While this work [Caliban’s Mask] was made by Durham in 1992 to ‘celebrate’ the 500 year anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of the Americas, three years later, Durham was invited to mark another anniversary with his work: the foundation of Rome. His tribute to the Eternal City is no less playful and ambivalent than that to […]
This post could have been written on Monday, which saw the celebration of Columbus Day and when my son, Eneko, learned all about the ‘discovery’ of America at school. Yet I am posting it today, October 12th, as the anniversary of the actual day in 1492 that Columbus set sail. In the same issue of […]
Back in 2013 I wrote a Minus Plato post about Jimmie Durham’s Public Monument for the Birthday of Rome, 1995. I was reminded of this work on looking at the catalogue for the Hammer Museum retrospective of Durham’s work Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World, as a picture of Durham’s Rome work, which I had never seen […]