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What Is Art For?

People flock to museums like never before, so they must have their motives. But when it comes to art, people get strangely afraid to ask too directly what it all might be for, because everyone except you might know the answer already. It’s perhaps too obvious; it’s perhaps too complicated; the result is an awkward silence.

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The Beauty of Komorebi

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The Beauty of Komorebi

It is one of the most charming aspects of Japanese culture that it offers up a specific word for what…

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On Flying Too Close to the Sun – And Not Flying Close Enough

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On Flying Too Close to the Sun – And Not Flying Close Enough

We are - most of us - likely at some point in childhood to have been told the story of…

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Eight Rules to Create Nicer Cities

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Eight Rules to Create Nicer Cities

In almost no area of modern life are the potential solutions simpler and our attachment to our errors greater than…

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The Past Was Not in Black and White

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The Past Was Not in Black and White

It’s a sign of how much photography influences our sense of what the past looked like that it’s hard not…

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You Are Living in the Greatest Museum in the World

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You Are Living in the Greatest Museum in the World

One of the most penetrating things Andy Warhol once said was: ‘If you lock the doors of a department store…

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When Something is Beautiful…

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When Something is Beautiful…

It might be a tree in blossom, some daffodils, an ancient cottage, an old stone wall, the dawn sky… Such…

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