This unique course uses fine art to test perception skills and challenge inherent biases. It initially came about for medical students, but now it's used by the FBI, US Special Operations Forces and the NYPD
Written byThis article was published in partnership with Artsy, the global platform for discovering and collecting art. The original article can be seenA New York City detective was called to a crime scene in an industrial part of Brooklyn, New York, where he was told a female prostitute had been found dead.
"The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych" by the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch at El Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain.Famous works such as Hieronymus Bosch's"Garden of Earthly Delights" -- with its absurd, unsettling creatures -- are used as lessons in objectivity: Explain what's there without emotion. Édouard Manet's"A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" is an exercise in standing in someone else's shoes: Look through the bartender's eyes.
In 2004, Herman cold-called the New York Police Department about"The Art of Perception," and today, she has taught the course well over 1,000 times -- and she still teaches it at museums. Beyond the NYPD, she says her impressive list of clients includes US Special Operations Forces, the US Department of Defense, the FBI, Google and more.Credit Suisse's investment banking division invites Herman back every year for its professional development program."We're moving so fast.
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