Author: Morgan Meis

Morgan Meis has a PhD in Philosophy and is a founding member of Flux Factory, an arts collective in New York. He has written for n+1, The Believer, Harper’s Magazine, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. He won the Whiting Award in 2013. Morgan is also an editor at 3 Quarks Daily, and a winner of a Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant. A book of Morgan's selected essays can be found here. He can be reached at morganmeis@gmail.com.
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04/15/2013

Heart of Lightness

The late Chinua Achebe leveled some serious criticisms at Joseph Conrad — but perhaps, the two authors are simply opposites.

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03/19/2013

Art at the Altar

Piero della Francesca, painter and mathematician, used every trick he had to move his viewers, both literally and figuratively.

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02/25/2013

Do Not Open Until

An exhibit encapsulating 1993 also captures the freedom, and the anxiety, of post-historical art.

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02/13/2013

Transcending Matter

The Ashcan painters may have “lost” most battles during their time, but we should remember them by their goal: to paint the force of life.

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02/04/2013

Outside the Lines

The Abstract painters blurred the boundary between science and spiritual, and aimed to portray the essence of reality through color.

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01/02/2013

The Mystery of Faith

In creating a work that portrays real internal struggle and transformation, Caravaggio converted painting.

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