Culture

Painted in six weeks after the Nazi bombing of a Basque town. No heroism, no glory - only horses screaming and women holding dead children. Integrity as the refusal to aestheticize what should not be made beautiful.

A stencil on a brick wall, a girl in a dress releasing a heart-shaped balloon. Made in public, available to anyone, impossible to own. Art as the refusal to make something only the wealthy could access.

Ruby Bridges, six years old, flanked by US marshals walking to school past a wall smeared with slurs. Integrity as a small girl's footsteps - the courage that looks, from the outside, like an ordinary walk to school.