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From Beauty and the Brain: The Puzzle by Tim Parks

What happens in the brain when we look at a painting, listen to music, read a book? This was the subject of Neuroesthetics: When Art and the Brain Collide, a workshop conference at IULM University Milan bringing together a mix of neurobiologists and art historians. The atmosphere was tense and expectant, the art folk anxious that they wouldn’t understand a word, the biologists concerned that their work would seem underwhelming and wrongheaded.

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via NYRblog

IMAGINE PEACE TOWER from Yoko Ono on Vimeo.

IMAGINE PEACE TOWER is an outdoor work of art conceived by Yoko Ono in memory of John Lennon. It is situated on Viðey Island in Reykjavík, Iceland [map], powered entirely by Geothermal Energy.

The Imagine Peace Tower will be illuminated March 21 to 28, 2009, and may be viewed via earthcam on the Imagine Peace website.

Image: Yoko Inoue,”Transmigration of the SOLD”, performance on Canal Street 2006-2007, imported wool hats and sweaters with American Flag logo, Yarn from unraveled sweaters, hand track, bunting dress, etc. Photo: Alina Zakaite

ISE Cultural Foundation – 555 Broadway, New York NY

March 06, 2009 – April 10, 2009

Artist(s): Scott Andresen, Andrea Dezso, Donna Huanca, Brece Honeycutt, Yoko Inoue, Nava Lubelski, Darrel Morris, and Shinique Smith

Curated by: Jeanne Gerrity and Melissa Levin

Opening Reception: Friday, March 6, 6-8PM

ISE Cultural Foundation is pleased to present Global Fabrics, Common Threads, a group exhibition co-curated by Jeanne Gerrity and Melissa Levin, and featuring work by Scott Andresen, Andrea Dezso, Donna Huanca, Brece Honeycutt, Yoko Inoue, Nava Lubelski, Darrel Morris, and Shinique Smith. READ MORE

submitted by Brece Honeycutt

Visitors at “Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor” an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum that Thomas P. Campbell curated in 2007

“Ending months of fervid speculation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reached into its own ranks on Tuesday and chose Thomas P. Campbell, a 46-year-old English-born tapestries curator, to succeed Philippe de Montebello as director and chief executive.”

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submitted by Oriane Stender, Brooklyn, NY

$20 Weaving (new 5’s), 2005, 6″ x 6″woven $5 bills, photo by the artist

“I have always been drawn to weaving as a process because of its structural integrity. By this I mean that, unlike painting or drawing, where a base structure is set up (such as a stretched canvas) and then decorated, or some forms of sculpture in which an armature is created, then a surface treated added, the process of weaving creates structure and surface simultaneously. The structure, surface and imagery are built, incrementally, weft by weft, and are inseparable. I find this satisfying both conceptually and as an actual working system. Weaving also connects me to an ancient technology, one that developed independently in different parts of the world thousands of years ago, and was a precursor to the invention of the computer.

In contrast to this historical process, my materials are generally very modern and nontraditional. I like to use (or re-use) materials that carry pre-existing meanings and connotations. This piece is from an ongoing body of work made of money, specifically US dollars, a substance that has universal significance, a substance that carries not just symbolic, but real power.”

submitted by Oriane Stender, Brooklyn, New York

Robyn Love with the help of over fifty volunteers has created The Knitted Mile, a duplicate yellow stripe recently installed along a road in Dallas, Texas as part of the exhibition Gestures of Resistance curated by Shannon Stratton and Judith Leeman. The exhibition at Gray Matters continues until March 20, 2008. Love writes…