Does our biology drive us to create art?

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Has art helped humans to survive and to procreate in some way?

MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, is focussed on art that looks at themes of sex and death. A major exhibition, On the Origin of Art, investigates whether art has an evolutionary purpose.

Opens November 2016

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandarts/on-the-origin-of-art/7979494