Eurydice Eve A Description of my Art The common theory of Egyptian art is that it only begins to represent ordinary life rather than gods, pharaohs and queens when a sandstone sculpture places one foot in front of the other. Motion signifies human existence. Humans move, therefore there is history…

If we can’t laugh at ourselves, we are stuck in digital chaos. Eurydice Eve The healthiest laughter is at our own foibles. This thought struck me as I watched Dave Chappelle tiptoe through our modern verbal minefield during his SNL monologue last Saturday. His balancing act of mass self-ridicule was…

For a talk that will focus on two of the most notorious nudes in art history, I will begin by recalling that for the nude to constitute a provocation, human society must prefer its concealment. Why it does is the topic of a book I have written, but it is…

Art begins to represent ordinary life, rather than gods and goddesses, pharaohs and queens, when an Egyptian scuplture made of sandstone places one foot in front of the other. Motion signifies life. Humans move, therefore there is history. In a similar sense, the frescoes on the walls of Minoan palaces…

In Our Cultural War Of Words, Meaning Matters. Aristophanes Taught Him Well Aristophanes Taught Him Well:

In graduate school, I read Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, then I read Martin Heidegger in order to read Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, then I read Ludwig Wittgenstein in order to read Martin Heidegger in order to read Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, then I read Friedrich Nietzsche in order to read Ludwig Wittgenstein in order to read Martin Heidegger in order to read Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, then I read Georg Hegel in order to read Friedrich Nietzsche in order to read Ludwig Wittgenstein in order to read Martin Heidegger in order to read Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, then I read Immanuel Kant in order to read Georg Hegel in order to read Friedrich Nietzsche in order to read Ludwig Wittgenstein in order to read Martin Heidegger in order to read Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida; then I read Baruch Spinoza in order to read Immanuel Kant in order to read Georg Hegel in order to read Friedrich Nietzsche in order to read Ludwig Wittgenstein in order to read Martin Heidegger in order to read Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida; then I read René Descartes in order to read Baruch Spinoza in order to read Immanuel Kant in order to read Georg Hegel in order to read Friedrich Nietzsche in order to read Ludwig Wittgenstein in order to read Martin Heidegger in order to read Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida; then I read Francis Bacon in order to read René Descartes in order to read Baruch Spinoza in order to read Immanuel Kant in order to read Georg Hegel in order to read Friedrich Nietzsche in order to read Ludwig Wittgenstein in order to read Martin Heidegger in order to read Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida; then I read Erasmus in order to read Francis Bacon in order to read René Descartes in order to read Baruch Spinoza in order to read Immanuel Kant in order to read Georg Hegel in order to read Friedrich Nietzsche in order to read Ludwig Wittgenstein in order to read Martin Heidegger in order to read Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida; then I read Duns Scotus in order to read Erasmus in order to read Francis Bacon in order to read René Descartes in order to read Baruch Spinoza in order to read Immanuel Kant in order to read Georg Hegel in order to read Friedrich Nietzsche in order to read Ludwig Wittgenstein in order to read Martin Heidegger in order to read Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida; then I read Thomas Aquinas in order to read Duns Scotus in order to read Erasmus in order to read Francis Bacon in order to read René Descartes in order to read Baruch Spinoza in order to read Immanuel Kant in order to read Georg Hegel in order to read Friedrich Nietzsche in order to read Ludwig Wittgenstein in order to read Martin Heidegger in order to read Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida; then I read Augustine of Hippo in order to read Thomas Aquinas in order to read Duns Scotus in order to read Erasmus in order to read Francis Bacon in order to read René Descartes in order to read Baruch Spinoza in order to read Immanuel Kant in order to read Georg Hegel in order to read Friedrich Nietzsche in order to read Ludwig Wittgenstein in order to read Martin Heidegger in order to read Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida; then I read Plotinus in order to read Augustine of Hippo in order to read Thomas Aquinas in order to read Duns Scotus in order to read Erasmus in order to read Francis Bacon in order to read René Descartes in order to read Baruch Spinoza in order to read Immanuel Kant in order to read Georg Hegel in order to read Friedrich Nietzsche in order to read Ludwig Wittgenstein in order to read Martin Heidegger in order to read Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida; then I read Epicurus in order to read Plotinus in order to read Augustine of Hippo in order to read Thomas Aquinas in order to read

I use a folk art associated with female silence and oppression to expose the taboo female body and the political turmoil happening around it. I embroider women captured in positions of powerlessness and extreme vulnerability, in compositions further broadcast by stencils and mass-culture tags. I resist the puritanism of institutionalized…

The first cultural content is faith. For the last 5–6 thousand years during which humans have organized as patriarchies, millions of us have repeatedly and at great cost rebelled against successions of repressive regimes set up to ensure the perpetuation of the social structure; yet every social restructure proceeded to…

Culture is a manmade recreation of nature, the imaginative reenactment of the systems and the mysteries of nature and the body. The model is Mother Nature. The model for ‘romantic love’ is the mother’s natural selfless love; a love so primordial that it feels as strong as species’ need for…