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Your Brain On Art

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A visit to a museum can provoke a long list of questions: How does this piece make me feel? Is what I’m looking at any good? And who gets to decide what makes something a work of art? Ellen Winner, director of the Arts and Mind Lab at Boston College, joins us to walk through these questions and many others, which she tackles in “How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration” (Oxford).