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Visual Art

Scientists Are Heart-Monitoring Art Audiences

by Jen Graves • Aug 3, 2010 at 9:30 am

In the Stendhal syndrome, works of art are so powerful that they cause a physical reaction. Scientists, ever skeptical, are setting up heart monitors to test the truth of this theory. Unfortunately, they're setting up somewhere boring! But where to go? What makes the contemporary heart flutter?

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