The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul

"Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself."

Emerson on Talent vs. Character, Our Resistance to Change, and the Key to True Personal Growth

"People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them."

How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust

"The alternations between love and its denial, suffering and denial of suffering … constitute the most essential and ubiquitous structural feature of the human heart."

The Marginalian • 9h

Whitney Biennial, Can You Hear Us?

Fascism is upon us, but a major US art show seems none the wiser. Also, how to make a protest sign, remembering Pat Steir, and more.

Hyperallergic • 11h

Systems and the default to yes

Joseph Brandlin is a scofflaw. After months of fighting to get the city council to put a stop sign on the corner of the dangerous intersection near his home, he simply did it himself. A first-rate, professional job that cost more than $1,000. As he was finishing the job at 1:30

Seth's Blog • 12h

Marica Vilcek, Graceful Champion of Immigrant Artists, Dies at 89

Her namesake foundation has awarded over $17 million to advance its mission, including unrestricted cash awards for researchers and artists across disciplines.

Hyperallergic • 23h