Prophecies and Prices
December 14, 2018 · Books & Arts, Art, painting
Ian Marcus Corbin on values in the art world.
Philosopher and Cultural Critic
Ian Marcus Corbin
6 articles 2011–2018
Ian Marcus Corbin is a philosopher and writer who focuses on aesthetics, culture, and the arts. He contributed essays and criticism to The Weekly Standard between 2011 and 2018, covering topics ranging from visual art and film to literature and cultural commentary. He is affiliated with Harvard University's program in ethics and has written widely on questions of meaning, beauty, and human experience.
David Lynch, Donald Trump, and Cultural Revolt
July 3, 2018 · culture, Web Only, David Lynch
“No one is able to counter this guy in an intelligent way,” the film director said.
Reading Dangerously
June 8, 2018 · Books & Arts, Political Philosophy, Philosophy
Ian Marcus Corbin on the illiberal philosophers and our fractured politics.
Stillman’s Vision
May 21, 2012 · Ian Marcus Corbin, Magazine, Books and Arts
Whit Stillman did not get the memo.
Transcendent Voice
November 7, 2011 · Ian Marcus Corbin, Magazine, Books and Arts
In the spring of 1958, Miles Davis was in search of a new piano player, and a new sound. He found both in an unlikely figure: Bill Evans, a shy, neatly combed, bespectacled white boy from Plainfield, New Jersey. Evans, who was 28 at the time, had been in New York for a little less than three years,…
Poetry of Light
July 25, 2011 · Ian Marcus Corbin, Magazine, Books and Arts
Unseen Hand