07/15/2015
Category: Idle Chatter
Field notes on arts, culture, and everything else from our critic-at-large.
06/15/2015
Art/Not
The elusiveness of Richard Tuttle's objects can be panic-inducing – until you remember that art doesn't always need a definition.
by Morgan Meis
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05/18/2015
Still Alive
Why photograph Theo Jansen's kinetic sculptures, the Strandbeests? Well, why photograph anything alive?
by Morgan Meis
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05/05/2015
Updike Country
In the semi-rural suburbs of southeastern PA, finding — and living in — Rabbit Angstrom's middle America.
by Morgan Meis
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04/24/2015
The Road to Jerusalem
Highway 1 is a normal highway, winding up the hills from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. And it is anything but a normal highway.
by Morgan Meis
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04/06/2015
The Naipaul Question
In V.S. Naipaul's writing on Conrad, we see who he truly is.
by Morgan Meis
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02/18/2015
Deep Discounts
Red Grooms' kooky transcendence defines, and solves, the problem with Pop Art.
by Morgan Meis
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02/17/2015
The Cretan Paradox
It's riveting and highly influential, but El Greco's work never quite fit. Could the reason lie in his birthplace?
by Morgan Meis
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02/02/2015
Story, Time
In Boyhood, time passes, moments accumulate. The story is just a consequence.
by Morgan Meis
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01/20/2015