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• Solange’s take on black identity via Tate.org

  26-08-2017 14:57
  The superstar singer Solange Knowles Ferguson, sister of Beyonc, reflects on black identity and womanhood in a striking new online interactive piece available on the Tate website. As part of the digital dossier, entitled Seventy States, Solange discusses what drove her recent album, A Seat at the Table, musing also on the significance of the Tate Modern show Soul of a Nation, Art in the Age of Black Power (until 22 October) and why artist Betye Saar, a pioneer of the Black Arts movement, matters
  
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• The Book of Emma Reyes review – an artist’s astonishing memories

  26-08-2017 10:00
  This memoir of childhood and adolescence written in the form of letters by the Colombian painter recalls days of profound poverty and neglect
  Those who have heard of Emma Reyes, and they are few, know her as a Colombian painter who lived in France for many years. She died in 2003, not famous but remembered as “mama grande” to Latin American artists and writers in France and as a marvellous storyteller. She had won a scholarship to study in Paris in 1947, but once there was advised no
  
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• Breaking Down How Creativity Works

  26-08-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Fundamentally, neurons connect when they are stimulated together. A schema is a set of related concepts that define a mental object. When any of the sub-concepts in the schema arise in the mind as a result of external stimuli, the associated neurons fire, and cause some firing of connected neurons. So, if you read, ‘large, gray, mammal, trunk, tusk’, your brain is primed to fire ‘elephant,’ and many other ideas associated with an elephant. I’m oversimplifying, but
  
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