Prof. Sam Ben-Meir - Archive

A Painterly Dialogue: Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ouattara Watts at the Currier Museum By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, December 20, 2024
Freeing America from the Quagmire of Inequality By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, June 22, 2024
To Let Suffering Speak: “Why Art Exists”. Käthe Kollwitz on the Nature of Feminism and Class Struggle at the Museum of Modern Art By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, May 03, 2024
We Already Have Effective Socialized Medicine: Now Universalize It By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, January 24, 2024
Painting and Revolution: Manet and Degas at the Metropolitan Museum of New York By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, January 04, 2024
Thinker, Poet, Philosopher Giordano Bruno Devoted to the Truth, condemned by the Roman Inquisition, 475 Years Later By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, August 01, 2023
The Riots in France as Seen Through the ‘Long Take’ By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, July 21, 2023
Dancing Waters: Rita Blitt at Mulvane Art Museum By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, June 06, 2023
“Rescuing Philosophy from Academic Irrelevance”: Images of the Present Time (2023) by Alain Badiou By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, May 04, 2023
Pottery, Poetry, and Protest: “Hear Me Now” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, January 18, 2023
Pyotr Kropotkin, 180 Years Later By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, December 20, 2022
Culture and the Arts: ‘King Pleasure’ Lives Up to Its Name. Jean-Michel Basquiat By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, November 30, 2022
American Ceramics at the Metropolitan Museum of Art By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, October 19, 2022
Culture and the Arts: “Philip Guston Now” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Art By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, August 26, 2022
Gun Violence, Leading Cause of Death Among Children. Repeal the Second Amendment, Palladium of Death By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, June 22, 2022
Harmonious Magic: Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) at the Boston Museum of Fine Art By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, June 07, 2022
Charles Ray at the Metropolitan Museum of Art By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, June 01, 2022
The Art of Transformation: Vasily Kandinsky at the Guggenheim By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, April 21, 2022
History of Art: Philip Guston and Musa McKim at the Currier Museum: “What can be done when America Invests in its Workers and its Artists” By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, January 12, 2022
The Configuration of Sensation: Paul Cézanne’s Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, June 30, 2021
Human Folly and the Nature of Evil: Francisco Goya at the Metropolitan Museum of Art By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, March 16, 2021
Black History Month: Reflections on the Tuskegee Study and Its Moral Harm By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, February 16, 2021
Humanism in Painting: Remembering the Art of Symeon Shimin. NY Whitney Museum By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, January 27, 2021
Art as Liberation: The Mexican Muralists at the New York Whitney Museum By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, January 15, 2021
The Painter as Hooligan: Adrian Ghenie at New York’s Pace Gallery By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, December 22, 2020
Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: Félix Fénéon at the Museum of Modern Art By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, December 01, 2020
Struggle: The History of the American People (1954-56). Jacob Lawrence at The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, October 16, 2020
“Material Ecology”: Neri Oxman at the New York Museum of Modern Art By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, October 06, 2020
Rio Tinto Mining and the Destruction of Aboriginal Juukan Cave Heritage. A Loss to Humanity By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, September 22, 2020
End Life Sentences for Non-Violent Crimes By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, September 01, 2020
Spontaneous Lines: The Art of Rita Blitt. A Yes to Life, A Yes to the World… Art is Life By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, August 18, 2020
What Is Morally Wrong with Discrimination? A Kantian Analysis By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, July 28, 2020
Today’s Movement for Racial Justice. The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, June 11, 2020
The Unfolding Catastrophe. What Can Hegel Teach Us Today? By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, May 28, 2020
Social Crisis and the Public Use of Reason By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, April 09, 2020
The Communist Manifesto Turns 172 By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, February 14, 2020
Painter of Disquiet: Félix Vallotton at the Metropolitan Museum of Art By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, January 14, 2020
Art and Defacement: Basquiat at the Guggenheim By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, August 08, 2019
Morality and Animal Rights: What Is “Ethical Interanimality”? By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, April 17, 2019
Painting as Metaphysics: Hilma af Klint and the Birth of Abstract Art By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, March 14, 2019
A New Despotism in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, February 19, 2019
The Spirit of Romanticism: Eugène Delacroix at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, December 12, 2018
Rembrandt at the Scottish National Gallery By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, October 10, 2018
Exploring the Human Figure: Klimt and Schiele at New York’s Neue Galerie, Two of Austria’s Greatest Artists By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, August 15, 2018
An Artist for Dark Times: Giacometti at New York’s Guggenheim Museum By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, July 12, 2018
Truth in Painting: Cezanne’s Portraits at Washington’s National Gallery of Art By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, June 13, 2018
Is There an Alternative to Global Capitalism? By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, June 06, 2018
Trumpism and the Value of Truth. Donald Trump’s “Addiction to Lying”. The Onslaught of “Post Truth” By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, June 01, 2018
Art Review: In the Flesh, Chaim Soutine at the Jewish Museum in New York City. “The Transitivity between Humans and Animals” By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, May 11, 2018
American Arcadia: Thomas Cole at the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vanishing Beauty of Untrammeled Wilderness By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, April 25, 2018
Trials of the Flesh: Extraordinary Painter with New Eyes, Caravaggio in Milan By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, November 22, 2017
Envisioning the Divine: Mexican Artist Villalpando at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, September 20, 2017
Art, Music and History, The View From Above: Vienna at a Glance By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, September 06, 2017
Abraham and the Angels: Rembrandt at New York’s Frick Collection By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, August 01, 2017
Climate Change and the Catastrophe of Trumpism By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, July 25, 2017
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Anatomy of Suffering By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, June 09, 2017
Freedom and Form: French Impressionist Painter Frédéric Bazille at the National Gallery By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, May 02, 2017
Revisiting the Oracle: Artist J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) at the Frick Collection in New York City By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, March 21, 2017
Francis Picabia: A Painter for This Moment By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, February 24, 2017
Guido Cagnacci’s “Death of Cleopatra” (c. 1645) in New York By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, January 10, 2017