I have just visited the Colombian artist José Antonio Suárez Londoño’s brilliant, bright and colourful retrospective exhibition Muestrario (‘Samples’) at La Casa Encendida in Madrid. Here is the catalogue, with a substantial and representative selection of Londoño’s intricate and surreal sketches throughout his career: Since 1997, Londoño has kept drawing notebooks based on reading a […]
I generally wish I could be in Los Angeles, but even more so this Thursday March 12th for Prof. John Van Sickle’s talk Picturing Virgil’s Pastorals in Graphic Novel Style at the USC Dornsife Department of Classics. Prof. Van Sickle, who teaches Classics at Brooklyn College and Comparative Literature at CUNY, has devoted his career […]
O art swifter than pneuma! – Anth. Pal. 16. 54a (epigram on Myron’s bronze statue of the runner Ladas) ‘In his readings about Greek thought, Chan was struck by the word pneuma. “For the Greeks, pneuma, breath, is the same as the word for spirit,” he tells me. “It’s the breath that engenders life. You […]
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“What looks like destruction is really just ‘disposal’, getting something out of sight and out of mind. It still is.” (Brad Inwood on Empedocles Fragment 18/DK 12) Next week I will be going to Milan for the opening of the new William E. Jones exhibition at Galleria Raffaella Cortese. The exhibition presents works, in two […]
While I am not there to see them for myself, I am proud to report that George Segal’s sculpture Circus Acrobats (1988) have now been installed in the Ohio Union at Ohio State University. Thanks to this generous gift to the university from The George and Helen Segal Foundation, generations of OSU students can now […]
Guerrilla Girls, Battle Of The Sexes, project for the New Yorker, 1996, 12 x 18 in. Pomona College Collection. Museum purchase with funds provided by the Estate of Walter and Elise Mosher. I’m excited about visiting the new Guerilla Girls exhibition this weekend here in Madrid at the Matadero: Guerrilla Girls: 1985-2015. At the same […]
– I mean I just saw an advance review of your art book, some half-ass critic takes it apart.Valentine paused, lighting a cigarette. He held the match before him, looking at the flame. then he blew it out. – How do you mean, takes it apart? – He takes your own words out of it, and […]
Selection of Donald Judd’s Loeb Classical Library in his library The online Faculty Bookshelf is becoming a common feature of university department websites, and Classics is no exception. These virtual bookshelves vary in how they create (or should I say, curate) an image of the collective intellectual achievements of the Faculty, ranging from the glamorous […]
Here in Madrid, although it is possible to watch the Jean-Luc Godard’s new film Adieu au langage (Goodbye to Language) at a cinema (the same cannot be said for many countries!), sadly it is not being shown in 3D, as the director intended (see this article Godard en 3D sin 3D). So, in the end, […]