When you think about hotels, you don't always think about great art. That is not the case at the Benson Hotel in Aurora. The hotel has carefully curated an extensive collection of paintings and sculptures representing about 32 artists, most of whom are from Colorado. Each piece was commissioned to create an atmosphere.

"It's by Dan Young. It's called 'Sunrise on the Colorado,'" said Heidi Laursen, Director of Sales & Marketing at the Benson Hotel, said of a three-painting series that hangs on the second floor hallway. "For one, it complements the space perfectly. It creates a sense of calm."

That sense of calm is not an illusion. New research shows that just viewing art improves your health.

"That's engaging your brain, your pre-frontal lobe, and your thinking, higher learning processes

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