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Stephen is not in Vegas. He's watching a video monitor in Paul Glimcher's neural-science lab at New York University. And his head is plugged into a high-powered Siemens functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner (fMRI). His name is not actually Stephen; he's a composite research subject. Glimcher is at the frontal lobe of an intriguing network of brain researchers and economists who are using advanced medical technology to try to figure out why people make the decisions they do--what brand of cereal, which mutual fund--and what part of the brain tells them...
...Harvard professors elected Tuesday were: Harvey Cantor, professor of pathology at the Medical School; Constance L. Cepko, professor of biological and biomedical sciences at the Medical School; William C. Clark, Brooks professor of international science, public policy, and human development at the Kennedy School of Government; Laurie H. Glimcher, professor of medicine at the Medical School and Given professor of immunology at the School of Public Health; Yum-Tong Siu, Byerly professor of mathematics; and Bruce M. Spiegelman, professor of cell biology at the Medical School...
Glimcher’s historical exhibits are successful ventures, which often receive loans from the major museums. “It’s a great way to see the exhibitions that I want to see, but that museums aren’t showing,” Glimcher said, “but it’s also my way to give back to the community.” In fact, the majority of his sales are to major museums...
Above all, Glimcher sees Pace as a product of its age. It has championed such contemporary artists as Chuck Close, Julian Schnabel and Claes Oldenburg, but has no intention of championing up and coming artists today. “Our youngest artist is Kiki Smith––and she’s 40,” he said. “It would probably only be detrimental for a young artist to show with us, as dwarfed between the giants as they would be. We’ve grown up with these people?...
...Glimcher has always allowed his instinct for the art that he knows and loves to have free reign. He has no ambitions beyond following this passion. “Art is my obsession,” he said after the lecture. “Of course I had not idea I would rise this high. You just put one foot ahead of the other...