On April 10th, the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART) in Rovereto, Italy, organized a virtual Slow Art Day event that focused on re-titling artworks based on participants’ emotional experiences of slow looking. Images of…
More than 110 museums* and galleries around the world are slowing down today – to create more inclusive environments that allow everyone to learn how to look at and love art. We are really excited about the many creative events…
In a terrific feature-length article published yesterday, the Washington Post writer Kelsey Ables covered slow looking, Slow Art Day, our message of radical inclusivity, and encouraged readers to sign up to one of the 90+ venues around the world for…
[Note: Slow Art Day 2021 is coming up Saturday, April 10 – read the 2020 report for ideas on how to design your slow looking events.] In this interview, Annalisa Banzi, Ph.D. (researcher in museum studies, psychology and neuroscience at…
Our 2020 report is now available for you to review! Read it and get inspired by how educators around the world engaged the public during the pandemic. Also, get practical tips for designing virtual events. A few highlights from 2020:…
As we approach the end of this year, the Slow Art Day HQ team extends a big thank you to all Slow Art Day 2020 hosts and participants around the world. 2020 obviously hasn’t been what anyone expected or wanted.…
For their first Slow Art Day, the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley (MSV) in Winchester, Virginia, shared slow-panning videos of two artworks to Facebook. Click on the paintings below to watch the videos. The videos were accompanied by prompts, and…
For their third Slow Art Day, the Sint-Pauluskerk in Antwerp, Belgium, produced a slow-panning video of Peter Paul Rubens’ painting ‘The Flagellation of Christ’. Narrated by Wilfried Van den Brande, with text by Rudi Mannaerts, the video features the stunning…
For their second Slow Art Day, Railway Street Studios in Auckland, New Zealand, hosted a virtual event focused on Toni Mosley’s ‘CASE: Allegory’ series of art, which was inspired by the simple question: ‘what’s your baggage?’ As a result of…
For their second Slow Art Day, the Mississippi Museum of Art shared a slow-panning video of Vincent van Gogh’s “Daisies, Arles” (1888). The video featured close-ups of the painting alongside commentary by Victoria Meek, Associate Curator for Family and Studio…