🎥 The Long View #003 with Celeste Marcus is now available on YouTube and Spotify! Michael Kimmage and Celeste Marcus discuss the life and art of Chaim Soutine and the themes that shaped his work. Watch or listen here: ▶️YouTube: youtu.be/pa_33KAlrxQ 🎙️Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/16Au...

"[Marcus] treats her subject with the intimacy and admiration of a friend." Read the latest review of Celeste Marcus's new biography of the artist Chaim Soutine in @wsj.com! Learn more: bit.ly/4oBZ1nQ

The blood-dripping Jew as metaphor In the United States, an ancient hatred is coming to the fore @celestemarcus.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/religi...

"The American people, like the rest of the world, can see that our government has no respect for humanity. America deserves a liberal leadership that is not toothless in response to our national perversion." libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

The good people at @readliberties.bsky.social let me write up the highlights and misfires of this year's NYFF: libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

Anyway you can always be listening to this www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf_z...

The Israeli government prefers a weakened Hamas in a besieged Gaza, to any alternative administration (including a neo-colonial one run by Blair). A besieged, impoverished, ruined and unstable Gaza leaves open the prospect of ethnic cleansing and occupation.

Don’t read this for my sake—my future is all used up. Read it for Kenneth Fearing, Alfred Hayes, and Weldon Kees. They’ve still got it. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

Grateful to share my new essay in Liberties Journal, “Sewn Close to Pascal’s Heart.” A meditation on doubt, faith, and the ache of thinking deeply: libertiesjournal.com/articles/sew... Honored to be published alongside writers I’ve long admired. #writing #philosophy #spirituality

My essay, Zion, about being in Shangri-La Tibet on October 7th 2023, is now up at Liberties Journal @readliberties. 
I wrote about my despair and about trying to hold on to hope. Because, really, what do we have but hope? 
 Read the full essay at libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

Here, have 6000 words on Yasunari Kawabata: libertiesjournal.com/articles/the...

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Join Morten Høi Jensen and @celestemarcus.bsky.social on Zoom, Tuesday, September 30th at 12 PMEST/6PM CST to discuss Celeste's essay from the recent issue "The Other Obliteration: A Report from the West Bank"

Imagine viewing a child’s dreams as a threat. The Sea, a film about a Palestinian boy who just wants to see the beach won Israel’s top film prize and will represent the country at the Oscars. So the government cut all funding from Israeli film academy. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

We're hiring! For the full listing: libertiesjournal.com/assistant-pu...

From Ihab Hassan's recent essay for @readliberties.bsky.social

'The people of Gaza have never been in greater need of international intervention. They need help— not only from Israel, from Hamas too. Recognizing a Palestinian State is not a reward for violence; it is the conclusion of a sincere dedication to statecraft.' libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

"It is possible for bleeding worlds to be buried and forgotten. It is possible for hope and political prudence to fuse and forge a future worth living for, a future of hope, a future where children expect the sun to rise and set without the sounds of sirens or the sight of bludgeoned corpses."

Jared Marcel Pollen (not on here, I don't think) also recently wrote an excellent piece on Weiss for @readliberties.bsky.social libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

“Benton’s preoccupations with American style seem so foreign because they have so little relevance to our own time. Establishing something that was an “American art” proved to be an obsession for artists of the first four decades of the 20th century” libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

Jesús Escalona has no criminal record in the US or Venezuela. ICE labeled him a "documented" gang member. Per a police report, it appears to stem from a border checkpoint in Guatemala, where Jesús said he was stopped by local police—and US authorities—while migrating to Texas🧵

Polanski's screenings at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social are packed and lines to get tickets stretch around the corner. Why? libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

"By the mid-1930s, Benton may well have been the most famous artist in America and perhaps the best paid. However, Benton was to live another 38 years, and during that time much of the certainties of his world evaporated and his reputation went with them." libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

15 y/o American citizen being held in Israeli prison with no rights write to your representatives to demand his release support.adc.org/a/mohammed-i...

Interesting piece by @jo-ann.bsky.social on why Alfred Dreyfus is everywhere. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

A magnificent article. About impossible choices, powerlessness, and humiliation in dictatorial states. And inner decency as exile. With vivid descriptions of how differently and laboriously various known artists had and have to cope. by Ian Buruma libertiesjournal.com/articles/sta...

Charles Taylor on Polanksi -- this essay is brilliant libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

This episode with Morten Hoi Jensen & Ben Libman, about Ben's book The Third Solitude, is such a high level pleasure -- two beautifully studied, thoughtful people discussing what we owe history, & how we can acquit ourselves of that duty without being enslaved to it open.spotify.com/episode/0RWB...

We are all being forced to think about mass-starvation now -- but what happens when Israeli policy succeeds, and Gaza and the West Bank are empty of Palestinians, whether because they are dead or ethnically cleansed? We won't be reading about genocide because it will be complete

Very grateful to have this piece in one of the best journals: Liberties. Thank you to @celestemarcus.bsky.social @readliberties.bsky.social libertiesjournal.com/articles/nig...

A wonderful piece. About art and politics, resistance and esthetics, memory, and living during times of looming fascism. 'Unsentimental Education: Peter Weiss’s Aesthetics of Resistance' by Jared Marcel Pollen libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

Barbora Chaloupkova on America's abandonment of Europe libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

libertiesjournal.com/online-artic... #Gaza

libertiesjournal.com/online-artic... Gaza and the Illusion of Escape - Liberties

Last year I wrote an essay for @readliberties.bsky.social - years in the making - about my near-simultaneous discovery of Opening Night and Tennessee Williams' Two-Character Play - two essential touchstones for me in terms of art with a capital A: libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

libertiesjournal.com/online-artic... A fascinating reflection piece by Thomas Pepinsky on quandaries and merits of teaching comparative politics. Discussing current & controversial events in the classroom that affect students as citizens as much as communities is no liberation theology.

This article talks about how we've come in the US to media that is very similar to what's portrayed in Fahrenheit 451. Not the news, but our movies, music, and art. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic... I think this hits on a truth in a way I hadn't seen before.

“van Gogh’s tribute to Millet was also a bold reimagining that shaped the very course of modern art. By infusing Millet’s quiet realism with his own electric palette and expressive brushwork, van Gogh bridged the worlds of Realism and Impressionism” libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...