{"id":2176,"date":"2013-02-15T02:20:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T07:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2013-02-14T22:18:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T03:18:02","slug":"beauty-and-the-brain-february-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/beauty-and-the-brain-february-22.php","title":{"rendered":"Beauty and the Brain, February 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2177\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/29487767@N02\/2845044715\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2177\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2177\" alt=\"Beauty and the Brain\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/beauty_brain.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/beauty_brain.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/beauty_brain-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/beauty_brain-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/beauty_brain-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOURCE: Flickr user alles-schlumpf<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When you hope to be a successful and high-impact professional in your field, it helps to understand deeply the process or product you seek to serve. If you run a retail store, you understand supply chains and consumer behavior. If you run a bank, you understand financial systems and the financial lives and needs of your clients. And if you&#8217;re an arts manager, you understand how the human brain constructs meaning from its sensory environment<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I mean, don&#8217;t you? If you&#8217;re in an arts organization, you&#8217;re in the meaning business. You promote focused and intentional human expressions, and encourage meaningful experiences with those expressions. All of that begins and ends and begins again in the human brain.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I&#8217;m particularly excited to be facilitating a conversation on <a href=\"https:\/\/american.edu\/cas\/katzen\/calendar\/index.cfm?eid=209380\">&#8220;Beauty and the Brain&#8221; at American University on Friday, February 22<\/a>, in the Katzen Arts Center. On hand will be visual artist <a href=\"http:\/\/shikhaliyev.com\/shahin\/?page_id=2\">Shahin Shikhaliyev<\/a>, who is inspired and intrigued by the visual systems in the brain. We&#8217;ll also have not one, but TWO behavioral neuroscientists to talk us through the science and study of neuroaesthetics &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/cas\/faculty\/arthurs.cfm\">Arthur Shapiro<\/a>, who specializes in visual perception and cognitive neuroscience, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/cas\/news\/terry-davidson-behavioral-neuroscience.cfm\">Terry Davidson<\/a>, director of American University&#8217;s new Center for Behavioral Neuroscience.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free and open to the public. So come on over to learn about the machinery that makes your business work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you hope to be a successful and high-impact professional in your field, it helps to understand deeply the process or product you seek to serve. If you run a retail store, you understand supply chains and consumer behavior. 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