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A Life’s Work: As Her Reputation Surges, Luchita Hurtado Discusses Her Long Career

Sometime in the mid-1940s, the artist Luchita Hurtado, then in her 20s, boarded a Madison Avenue bus in Manhattan to go to an opening at Pierre Matisse’s gallery on East 57th Street. “There was…

• By
  Catherine G. Wagley
• Jan 20, 2017 4:44 pm

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Is Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder?

Researchers in the evolving field of neuroesthetics seek to determine what happens in the cerebral cortex when we see art—and, in the process, figure out what makes great works so mesmerizing.

• By
  Ann Landi
• Jan 1, 2010 12:00 am