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 […]
Louise Lawler Monogram — Arranged by Mr. and Mrs. Burton Termaine, New York City 1984 ‘the resources of the emperor allowed for the display of enormous public collections. But the emperors themselves were avid private collectors of art works and historical artefacts…Augustus’ private collection was an eclectic array of artistic, historic and natural objects that […]
The poem ‘Latina’ in poet & artist Christopher Stackhouse’s recent collection Plural (Counterpath press) opens with the following perplexing stanza: Vis-à-vis curricula per – pro forma, mere gesticulationto reverb, to chorus – I know that is it not fair on either the author of a poem, the poem itself or its readers to […]
My Father was accustomed to say, “we must begin by the beginning.” So, I must begin this lecture about the subject of art by its beginning. But, what is this beginning? I think we have to begin with the oldest question—the question of being, the question of being as being, of being qua being. What […]
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 […]