{"id":1964,"date":"2009-08-25T01:06:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T08:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/08\/its-all-about-enervating-the-beneficent-neurons\/"},"modified":"2009-08-25T01:10:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T08:10:55","slug":"its-all-about-enervating-the-beneficent-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/25\/its-all-about-enervating-the-beneficent-neurons\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s All About Enervating The Beneficent Neurons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/glyn-vincent\/can-art-keep-you-out-of-j_b_250570.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The Huffington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Can Art Keep You Out of Jail? Rikers Inmates and Alumni Exhibit Paintings<\/h1>\n<p><em>by Glyn Vincent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Few inmates at Rikers Island jail could identify a Picasso or Matisse painting if it was hung in their cell. But the dozen or so young men who are lucky enough to attend Elizabeth Josephson&#8217;s art class at the jail can not only identify the masters, many of them do inspired interpretations of their favorite painters&#8217; art, whether it be the work of Marsden Hartley, David Hockney, Jean-Michel Basquiat or Takashi Murakami.<\/p>\n<p><center style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.huffingtonpost.com\/2009-08-04-images-.jpg1\" height=\"600\" width=\"450\" alt=\"2009-08-04-images-.jpg1\" \/><\/center>\u00a0&#8220;I teach them art history,&#8221; says Josephson, who curated &#8220;Turnstile I,&#8221; an exhibition of Rikers inmate art that opens this Thursday, August 6th at the FiveMyles gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. &#8220;It&#8217;s important that they know who these people are. It teaches them about the real art world and it gives them alternative role models to look up to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The show is the first of three exhibits, by or about Rikers inmates, to be shown at FiveMyles in the next year to raise awareness and support for an after-prison arts program that Josephson is planning to open in Crown Heights. &#8220;These are talented young men who need someplace to go to develop their skills, discipline and self esteem when they get out of jail,&#8221; she told me.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/glyn-vincent\/can-art-keep-you-out-of-j_b_250570.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at HuffPo.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Huffington Post Can Art Keep You Out of Jail? Rikers Inmates and Alumni Exhibit Paintings by Glyn Vincent Few inmates at Rikers Island jail could identify a Picasso or Matisse painting if it was hung in their cell. But the dozen or so young men who are lucky enough to attend Elizabeth Josephson&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}