Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere I am looking with sweet regard at this photo taken at the apex of summer on the pond where I live. It is a hazy, sunny day, but dead ...

And that whisper carries further. In our fast-scrolling, overstimulated reality, art still offers the rarest thing of all: stillness. “Because we are forgetting how to pause, art invites us to ...