The 15th Annual Slow Art Day – with 210+ museums, galleries, churches, and hospitals are – begins tomorrow Saturday, April 5, 2025 (see full list of venues around the world and register yours if you have not yet done so)‬.

New York, Berlin, Mexico City, Paris, Hong Kong, Brussels, Athens, Budapest, Washington, DC, Toronto, Rome, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Melbourne, Stockholm, Seoul, Antwerp, Los Angeles, London, Barcelona, Stockholm, Johannesburg, Brazil, Singapore, and many, many other places are participating in Slow Art Day.

We are proud that in this topsy-turvy time, Slow Art Day is a model of global cooperation.

So, yes, while trade barriers, tariffs, and acrimony fill the global political debate, thousands of people across every continent will celebrate the power of art to bring us together.

Here are some highlights from this year’s festival of slowing down to look at and love art.

Mexico City is hosting its first citywide Slow Art Day with more than **40** museums and galleries participating. Read these two articles from CDMX – Ad Magazine and Milenio – to learn more. I also encourage you to check out the Instagram for the Mexico City Slow Art Day – there are a lot of great resources, images, and stories there. Constanza Ontiveros Valdés, writer and cultural projects organizer, has done an amazing job.

Bloomington, Illinois, which started the citywide movement, is now hosting 20+ museums and galleries and a big party to boot. Read this article to learn more or see our post.

Here are two posters from these two citywide events.

Mass‬ MoCA‬‭ is celebrating again as is the beautiful and wonderful‬‭ Athenaeum‬‭ in Boston while the Morgan Library is hosting in New York, and The Barnes Foundation‬‭ ,‭ Glenn Foerd‬‭, and the‬‭ Magic‬‭ Gardens‬‭ are all hosting in Philadelphia.

In Washington D.C., the‬‭ National Museum of Women in‬‭ the Arts‬‭ is hosting yet again while the National Museum of Asian Art is joining us for the first time.

Antwerp’s church-based Slow Art movement continues to grow while St. Vincent’s Hospital‬‭ in Melbourne has become a leader in hospital-based Slow Art.

‭The‬‭ Ur Mara Museo‬‭ in Spain’s Basque country holds its‬‭ 10th Slow Art Day with another full day of‬ slow looking, cooking, eating, and dancing.‬ While Ur Mara Museo has been celebrating Slow Art Day for a decade in the Basque country, The‬ Altes Museum‬‭ (English: Old Museum), a UNESCO World‬‭ Heritage Site in the heart of Berlin’s‬‭ museum island, holds their second Slow Art Day tomorrow.

The‬‭ Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art‬‭ in Athens‬‭ also holds their second Slow Art Day while‬‭ The AGO‬ in Toronto‬‭ , one of the largest museums in North America,‬‭ hosts their‬‭ 10th‬‭ Slow Art Day.‬

Australia has 11 participating museums, galleries and hospitals. The first Slow Art Day is being hosted at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (hosted by Slow Art Day pioneer, Carol Rossi).

There is so much happening all over the world, it’s impossible to summarize effectively.

But you can check out our 2024 Annual Report to get a sense of the range of activities from last year (and get inspired for this year).

Have a great 15th Annual Slow Art Day.

This is certainly a year we all really need to slow down, look at and love art, and love each other.

– Phyl, Ashley, Jessica Jane, Johanna, and Maggie

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