So long has this mono-imagery permeated our visual field and our consciousness that we aren't even aware of how we participate in enforcing and sanctioning it.

BBC: Interactive Essay: Transcript

These giant unsigned works, produced collectively, may have marked the first time in Arab history that the visual arts had a major impact on public consciousness.

WSJ: Taking It to the Street | The Shift

And Endless Forms at the Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge, considers how Darwin's ideas penetrated the consciousness of the great artists of the era, inspiring visual representations of the struggle for existence, of natural attraction and sexual selection, and the origin and descent of man.

BBC: Friday 11 September: Darwin special

If critical paranoia poisoned visual and imaginative pleasure, that was unavoidable: a toll of enlightened consciousness.

NEWYORKER: Flashes of Light