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• Brain Scientists Think They're Figuring Out Creativity

  15-01-2018 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Not so long ago, it was commonly believed that the right hemisphere is the exclusive generator of creative thought. Later on, researchers' focus shifted to connectivity between the two hemispheres. That model has been refined in recent years, as scientists have begun mapping not just regions of the brain, but the neural networks that spring into action as needed. Now, researchers have identified a brain network that is strongly associated with creativity."
  
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• Morning Links: Queen Elizabeth II Edition

  15-01-2018 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Artists' impressions: sculptors help to identify victims found on US-Mexico border

  15-01-2018 08:00
  The remains of eight dead men have never been formally identified, so a group of New York artists have been called upon for help with facial reconstructionThe families of eight men found dead on the US border with Mexico do not know what happened to them. The men have not been identified but their skulls sit in the office of the medical examiner of Pima County, Arizona, about 70 miles north of the border.This week, in a last-ditch effort to provide answers, artists at the New York Academy of Art
  
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• Lisa Reihana’s Cinemania – exquisite immersive experience is a must-see

  15-01-2018 04:22
  Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
  The New Zealand artist’s massive signature work was lauded at Venice Biennale and is the centrepiece of a powerful career survey at Sydney festivalIt’s rare to be in the presence of a work of contemporary art that transcends itself; that stops being about a thing and instead becomes that thing. Context of course is inescapable – and when artists and audience share a cultural history, memory or knowledge, it can be vital to the back story of a pi
  
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