The curatorial strategy thus sets up two boundaries for the work in the show: the colors blue and black as formal elements on the one side, and associations with the colors black and blue — including race, bruising as a metaphor, and
the specific kind of suffering resulting from racism and racial inequality — on the other.
Michael Lemonick, opinion editor at Scientific American, talks about his most recent book, The Perpetual Now: A Story
of Amnesia, Memory and Love, about Lonni Sue Johnson, who
suffered a
specific kind of brain damage that robbed her
of much
of her memory and her ability to form new memories, and what she has revealed to neuroscientists about memory and the brain.