Can art and creativity change our future?

Click Here to Read:  Can art and creativity change our future? The “Creativity Pioneers” proving that imagination is a practical tool for social transformation By Lee Helland on the Big Think website on February 10, 2026.

October 5 at 12:00 in the exhibition hall of the Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts. Master class by Sergei Andriaki Image: Администрация Волгоградской области Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
      

Outward Signs of Inner Mysteries: Eric Gudas on the work and afterlife of the misunderstood photographer Diane Arbus

Click Here to Read:  Outward Signs of Inner Mysteries: Eric Gudas on the work and afterlife of the misunderstood photographer Diane Arbus By Eric Gudas on the LA RB website on January 5, 2026.

Diane Arbus Constellation, photography exhibit at Park Avenue Armory.  Image: Kenneth C. Zirkel.  Public Domian via Wikimedia Commons.

Dante and Milton, Religion and Politics

Click Here to Read:  Dante and Milton, Religion and Politics: Four centuries and a thousand miles apart, each epic poet was traumatized by bloody factional strife that tore his country to pieces. One craved a worldwide monarchy. The other supported a regicide by Jamey Hecht on his Substack on January 6, 2026.

Gustav Doré, Satan Confronting Sin and Death at the Gates of Hell, c 1880. Woodcut on wove paper by Francois Pannemaker and Albert Doms. Collection of the Satanic Temple.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell audiobook review – the life and loss of the woman behind the Bard

Click Here to Read: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell audiobook review – the life and loss of the woman behind the Bard: The wife of William Shakespeare takes centre stage in a rich, sensitive examination of parental grief, sensitively narrated by Jessie Buckley by Fiona Sturges on the Guardian website on December 25, 2025.

Jessie Buckley at the premiere of Hamnet at the Toronto International Film Festival. Image: Jay Dixit.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Why We Dance: The surprising link between talking and moving to the beat 

Click to Read: Why We Dance: The surprising link between talking and moving to the beat  Gregory Hickok on his Wired for Words blog on the Psychology Today blogs on December 1, 2025.

Greg Sample and Jennita Russo of Deyo Dances performing in the modern ballet Brasileiro. Image: Barry Goyette from San Luis Obispo, USA Public Domain via WIkimedia Commons.