NYC Sotheby's

Fascinating symposium put on by Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Society for Arts in Healthcare. It was held at Sotheby's auction house, 160 people in attendance, from all over the nation, Canada, England and Japan.

I was on the panel presenting Three Models of Arts in Healthcare Programs. Along with, Gerry Herbert, founder of the Creative Center Arts for People with Cancer.

And Donna Glassford presenting Vanderbilt's program, which has in its collection such luminaries as
Jim Dine, Dale Chihuly, Frank Stella .

Blair Sadler CEO of San Diego Children's Hospital spoke on New Evidence in Architecture, Art and Healing.

Roger Ulrich gave a overview of Research on Art and Healing. To my mind he had silly examples of what is inappropriate in a patient's room; snakes, grotesque figures, ugly abstractions. Which skewes his results - that only sunny landscapes and smiling people are healing images.