How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our Selves

A vital testament to how art makes us who we are-and offers new ways of seeing our world and our lives.

Barbara Kruger once defined art as the ability "to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent shorthand, how it feels to be alive." Testing that claim, Megan O'Grady takes us on a journey to explore art's intimate effects and how it might help us find clarity in an uncertain world.

When O'Grady was a teenager, she saw a photograph in a museum that changed her life. When she was at the end o...