Will others see a Peacock? Ovid’s Argus, Blixen’s Stork and Frances Stark

10th February 2017Adriana Cavarero, Argus, Frances Stark, Karen Blixen, Minus Plato Today, Ovid, PeacockArgus, Frances Stark, Karen Blixen, OvidMinus Plato

Arge, iaces, quodque in tot lumina lumen habebas, exstinctum est, centumque oculos nox occupat una. excipit hos volucrisque suae Saturnia pennis collocat et gemmis caudam stellantibus inplet. Argus, you are overthrown, the light of your many eyes is extinguished, and one night sleeps under so many eyelids. Juno took his eyes and set them into […]

After Rome: Amy Sillman’s iPad Ovid

8th January 2017Amy Sillman, Metamorphoses, Minus Plato Today, OvidAmerican Academy in Rome, Amy Sillman, OvidMinus Plato

Opening on January 20th (can’t think of anything else important happening that day…) at the Drawing Center is Amy Sillman’s new exhibition After Metamorphoses. It comprises an animated drawing (with soundtrack) that she made on the iPad inspired by the mythic tales of change, desire and power from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. While I need to wait […]