From time to time, we post short articles from Slow Art Day hosts. The article below is by veteran Slow Art Day host, Paul Langton. A rainy day. I am early for an appointment. An opportunity to go to a…
by Tom Clavin
Published in Manhattan Magazine: December 2012
Don't race through that museum tour: Take your time, take it easy, and take it all in. At least, that's what the Slow Art movement would like you to do. Here, Tom Clavin explains the burgeoning campaign...
Read the full feature article on the Manhattan Magazine website
You think looking at an individual painting or sculpture for 10 minutes seems long? How about a year? James Gorman reviews a new book, The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature, in the New York Times Science Times today.…
I liked Thomas Micchelli’s review of To Be A Lady, a new show in Manhattan, for many reasons including that he begins the article by describing something we in the Slow Art Day movement often experience: it takes a few visits…
Metropolitan Museum of Art Director, Thomas P. Campbell, talks about the art of asking basic questions and of really looking at art. Of interest, he refers to an Italian art professor, a passionate teacher, who reminded him that “all art…
by Kyle Chayka
Published in ARTInfo: August 17, 2012
A 2001 study showed that visitors to the Metropolitan Museum looked at individual works of art for an average of just 17 seconds at a time, a visual habit called “grazing.” Even the most iconic artworks in the world can’t seem to hold our attention: The Louvre discovered that visitors look at the Mona Lisa for just 15 seconds on average. In the age of the moving image and endlessly updated World Wide Web, works of art in more traditional media don’t get the focus they deserve. Slow Art Day, a three-year-old initiative currently ramping up for its 2013 event, is looking to change all that with an orchestrated long art-viewing session at museums around the world.
Slow Art Day 2012 is today, Saturday, April 28. Events have already occurred in China, India, and all over Australia. As I write this, Slow Art Day events are happening in Rome, Paris, London, Copenhagen and all over Europe. Slow…
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