On view: "Where Do We Stand? Two Years of Drawing with Open Sessions" is the second whole-group exhibition of the Open Sessions program. Wed-Sun 12-6pm | Thurs 12-8pm. 〰〰 In the second or third century CE, a crude drawing was scratched into the plaster wall of an imperial page school in Rome, depicting a person interacting with a crucified figure with the head of an ass; the accompanying inscription can be translated as “Alexamenos worships his god.” Scholars interpret this graffito as part of a wave of anti-Christian sentiment during this period, including the charge that Christians worshipped an ass-headed god, a libel that had been formerly deployed against Jews. In his “Apologeticus”(197 C.E.), the Christian scholar Tertullian offers this response to charges of onolatry: “If the image we cherish is a freak, it doesn't really matter what kind of freak.” Rafael Kelman’s reimagining of the Alexamenos Graffito might serve as a stumbling block for those complicit in the persecution of ...