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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 Wisdom of Liming

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The Wisdom of Liming

On the Caribbean islands of Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, there’s a skill which is widely revered, which has been…

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Reasons Not to Give Up

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Reasons Not to Give Up

In one of the upper rooms of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford hangs a picture by a minor Danish nineteenth…

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The Pleasures of the Underground

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The Pleasures of the Underground

There are moods – of dissatisfaction and loneliness, panic and despair – when the very best counsel we might be…

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Why Small Pleasures Become a Bigger, Not a Smaller Deal, the More We Suffer and Age

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Why Small Pleasures Become a Bigger, Not a Smaller Deal, the More We Suffer and Age

There's an apparent paradox in the way that the longer we have lived, the more appreciation we tend to develop…

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What We Might Learn From The Dandies of The Congo

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What We Might Learn From The Dandies of The Congo

In most places on earth, it would be considered highly bizarre to meet a goat herder, living at the end…

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What Should A Good Therapist Do For Us?

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What Should A Good Therapist Do For Us?

We hear a lot of background noise about the benefits of psychotherapy. But it can be hard to get a…

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