The OSU Undergraduate Classics Club and the next Rough Draft event bring Pittsburgh-based cartoonist Frank Santoro to Columbus on March 17th for a day of exciting events. As part of his visit, he’ll be speaking about the composition of his recent book Pompeii in our own Billy Ireland Cartoon Library. Here’s the poster for the […]
Our OSU Humanities Institute Pilot Working Group Rough Draft got off to a great start yesterday with the event Constellations: Mapping Space. Dani Leventhal and I introduced four short talks on a wide range of topics from an eclectic group of speakers whose research or creative work all involved the idea of mapping the night […]
This Friday (Feb. 21st) is the inaugural event of the Ohio State Humanities Institute Pilot Working Group Rough Draft that I have created with Dani Leventhal (OSU Art Dept). It is an interdisciplinary colloquium called Constellations: Mapping Space that explores the visualizing methods for representing the night sky in the Humanities, Arts and beyond. A […]
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 […]
On the last page of the current issue of BOMB magazine, I encountered two strange sketches: one a giant monster with its nails being manicured by an army of cosmeticians, and the other a centaur-actor on a film-set, surrounded by half sheep, half man director and crew. : These bizarre drawings belong to Japanese, New […]
Dani Leventhal (OSU Dept. of Art) and I have just found out that our proposal for an OSU Humanities Institute Pilot Working Group has been accepted for this Semester.The group is called Rough Draft and will explore the theory and practice of incorporating contemporary practices of the visual methods of drawing, mapping and diagramming in […]
Fresh from my flying visit to Los Angeles for the opening of William E. Jones: Heralitus Fragment 124, Automatically Illustrated at the David Kordansky Gallery, I thought I would share with you a couple of thoughts about how I translated the fragment, which William E. Jones transformed into one of the works in the exhibition […]
Here is a shameless plug for the upcoming William E. Jones exhibition, for which I contributed an essay for the catalogue. Also, William and I will be having a conversation before the opening – this Saturday January 11th – on the topic of ‘Heraclitus in Limbo’. If there are any L.A.-based Classicists out there, it […]