Lucian’s work Dialogues of the Dead begins with a dead Diogenes the Cynic asking someone called Pollux to send a message to his fellow Cynic, Menippus, in the upper world. DIOGENES: Pollux, I have a commission for you; next time you go up—and I think it is your turn for earth tomorrow—if you come across […]
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 […]
Last year I visited Brisbane, Australia for a conference called ‘The Classical and the Contemporary’ as part of the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial. Before going I spent some time looking at the artists on the Queensland Art Gallery website and I was immediately drawn to a work by US-Iraqi artist Rheim Alkadhi called The Eye […]
Today the exhibition Come Along With Me opens at the OAC Riffe Gallery here in downtown Columbus. I was invited to curate this group exhibition by the Ohio Art League and it includes 18 artists from the state. Central to the thinking behind the exhibition is how the genre of the ancient philosophical handbook – […]
Today, as hundreds of thousands participate in the Women’s March on Washington and around the world, protesting against the misogyny and bigotry ushered in by yesterday’s inauguration of a misogynist bigot, I am reminded of Nancy Spero’s powerful work that unites modern women with women from ancient cultures (e.g. Egypt, Near-East, Greece). While Spero’s work […]
Tonight Blake Turner’s Manifesto Library published the Minus Plato Manifesto, which I posted in early December last year. But, more importantly, it published two other manifestos that are of more pressing concern than anything presented on this blog. First of all, the Mexican feminist Con Nosotras manifesto, translated by Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza, that calls for an […]
In an earlier Minus Plato post I created a brief photo-essay on Sara VanDerBeek’s Roman Woman series as it appeared in the pages of The Thing Quarterly project The Thing – The Book , which I discovered while browsing in the Tate Modern bookshop. In the conversation with Roxana Marcoci from the recent book Sara […]
