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Shepard Fairey on Capitalism, Freedom, Selling Out, and What Makes Great Art – The Marginalian

In 1989, street artist, graphic designer, and activist Shepard Fairey created his famous Obey Giant sticker campaign, which spread like […]

“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks… the work for

By Maria Popova I turned the corner one afternoon to find my neighborhood grocer gone. No warning, just gone —

“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way

“The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours,” the psychiatrist Eric Berne observed in

By Maria Popova In the fall of 2013, as Brain Pickings was turning seven, I wrote about the seven most

By Maria Popova How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through friendship,

“The mind is its own place,” Milton wrote in Paradise Lost, “and in it self can make a Heav’n of

Nothing shapes our experience of reality, and nothing limits it, more than our frames of reference. Every transcendent achievement of