The Art

How art improves your health and changes your body 

Excerpted from YOUR BRAIN ON ART by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross. Copyright © 2023 by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross. Reprinted by arrangement with Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. One of the most important developments in the…

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Provost announces founding director of School of the Arts 

Robbins Image Credit: Madeline Yee. Robbins Image Credit: Madeline Yee. × Binghamton University Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Donald Hall is pleased to announce that Christopher Robbins has been appointed the founding director of the new School of the Arts. He will…

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Art from Under the Psychic Hood 

Presently on the savory menu of exhibitions at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, there lurks art of variously subversive ways and means. Wild, abstract-leaning, and rough film-noir-ish impressions are made in the main exhibition arenas where Joan Tanner and Ed and Nancy Kienholz hold…

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Art, Beauty, and the Soul of the University 

Valparaiso University, a Lutheran college in Indiana, recently announced plans to sell three pieces of art that are described as the “cornerstone” of the University museum’s collection. The sale—to include paintings by Georgia O’Keefe, Childe Hassam, and Frederic Edwin Church—is planned to fund renovations to…

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Biden awarding 1st batch of arts, humanities medals Tuesday 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bruce Springsteen has a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a coveted Kennedy Center Honor. He has won… WASHINGTON (AP) — Bruce Springsteen has a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a coveted Kennedy Center Honor. He has won multiple Grammys and Golden Globes,…