From his initial site visit, [Jimmie Durham] was drawn to gallery B with its triangular floor plan and erratic ceiling heights, which make it simultaneously intimate and expansive. – Will/Power catalogue (1993) 11. the gallery B side is an online community fanzine for gallery B at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. […]
1. He is still Here (Wexner Center for the Arts) 2. Lala Rukh’s ‘The Unholy Trinity’ (documenta Halle) 3. The House of the Falling Man (Columbus Museum of Art)
I didn’t catch Moldovan artist Pavel Brăila’s The Ship in Kassel during documenta 14. According to the description in the exhibition’s guidebook and website, The Ship: takes the form of a public bus roaming the city streets of Kassel. Appearing as though half-submerged in seawater, the bus is an appropriation of the Stultifera Navis, or […]
On page 106 of No Philosopher King: An Everyday Guide to Art and Life under Trump (which you can order now from Amazon or Barnes & Noble), at the beginning of Chapter 5 (‘Media/Medea/Medya’), you can read: [c]onsider the book you are now holding. If this is a blog to book situation, how did the […]
Last episode I left you with Cornel West. He was speaking about the blues as part of the exhibition Blues for Smoke, which was on show here in Columbus at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2013 at the same time as Chris Marker’s Le Joli Mai, with its concluding poetic call for the […]
The current exhibition Gray Matters at the Wexner Center for the Arts brings together 37 contemporary artists (all women) who across a variety of media and processes have produced vibrant work out of the unassumingly neutral palette of black, white and gray. Curator Michael Goodson, writing in the handsomely produced gallery-guide, designed by Erica Anderson […]
Working in the Wexner Heirloom Cafe, sitting with my laptop as I prepare for classes and answer emails, also means that I am lucky enough to be interrupted by compelling conversations about contemporary art. It just so happened today that I was reminded of the ancient myth of the apple of discord by two completely […]
I just brought my class on ancient philosophical ideas of happiness and the good life to see the new film by Brazilian artist Jonathas de Andrade in The Box at the Wexner Center. The short, 7-minute film, O Caseiro (The Caretaker), is a split screen account of two very different lives and daily routines. On […]
Constantine Cavafy’s famous poem Ithaka transforms the singular event of Odysseus’ nostos to his home on the rugged island of Ithaka into a symbolic, repeatable experience epitomized by understanding what ‘Ithakas’ plural mean. Here is the final two stanzas of the poem: Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey. Without her you wouldn’t have set out. […]