Creativity – Page 2

Nutter Butter, Are You Good? An Investigation.

The cookie sandwich brand’s videos — funny, disturbing, fever-dreamlike — rack up tens of millions of views. The secret is lots of lore without much sense, the campaign’s strategists explain.

By Hank Sanders

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T’s Art Issue: The Power of Saying No

T looks at some of contemporary art’s genuine iconoclasts — celebrated recluses and others who’ve managed to create an alternate way of being a creative person in a world that sometimes scoffs at privacy.

By M.H. Miller

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What Happens When Artists Start Going to Therapy?

In a number of exhibitions on view this year, people are pushing back on the cliché of suffering being essential to art, embracing recovery and wellness instead.

By Julia Halperin

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Pedro Almodóvar, Master of Mystifying Films, Wrote a Book He Can’t Classify

In “The Last Dream,” the Spanish director offers insights into his complicated relationship with creativity and mortality.

By Nicholas Casey