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In 1963, six years after the first satellite was launched, editors from the Encyclopaedia Britannica posed a question to five eminent thinkers of the day: “Has man’s conquest of space increased or diminished his stature?” The respondents were philosopher Hannah Arendt, writer Aldous Huxley, theologian Paul Tillich, nuclear scientist Harrison…

He was a musical maverick whose Trout Mask Replica still sticks out on best-of lists, but when he gave up rock to paint, his art was dismissed as doodles. Now his remarkable work is getting its due