That feeling of contentment might be one that artists can mistrust, because of the idea that great art is created under tense circumstances. We don’t have as many cultural legends about when happy artists make great art. I think that romanticizing sick artists perpetuates this thing that’s supernegative, especially for women. I want women to feel l... See more

although mental illness is global, the experience of mental illness cannot be separated from culture. If there is a surge of Anglospheric gloom among teenagers, we have to study the culture that young people are consuming with their technology. In the past generation, the English-speaking world, led by the U.S., has experimented with a novel approa

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Once, the artist was central to how societies made meaning — a steward of vision, beauty, and change. But today, in the corridors of commerce and policy, the artist is too often dismissed. Aesthetic garnish. A nice-to-have. Miscast as a fringe visionary, an outsider to the “real” work of business and strategy.

But this caricature doesn’t hold.

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