How does great art make you feel, and where does that feeling come from?
“Art museums create art experiences. All experiences are created in our brains,” says Dan Monroe, the director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. So if you want to make an experience better, there seems only one place to start.
“It would be a good idea to see how brains work,” Monroe says.
It’s a leap of logic that makes perfect sense, but one that hasn’t been explored much in the art world. All of that is about to change, though, and the Peabody Essex Museum is leading the way: The PEM re
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