Slow Art Day founder Phil Terry was recently interviewed by Isaac Kaplan for Artsy Editorial. The editorial delves into the experience of looking at art, the length of time required to look at a work of art in order to “get” it,…
In November, Slow Art Day founder Phil Terry partnered with the All Stars Project to bring a group of youth and community members to El Museo del Barrio in New York for a day of slow looking and discussion. Phil…
We’re starting the countdown to Slow Art Day 2017 – it’s just seven months away! 11 venues in the US, UK, France, and Belgium are leading the charge and are among our first hosts for 2017. We’re excited to welcome new…
A report from host and museum educator Nina Montijn in Amstelveen, Netherlands: We had a great Slow Art Day at the Cobra Museum for Modern Art! In three organized art walks, visitors were challenged to look slowly, to genuinely take…
In Chichester, England, Slow Art Day participants communed with five artworks in the cathedral and bishop’s palace. Host Naomi Billingsley, the Bishop Otter Scholar at Chichester Cathedral, writes in her blog: “Although the Slow Art Day initiative is secular in…
We had a wonderful Slow Art Day at HAM Helsinki Art Museum! People occupying the floors of the big gallery to draw on a huge paper together (some even for hours!), DJ playing songs fitting the day’s theme through headphones…
From Canberra, Australia, Annette Twyman of the National Portrait Gallery reports “great success” on Slow Art Day: The participants, all strangers to one another, took their stools, floor plans and notebooks and headed into the gallery space. After 15 minutes…
At Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen, Ireland, a small, enthusiastic group celebrated Slow Art Day by becoming one with the art. They immersed themselves in the setting for performance artist Amanda Coogan’s durational work, Spit, Spit, Scrub, Scrub.…
Check Instagram for all the amazing photos coming in from around the world for Slow Art Day 2016 – In the meantime, Slow Art Day Shanghai just reported via email (Instagram is not available in China): We had a wonderful…
In Norwalk, Connecticut, participants in Slow Art Day will examine WPA murals in the city’s Maritime Aquarium. After close, leisurely looking at works by Alexander J. Rummler, docents from the Arts Commission will lead discussions of each. Norwalk has the…