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Jan 6, 2025 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Ivy Ross |Susan Magsamen |Isabelle McConville
The Language of Humanity: A Guest Post by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross Practical, comprehensive and essential, Your Brain on Art is ripe with insight. If you ever wanted to truly understand what art can do for the world, let this book be your guide. Read on for an exclusive essay from authors Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross on writing Your Brain on Art.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
jneurosci.org | Susan Magsamen
Have you ever experienced the awakening presence of a loved one with dementia as they sing a familiar song? Or watched, in awe, as the tremors of a person with Parkinson's disease stop and the person's gait improves as they dance? Have you wondered why, exactly, you feel so moved when you hear a piece of music? Or why digging in a garden or walking through a beautiful natural vista brings a sense of calm?
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May 30, 2024 | 
community.thriveglobal.com | Susan Magsamen |Ivy Ross
Arianna Huffington: At a recent health conference, Alice Walton, founder of the Heartland Whole Health Institute and the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, told me Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us is one of her favorite books and gave me a copy. And now I can say it's one of my favorites, too.
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May 16, 2024 | 
community.thriveglobal.com | Susan Magsamen |Ivy Ross
Arianna Huffington: At a recent health conference, Alice Walton, founder of the Heartland Whole Health Institute and the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, told me Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us is one of her favorite books and gave me a copy. And now I can say it's one of my favorites, too.
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May 9, 2024 | 
community.thriveglobal.com | Susan Magsamen |Ivy Ross
Arianna Huffington: At a recent health conference, Alice Walton, founder of the Heartland Whole Health Institute and the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, told me Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us is one of her favorite books and gave me a copy. And now I can say it's one of my favorites, too.
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May 6, 2024 | 
aam-us.org | Susan Magsamen
The field of neuroarts is documenting how the arts and aesthetic experiences measurably change the body, brain, and behavior. This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s May/June 2024 issue, a benefit of AAM membership. The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)Ralph Waldo Emerson was more prescient than he could ever have realized.
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May 6, 2024 | 
aam-us.org | Susan Magsamen
With its exhibition on water, the Ontario Museum of History and Art aims to educate and empower its community and address its wellbeing. This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s May/June 2024 issue, a benefit of AAM membership. As glaciers melt, wildfires ignite, and atmospheric rivers create catastrophic flooding events, it’s clear that water management is an important piece of environmental conservation.
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May 2, 2024 | 
community.thriveglobal.com | Susan Magsamen |Ivy Ross
Arianna Huffington: At a recent health conference, Alice Walton, founder of the Heartland Whole Health Institute and the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, told me Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us is one of her favorite books and gave me a copy. And now I can say it's one of my favorites, too.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
fivebooks.com | Ivy Ross |Susan Magsamen |Jill Burke |Charlie Porter
Before we launch into the best art books of 2023 that you selected, tell me about your book Pinch Me. What prompted you to write this book, here and now? It was a painting that prompted me, a modest work by Picasso, a still life with a jug and apples, in Paris. I was so struck by it, experiencing a kind of full-body presence. And it was especially surprising because it’s a very unassuming painting. I wasn’t expecting it to have this effect on me.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
leadersedge.com | Scott Naugle |Susan Magsamen |Ivy Ross
Lifestyle Reader's Edge the December 2023 issue Exploring art in life with Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us. Sweat, elbow grease and a bit of luck and I’d have a house, two cars and an antenna on the roof for the television. With the exception of a few fluffy-collared dilettantes, which everyone gossiped about as frittering away their lives on artistic pursuits, that’s what people did.
