they […]
The new Wexner Center Exhibition Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil opens tomorrow (Friday January 31st), which gives me the chance to let you know about an exciting project that I have assigned the 662 (no, that is not a typo!) students in my Classics 2220: Classical Mythology class this semester. In the final section of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Before giving some more details of my latest foray into teaching Classics via Contemporary Art, here is a link to a recently published article in the Ohio State OnCampus newspaper on the so-called ‘Double Take’ phenomena created by Amanda Potter, who runs Educator, Public and University Programs at the Wexner Center for the Arts. http://oncampus.osu.edu/eclectic-pairs/ […]
Now the dust has settled on my experimental class on Classical Mythology/Contemporary Art, I want to make 2 final posts on this topic before moving onto the topic of my next project as part of an Ancient Philosophy course this coming semester (watch this space). This post will merely list the topics and art works […]