Morgan Meis

PhD, Philosophy, New School for Social Research at collegeforcreativestudies.edu

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Articles

Howard Eiland: Walter Benjamin

5 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | Morgan Meis
Benjamin And The Angel Of History

5 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | Morgan Meis

Lawrence Weschler at Wondercabinet: My recent fortnight in Berlin was replete with its usual share of artwalk splendors-the permanent display of room after room of paintings by the incomparable Adolph Menzel at the Alte Nationalgalerie (though actually not so incomparable as all that, Michael Fried in his book on the artist has suggested that Menzel was one of the three great masters of nineteenth century realism, being to Prussia what Courbet was to France and Eakins to the United States,...
The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf

5 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | Morgan Meis

Zoe Guttenplan at Literary Review: In the middle of March 1931, Virginia Woolf wrote a polite letter to a woman sixteen years her junior. The recipient, a feminist writer named Winifred Holtby, was embarking on a book-length study of Woolf's work. 'I should much prefer that the book should be, as you say written impersonally, from material in the British Museum,' Woolf wrote.
Listening Closely to John Adams

1 week ago | 3quarksdaily.com | Morgan Meis

Chris Cohen at The Nation:Unlike the other usual contenders for the title of greatest living American composer, who rose up out of lofts and art galleries (Glass, Reich) or Hollywood recording studios (John Williams), Adams is a denizen of the concert hall and the opera house-the restless maximalism of his greatest works is at its best live, heard with undivided attention.
David Salle Talks About Painting

1 week ago | 3quarksdaily.com | Morgan Meis
The Radical Development of an Entirely New Painkiller

1 week ago | 3quarksdaily.com | Morgan Meis

Rivka Galchen at The New Yorker:Pain might flicker, flash, prickle, drill, lancinate, pinch, cramp, tug, scald, sear, or itch. It might be blinding, or gruelling, or annoying, and it might, additionally, radiate, squeeze, or tear with an intensity that is mild, distressing, or excruciating. Yet understanding someone else's pain is like understanding another person's dream. The dreamer searches out the right words to communicate it; the words are always insufficient and imprecise.
Uncovering Jack Whitten's Mysterious Abstractions

1 week ago | 3quarksdaily.com | Morgan Meis
Jack Whitten: The Messenger

1 week ago | 3quarksdaily.com | Morgan Meis

Clifford Thompson at Commonweal:Why abstract art? The question is not rhetorical, especially as a point of entry into the visionary work of Jack Whitten, whose career spanned six decades before he died in 2018. One possible answer: the need to say what cannot be said according to the usual rules-rules for perspective, light, scale, and all the rest, but also, and maybe most importantly, rules for representing the world in a way that the world has already recognized.
The Levellers - 3 Quarks Daily

1 week ago | 3quarksdaily.com | Morgan Meis

Rowan Wilson at Aeon Magazine:In April 1649, the earth of St George's Hill in Surrey, England, was disturbed. A group of men and women calling themselves the 'True Levellers', known to history as the 'Diggers', had taken to the 'wast[e] ground' in the parish of Walton to protest enclosure, the process by which common land was parcelled into units of private property, stripping commoners of their traditional rights of access and usage.
John Koethe: The Self in Oscillation

1 week ago | 3quarksdaily.com | Morgan Meis