12/31/2020
Category: Idle Chatter
Field notes on arts, culture, and everything else from our critic-at-large.
07/15/2015
How To Remain Human
In Cleveland, the ghost of d.a. levy is everywhere, even animating MOCA Cleveland's summer show. But what is it that makes the poet's legacy endure?
by Morgan Meis
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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