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I hate "classical music": not the thing but the name. It traps a tenaciously living art in a theme park of the past. It cancels ou...

All music becomes classical music in the end. Reading the histories of other genres, I often get a funny sense of déjà vu. The story of jazz...

What will we wear in the future? Probably not so many logos. The elite fashion world is showing signs of leaving them behind. The newest fas...

Only high-status individuals can afford the pleasure of not pleasing. Protected by social position, they are free to create their own rules,...

In medieval times, the arts were predominantly in the service of religion, as they have been in human societies from the beginning. They wer...

Nevertheless, despite the artificiality of the poles of the oral-literate continuum, certain intriguing oppositions and comparisons can be m...

In the Annunciation , Leonardo makes dramatic and convincing use of linear perspective. Everything in the painting recedes towards a single...