The Arts and Alzheimer's
Can The Arts help Alzheimer’s patients find the center of average living? Is it possible that imagination and abstraction can actually provide form and coherence for the fading mind?

Can The Arts help Alzheimer’s patients find the center of average living? Is it possible that imagination and abstraction can actually provide form and coherence for the fading mind?

Yesterday, in my WordPunk article — Built for Beautiful Failing — I wondered if Art hates or heals. Yesterday, in the New York Times, I received a reply to my query in a story concerning an Art display in a vacant Midtown store: “The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama.”

As we struggle to make our way along a dark path without stumbling, I wonder if Art helps us navigate the pitfalls of life, or if Art only tempt us with unreachable pinnacles that wallow in the ugly truths of the human condition?

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