Apollo’s Lyre and Pandora’s Box: Douglas Crimp on the Neoconservative Museum

7th November 2017Minus Plato TodayApollo, documenta 7, Douglas Crimp, MoMA, Museum, neoconservative, Pandora, ZeitgeistMinus Plato

In preparation for his talk at the Wexner Center for the Arts next week, I have been reading Douglas Crimp’s On the Museum’s Ruins. The book, published in 1993, gathers together essays that Crimp had previously published (especially in October) in the 1980s, alongside a selection of Louise Lawler’s photographs. Mid-way through the introduction (“Photography […]

You are not the Problem: Ketty La Rocca’s “Pandora”

10th October 2017Minus Plato TodayHesiod, Ketty La Rocca, Luce Irigaray, Pandora, Sigmund Freud, Vered Lev KenaanMinus Plato

Today some men told me “you are the problem” and suddenly I was transported back to Freud’s 1932 lecture on femininity: Throughout history people have knocked their heads against the riddle of femininity. Nor will you have escaped worrying over this problem – those of you who are men; to those of you who are […]