# art story (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover art story. Page: Feed: --- ## [Ashley Kahn on the Miracles and Wonder of Paul Simon’s Graceland](https://leosidran.substack.com/p/ashley-kahn-on-the-miracles-and-wonder) _2026-08-21 · Leo Sidran | The Third Story · Leo Sidran | The Third Story_ Ashley Kahn talks about his new book Days of Miracle and Wonder which explores Paul Simon’s unconventional creative process and the complicated questions that surrounded the making of Graceland. ## [Chapter 19 | Thought Farm](https://artandstory.substack.com/p/chapter-19-thought-farm) _2026-08-16 · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story_ The Crash ## [Ben Sidran at 83: “Entropy Is Inevitable, But the Antidote Is Available”](https://leosidran.substack.com/p/ben-sidran-at-83-entropy-is-inevitable) _2026-08-14 · Leo Sidran | The Third Story · Leo Sidran | The Third Story_ On his 83rd birthday, Ben Sidran revisits a 1974 DownBeat profile and considers what has changed - and what hasn’t - over more than half a century of music and life. ## [Thought Farm | Chapter 18](https://artandstory.substack.com/p/thought-farm-chapter-18) _2026-08-09 · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story_ The Moment of Truth ## [Thoughts on the Week: Singers Make Dangerous Companions](https://leosidran.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-the-week-singers-make) _2026-08-09 · Leo Sidran | The Third Story · Leo Sidran | The Third Story_ A late-night adventure with a gang of jazz singers leads me to Siberia - a dive bar hidden inside an NYC subway station. Plus, a week of vocalists on The Art of the Story. ## [Thought Farm | Chapter 17](https://artandstory.substack.com/p/thought-farm-chapter-17) _2026-08-02 · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story_ Fault Lines ## [Thoughts on the Week: Messages in a bottle](https://leosidran.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-the-week-messages-in) _2026-08-02 · Leo Sidran | The Third Story · Leo Sidran | The Third Story_ How music, magazines and creative communities can shape a life from afar. Plus LAMC, Ana Tijoux, Ruido Tovar, Christian McBride, and a Spanish-language podcast conversation asks 3 magic questions. ## [Thought Farm | Chapter 15](https://artandstory.substack.com/p/thought-farm-chapter-15) _2026-07-26 · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story_ Wake up ## [Ben Wikler: "Democracy is exhausting until you discover solidarity."](https://leosidran.substack.com/p/ben-wikler-democracy-is-exhausting) _2026-07-22 · Leo Sidran | The Third Story · Leo Sidran | The Third Story_ Ben Wikler on community, political communication, humor, organizing, civic life, and the Wisconsin values that shaped his approach to democracy. ## [Thought Farm | Chapter 14](https://artandstory.substack.com/p/thought-farm-chapter-14) _2026-07-19 · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story_ The Barrier ## [Follow Releases, Get Reminders (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6hkbb3PUSfnQ) _2026-07-19 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a genre or a name and receive reminders on release day — free. ## [Thoughts on the Week: The Surprising Inevitability of a Good Song](https://leosidran.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-the-week-the-surprising) _2026-07-19 · Leo Sidran | The Third Story · Leo Sidran | The Third Story_ A song becomes timeless not because it remains unchanged, but because each generation transforms it into something that feels newly its own. ## [Thought Farm | Chapter 13](https://artandstory.substack.com/p/thought-farm-chapter-13) _2026-07-12 · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story_ Steel Tears ## [Thoughts on the Week: The Invisible Consequences of Small Moments](https://leosidran.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-the-week-the-invisible) _2026-07-12 · Leo Sidran | The Third Story · Leo Sidran | The Third Story_ On a train platform in Córdoba, I consider how one great teacher quietly changed the course of my life. ## [Thought Farm | Chapters 10, 11, 12](https://artandstory.substack.com/p/thought-farm-chapters-10-11-12) _2026-07-05 · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story_ Stonewalling: When a person emotionally disengages, shuts down, or gives the "silent treatment during a conflict" ## [Who Are We Without the Scaffolding?](https://leosidran.substack.com/p/who-are-we-without-the-scaffolding) _2026-07-04 · Leo Sidran | The Third Story · Leo Sidran | The Third Story_ A conversation with Ben Sidran, from Greece on America's 250th birthday, about jazz, democracy, identity, and what remains when the scaffolding begins to shake. ## [Thought Farm | Chapter 9](https://artandstory.substack.com/p/thought-farm-chapter-9) _2026-06-29 · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story_ The difference between 32 degrees and 33 degrees that changes everything. ## [When Alzheimer's becomes art](https://thegazeart.substack.com/p/when-alzheimers-becomes-art) _2026-06-25 · Matthijs Van Mierlo · The Gaze Mail_ The devastating story of William Utermohlen ## [Thought Farm | Chapter 8](https://artandstory.substack.com/p/thought-farm-chapter-8-29c) _2026-06-21 · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story_ Cognitive Dissonance: The psychological discomfort experienced when holding contradictory ideas simultaneously. ## [Thoughts on the Week: Big Props to All the Pops](https://leosidran.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-the-week-big-props-to) _2026-06-21 · Leo Sidran | The Third Story · Leo Sidran | The Third Story_ How Father's Day looks different at fifty than it did at twenty-five. ## [Heather Aimee O'Neill: The Observer](https://leosidran.substack.com/p/heather-aimee-oneill-the-observer) _2026-06-19 · Leo Sidran | The Third Story · Leo Sidran | The Third Story_ Heather Aimee O'Neill on the vulnerability of ambition, the challenge of living an authentic life, and the strange transition from observer to protagonist. ## [100,000 Bonus Points Await You (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/T69Wz1X5U3yP) _2026-06-19 · **Sponsored**_ Earn 100,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. ## [Thought Farm: Chapter 7](https://artandstory.substack.com/p/thought-farm-chapter-7-with-a-new) _2026-06-17 · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story_ Avoidance ## [Thoughts on the Week: Paris May Be Over (But I'm Not Over Paris)](https://leosidran.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-the-week-paris-may-be) _2026-06-13 · Leo Sidran | The Third Story · Leo Sidran | The Third Story_ Wrong notes from the Right Bank, the home stretch of a new album, and four stories that stayed with me this week. ## [Thought Farm | Chapter Six](https://artandstory.substack.com/p/thought-farm-chapter-six) _2026-06-07 · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story_ Denial: An unconscious psychological mechanism used to avoid anxiety or painful emotions ## [Thought Farm | Chapter 5](https://artandstory.substack.com/p/thought-farm-chapter-4-f1d) _2026-05-31 · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story_ DELUSIONS OF REFERENCE: A belief that a pattern of random events is somehow connected to the individual. ## [🐒 Rubens' secret club](https://thegazeart.substack.com/p/rubens-secret-club) _2026-05-26 · Matthijs Van Mierlo · The Gaze Mail_ Featuring monkeys in tiny outfits. ## [Thought Farm | Chapter 4](https://artandstory.substack.com/p/thought-farm-chapter-4) _2026-05-24 · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story_ Psychotic Paranoia: An irrational, unshakeable conviction that someone, or a group, is attempting to exploit, harm, or conspire against you. ## [Thought Farm | Chapter 3](https://artandstory.substack.com/p/thought-farm-chapter-3) _2026-05-17 · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story_ Known and Unknowns ## [Thought Farm | Chapter 2](https://artandstory.substack.com/p/thought-farm-chapter-2) _2026-05-03 · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story_ The Lab Break-in ## [Thought Farm | Chapter 1](https://artandstory.substack.com/p/thought-farm-chapter-1) _2026-05-03 · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story_ The Night of the Show ## [Season of Change](https://artandstory.substack.com/p/season-of-change) _2026-05-02 · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story_ We Are Here ## [Find what they just said (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6qErHILPbmPL) _2026-05-02 · **Sponsored**_ Surface recent public signals so you can send policy-aware, relevant outreach ## [Welcome to Art & Story](https://artandstory.substack.com/p/welcome-to-art-and-story-219) _2026-05-01 · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story · T.M. Oliver | Art & Story_ Let Me Entertain You. ## [😏 The smuggest face in art](https://thegazeart.substack.com/p/the-smuggest-face-in-art) _2026-04-15 · Matthijs Van Mierlo · The Gaze Mail_ And the king who survived 12 assassination attempts ## [⚔️ A lovely geyser of blood](https://thegazeart.substack.com/p/a-lovely-geyser-of-blood) _2026-03-10 · Matthijs Van Mierlo · The Gaze Mail_ Revenge, carved in wood ## [🦕 Dinosaurs in a 16th-century painting?](https://thegazeart.substack.com/p/dinosaurs-in-a-16th-century-painting) _2026-02-03 · Matthijs Van Mierlo · The Gaze Mail_ Impossible. ## [👀 A Medieval Tarantino Portrait?](https://thegazeart.substack.com/p/13th-century-tarantino) _2026-01-05 · Matthijs Van Mierlo · The Gaze Mail_ You'll never, ever forget this face ## [👀 Coming in 2026: The Gaze Mail](https://thegazeart.substack.com/p/coming-in-2026-the-gaze-mail) _2025-11-24 · Matthijs Van Mierlo · The Gaze Mail_ One art story. Once a month.