Watch the following video in which Gary Vikan, Director of the Walters Museum of Art and a faculty member of the Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Leaders, discusses how neuroscience, evolutionary biology and the cave paintings in Lascaux might point to the fact that aesthetics is “hard-wired into our heads.”
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[...] in the community… then you understand why you and your organization matters. And (to paraphrase Gary Vikan) when you truly understand that, you no longer have to advocate; your value is self-evident. – [...]