Las Meninas. Diego Velazquez.

Is Art Essential to Human Nature?

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 4, 2015

In Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, philosophy professor Alva Noë examines our persistent, and conflicted, relationship to art, over the centuries.

Events: Alva will be at NYU’s Casa Italiana at 5:30 pm on December 10.  24 W 12th St.

On December 11 at 9:00 pm, Alva will be at Overthrow Boxing Club (9 Bleecker St.) for a conversation with choreographer Moriah Evans and artist Jeffrey Gibson.

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