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This wasn't always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy. But somewhere in the 19th century, more artists began seeing happiness as insipid, phony or, worst of all, boring--in Tolstoy's words, "All happy families are alike." We went from Wordsworth's daffodils to Baudelaire's flowers of evil. In the 20th century, classical music became more atonal, visual art more unsettling. Artists who focused on making their audiences feel good, from Usher to Thomas Kinkade, were labeled...
...Step One of Mishra's effort to rehabilitate the Buddha for his homeland is to rediscover Prince Siddhartha?the man who became the most famous Indian of all time while meditating under a fig tree in Bihar. Going back to the earliest Buddhist documents, Mishra recreates the scene in eastern India in the 6th century B.C., when a young aristocrat who has abandoned his wife and fortune, stumbles through Bihar searching for a way to end misery in the world. Restless, curious, lonely and sometimes arrogant, Mishra's Buddha is an ordinary man confronting problems that face ordinary...
...parts of the world, the Chinese probably concocted the drinks, using rice, hawthorn fruits, wild grapes and honey, for religious libations. According to Zhang Juzhong, an archeologist at the University of Science and Technology of China, who discovered the shards, Jiahu's residents?who also made the world's earliest known musical instruments?"probably drank the wine to numb their minds and to help them commune with the divine." And given Chinese ingenuity, that probably wasn...
...majority of the more than 100 professors in attendance did not vote and some questioned whether it was appropriate to vote at this time given that an official vote will not be taken until this spring, at the earliest...
...Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom came out when I was in sixth grade, and it was one of my earliest CD purchases. Simultaneously an addictive pop album and an interesting if not terribly coherent concept piece, it still pops up in my playlist from time to time...