Ara Merjian

Oct 4, 2024 | artnews.com | Ara Merjian

“O was an otter / who slept in the same bed with this young man, / and there was never an odder otter.” Above this verse by Ralph Thomas Ward winds a single sinuous line, tracing two male silhouettes united in the prelude to a kiss or a tender tête-à-tête.

Aug 10, 2023 | versobooks.com | T. J. Clark |Alessandro Giammei |Ara Merjian |Jacques Rancière

Blog postDaniel Ward interviews art historian T. J. Clark about Pier Paolo Pasolini, neorealism, the influence of the Communist Party on post-war Italian culture and the recently published collection of Pasolini writing on painting,Heretical Aesthetics. T. J. Clark and Dan Ward Daniel Ward: I feel I can only begin speaking with you about film, and Pasolini in particular, by asking about some closing lines from your book Farewell to an Idea.