The Oceanside Museum of Art in California reports that they had a “wonderful” multi-sensory Slow Art Day 2019. The museum developed three self-guided stations aimed at slowly engaging multiple senses – designing multi-sensory experiences is a growing trend in the…
At the Ulster Museum, Slow Art Day 2019 guides took visitors through the works of Belfast-born artist Gerard Dillon, the British Vorticist movement, and then finished with a screening and discussion of a video art installation examining the political confusion…
According to the visitor experience team at Tate Modern, Slow Art Day 2019 was “fantastic.” They organized two one-hour slow looking sessions split between two artworks and, then, after the sessions, the team invited the visitors to come together for…
The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art focused on key pieces in the exhibit, The Rest of History, which explores groups (minorities, women, etc.) that have been underrepresented in history. Slow Art Day also coincided with Military Family Appreciation Day at…
Slow Art Day 2019 this year was celebrated in hundreds of museums and galleries from The Rubin Museum in NYC, to the Tate Modern in London, to a small museum in the rural Basque countryside, the Ur Mara Museoa. Elena…
Shanghai was one of the first Slow Art Day 2019 events to kickoff. We received their report at 4am NYC time (4pm Shanghai time). Joan Lueth, a longtime host and art teacher in Shanghai, said, “The work of artist Yang…
Slow Art Day events are happening all over the world from Shanghai to São Paulo, from Boston to Belgium, from Helsinki to Honolulu, and many other places. I’m returning to MoMA in NYC, the site of the first Slow Art…
BBC News just posted a feature article on Slow Art Day 2019 featuring us and some of our good friends like Susan Moore, art critic and founder of the Slow Art Workshop. Read the article here. Have a slow and…
Excitement is mounting around the world for the 10th annual International Slow Art Day. Here’s just some of the press coverage this week: The Art Newspaper (London and NY) – Relax and immerse yourself… the art of experiencing museums slowly…
As museum educators, many of Slow Art Day’s hosts are looking to create a space where visitors can engage with artworks in new ways. During this webinar led by Sara Birkofer from the Cincinnati Museum of Art on Feb 26,…